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CONTENTS 



I. OF THE GENEALOGIES OF FAMILIES AND RACES WHO RESIDED 
IN SHERBORN, HOLLISTON, MEDWAY AND SOME OTHER TOWNS. 

A. Adams p. 1; Abby p. 10; Alby 10 ; Allen 10 ; Alverson 10 ; Amsden 10. 

B. Bacon 10; Babcock 10; Baker 11; Ball 12; Bancroft 12; Barbour 12; Barret 

14; Barron 14; Bartiett 14 ; Bass 14; Batchelder 14; Bates 14; Battle 14; 
Battelle'* 14 ; Beals 14 ; Bedlam 14 ; Bickford 15 ; Bigelow 15 ; Blanchard 
16; Bond 16; Bragg 16; Breck 16 ; Brewer 18 ; Briant 18 ; Bridges 18 ; 
Brown 18 ; Buckmaster 19 ; Bullen 19 ; Burbank 21 ; Bullard 22 ; 
Butler 58. 

C. Chaddock 58 ; Chamberlain 58 ; Church 59 ; Claflin 59 ; Clark 59 ; Cleale 62 ; 

Cobb 62; Cole 62 ; Collar 62; Coolidge 62 ; Corbett 65 ; Cousins 65 ; Crack- 
bone 66 ; Cragrin 67 ; Crossman 67 ; Curtis 67 ; Cushing 67 ; Cutler 67. 

D. Dana 71; Daniel 71; Davis 74; Day 74; Death 74; Dewing 75; Dickinson 

75 ; Dix 77 ; Doane 78 ; Dowse 78 ; Durant 79. 

E. Eames 79; Edward 81; Emerson 81; Esty 81; Esterbrook 81; Evens 81; 

Everett 81. ^~ 

F. Fairbanks 82; Fassett 85; Fisher 85; Fisk 85; Fitch 8/; Force 89 ; Foristall 

89 ; Foster 89 ; Francis 90 ; Frost 90. 
( i. Gardner 90 ; Gassett 90 ; Gibbs 90 ; Gleason 90 ; Godard 91 ; Golden! alias Gould- 

ing 91 and 94 ; Goodhue 92 ; Gookin 92 ; Grant 94 ; Greenwood 94 ; Grout 

96; Guy 95. 
H. Hall 95 ; Harding 95 ; Harrington 99 ; Hart 99 ; Harris 99 ; Haven 99 ; Hawes 

99 ; Hayes 100 ; Hemenway 100 ; Hero 100 ; Hill 100 ; Hiscock 105 ; Hooker 

105 ; Houghton 106 ; Hunt 106 ; Hunting 106 ; Holbrook 107. 
J. Jennings 155 ; Johnson 155 ; Jones 156. 
K. Kendall 157 ; Kenny 158 ; Kibbe 158 ; Kilton 159 ; Kimball 159 ; Kingsbury 160 ; 

Knowlton 160. 
L. Lane 160; Lawrence 160; Layland, alias Leland 160 ; Learned 170, Lee 309 ; 

Lincoln 171 ; Littlefield 171 ; Locke 173; Loverain, alias Lovering 173. 
M. Maccane 174 ; Madden 174 ; Mann 174 ; Marsh 174 ; Marshall 175 ; Mason 175 ; 

Maverick 176; Maxwell 176; Mellen 176; Merrifield 176; Messenger 177; 

Metcalf 177; Miller 177; Millins 177; Mills 177; Moor 177; Morse 178; 

Muzzy 184. 
N. Newell 184 ; Newton 184 ; Nichols 184 ; Norcross 184 ; Nurse 184. 
( ). Otis 184. 
P. Palmer 184 ; Park 184 ; Parker 185 ; Parkhurst 185 ; Partridge 185 ; Payson 

190 ; Perry 190; Phips and Phipps 195 ; Pierce 202 ; Pike 202 ; Plimpton 202 ; 

Polly 203 ; Pond 203 ; Porter 203 ; Pratt 203 ; Prentiss 204 ; Paul 206. 
R. Ramsdell 206; Richardson 206; Richards 210; Rider 210; Rockwood 211; 

Russell 231. 
S. Sanger 232; Sawin 239; Sheffield 240; Shepard 241; Simons 241; Slocum 

241; Smith 241; Sparrowk 242 ; Stanford 242; Stanton 242; Stedman 212; 

Stewart 242; Stone 242; Storrs 244; Stow 244; Straten 244; Stroud 245; 

Sumner 245. 
T. Tay 245 ; Tenny 245 ; Tombling 245 ; Travis 245 ; Tucker 246 ; Twitchell 246. 
U. Underwood 251. 
W. Waight 252; Wait 253; Wair 253; Walker 253; Wallis 253; Ware 253; 

Warren 255; Watkins 255; Wcnzel 255; Wheaton 255; Wheelock 257; 

White 257; Whiting 257 ; Whitney 257 ; Wight 260 ; Williams 260; Wilson 

260 ; Winship 260 ; Wiswall 260 ; Wood 261 ; Wyeth 264. 



II. 01 ! Ill HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

The location, boundaries and size of the township p. 265 ; Originally possessed by 
the Nipmuek Indians id : Their history id — 266; Exploration of the country bv the 
English 267 ; Early Grants of the General Court 267; Indian deed of such ' 
Price paid for the township 271 ; Original state of the country 272 ; Origin and history 
of the English settlement 273 ; Origin of the town 275 ; Its original form 277 ; Origin 
of its name id ; Proceedings of the proprietors and G. Court id ; Indian war 278 ; The 
2d Committee of the G. ('. visit S. 279 ; Their report id; Place first agreed on for 
the meeting-house id ; A third Committee from the G. C. determine on another 
place 281 ; Social Compact of the planters 282 ; Agreement on an exchange of lands 
with Natick 283 ; Difficulties in the town 284 ; A 4th Committee of the G. C. 
appointed id ; Their report 285 ; A 5th Committee of the G. C. chosen to " govern 
prudentials" id ; Call of llev. Daniel Gookin 286; His answer 287; Division of 
common lands 287 ; Persons admitted as inhabitants 288 ; Military company organ- 
ized id ; Grant of the G. C. confirmed id ; Enlargement of the town 289 ; Framing- 
ham incorporated id ; Organization of a church id ; First Grant of lands W. of 
Mendon 290 ; Division of these lands id ; Call of Rev. Daniel Baker 291 ; Rev. D. 
Gookin's letter 291 ; Rev. Mr. Baker's answer 292; His publications 293; List of 
persons rated in 1721, p. 294 ; Measures for rebuilding the meeting-house 296 ; Dis- 
agreement about its location 296 ; Petition for a division of the town 298 ; Sale of 
the school land 299 ; Call to Kev. Samuel Porter 305 and 299 ; Memorable mortality 
300 ; Call to Rev. Samuel Locke 301 ; Call of Rev. Elijah Brown 302 ; Proceedings 
in relation to the revolution 302-4 ; Ditto to Shay's rebellion id ; do. to the adoption 
of the Federal Constitution id; do. to the war of 1812 p. 306; Call of Rev. S. 
Townsend 307 ; His letter id ; Call of Rev. Amos Clarke 308 ; List of graduates 309 ; 
do. of Pastors 310 ; do. of Deacons id; do. Physicians 311 ; do. of Lawyers id; do. 
of Selectmen id ; do. of Town Clerks 316 ; do. of Representatives 317; Progress of 
population 318; Education 318; Geology id; Mineralogy 319; Lakes and Ponds 
320; Springs id; Streams id; Meteorology id; Soil and productions 321; Manu- 
factures and Stores id ; Ancient Garrisons 222 ; Cemeteries id. 



III. OF THE HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 

The situation and boundaries of the township 322 ; Its first settlement id ; Origin 
of the name of Jasper's Hill id ; History of the titles to the site of the village id. 
Indian name of "Winthrop's Lake 324 ; Indian claims extinguished id ; Incorporation 
of the town 325 ; Its size id ; First election of town officers id ; Resolve to build a 
meeting-house id ; Land given the town id ; The conditions of the grant id ; The 
common and graveyard liable to forfeiture id ; Gift of land for the first minister 226 ; 
Call of Rev. James Stone id ; Division of the town into school districts 327 ; Resolve 
to build three school-houses id ; Mt. Hillis Academy id ; W. part of the road from S. to 
the Cedar swamp vacated id ; Families in the S. W. part of the town annexed to 
Medway precinct id ; H. fined for not keeping a school id ; Meeting-house seated 
and the " seats dignified " id ; 4 men allowed pews 328 ; Great sickness id ; Officers 
of the army 330 ; Pastors id ; Graduates id ; Town Clerks 331 ; Representatives 332 ; 
Selectmen id ; Deacons 336 ; Population id ; Geology, Mineralogy and soil 337 ; 
Streams id ; Lakes, Cemeteries 338 ; Business id 339 ; Physicians 340 ; Lawyers id. 



PREFACE. 

The following Genealogies, originally prepared at different times, with variou 
degrees of minuteness and extent of research, and brought down to different dates 
were designed, and some of them proposed for insertion in the Genealogical Register 
This was°done under the impression that each article might appear continuously ii 
one vol. of that Periodical, and be as attracting and available as if published in an 
other form or connection. But on further information I find that the longer articles 
to gain admission, must be divided into several parts, inserted here and there, mixei 
with other historical and genealogical matter, and be delayed for a perilous time 
and even beyond the probable expectancy of life in some who have expressed mm 
interest in the publication. I have therefore decided to issue my collections in th 
following form, believing that this will prove more satisfactory than the one originall 
proposed. 

This change enhance:; the cost of publication without giving the subscribe 
an equal number of pages or amount of matter ; but this will be made up in th 
binding of the work, and, as it is hoped, in the greater satisfaction of finding, inserte 
continuously, in the same vol., not only the race, with which his name is arrangec 
but also, other cognate races through which in female lines he may derive his descer 
from other and different stocks. 

To those then who pledged their patronage to the other form of issue, will copie 
of this be forwarded at prices barely sufficient to cover the outlay, which has bee 
surprisingly great. This, if stated, all might not appreciate. Indeed, none but th 
experienced in this department of toil, perplexity and expense could be expecte 
to do so. But I have not labored without pay ; for the months and years of lonel 
seclusion devoted to the work have abounded with seasons of sweet communion wit 
departed worth, and delightful views of former days. Nor do # I send forth th 
humble and imperfect production without hopes of future reward ; for weak an 
treacherous as human gratitude is, I may gain her thanks from breasts where r< 
finement and humility dwell, for the introduction here given to forgotten ancestor 
honored of God in their day with a part in that mighty agency which is changin 
the condition of mankind and the aspect of the world ; to ancestors who cooperate 
to found the institutions in which we glory ; and who becpieathed to us an ope 
Bible and uncorrupted gospel, and followed us in their prayers which are no 
being answered in our happiest experience. 

Nor is this all. There is pleasure in the hope that useful history has bee 
snatched from oblivion, and landmarks pointed out for future and more successfi 
explorations ; that many will be moved to perfect and transmit their genealogy ; an 
that generations to come will be supplied with a Directory for finding their kindre 
of another sex, that they may decline alliances interdicted by nature and her Autho 
and be saved from the sin of defeating wholly or in part a chief object of the 
earthly mission. 

The Genealogies here presented are in all cases as complete to 1800 as the re< 
ords consulted, and far more so. Thousands of names are here recorded for th 
first time ; and thousands of others, on no public record, may yet be added in supple 
ments, if those noticing the omissions will report them. And are none of the: 
kindred or descendants interested to do so ? Will it not be an act of kindness t 
preserve evidence of their legitimacy ? and also of their descent from the remote: 
ancestor remembered ? The first edition of any Genealogical work is never withoi 
errors. This, with all the care I have le.-towed, must have them. These, it is hopec 
will be carefully and immediately pointed out in writing, that they may be hereafte 
corrected ; and as the Adams, Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood, Phipps and Sangc 
races arc designed to be continued, any of either of these races arc especially recpueste 
to report whatever needs correction or addition. ABNEIl MORSE. 

Sherboro, Middlesex Co.. Mass., Sept. 15, 1855. 



EXPLANATION. 



( in the left of DBmes and next to the left hand margin are two columns of Arabic 
figures : the right band column consisting of running numbers, and the left hand of 
rring numbers. The latter, if before a father's name, (and then it is ever less 
than the No. to the right of it) refers back to the same figures in the column of run- 
oing Nos. where his name occurs as a child. If the referring No. is before a child's 
name, ( ami then it is always larger than the No. to the right,) it refers onward to 
the same ligurcs in the column of running Nos. where he occurs as a father. Names 
haying no referring Nos. before them, are either traced no further, or they have their 
i dants arranged immediately below their names. 

Dates following the names of wives without the word awe? intervening, refer to her. 

Numerical letters before the names of children denote their No., which must not 
be eunfounded with the running numbers in Arabic figures. These numerical letters 
are dropped when the child becomes a parent. 

Small figures after namesmark their generations, their Puritan ancestor being ac- 
counted the first. 

? after a figure, denotes the reference not certain. 

'.'after a name, signifies that it is inferred from circumstantial evidence or doubtful 
records, or that it has not been traced. 



a. stands for aged, 
ab. " about, 

b. " born, 
bp. " baptized, 
Br. orbr." Brother, 



c. " 


corner, 


chh. 


church, 


ll. 


died, 


dg. 


daughter, 


f. 


father, 


fr. 


from, 


G. C. " 


General Court, 


G. S. " 


grave stone, 


gr. 


great, 


grd. 


grand, 


11. 


llolliston, 


h. or bus." 


husband, 



1. stands for lived, 



m. 


married, 


Med. " 


Medway, 


Medf. " 


Medfield, 


Mend. " 


Mendon, 


0. T. " 


Old Tenor, 


pr. " 


probably, 


r. 


residence or resided at, 


rm. 


removed to, 


rs. 


resides at, 


sis. 


sister, 


red. 


received, 


S. 


Sherborn, 


urn. " 


unmarried, 


w. or wf. " 


wife, 


W.Sh. " 


West Sherborn, 



yg. " young. 

Initial letters are put for the names of places immediately after they have been 
spelled. 

The practice of double dating between Jan. 1st and March 25th, — thus 1675-6, 
until the introduction of N. S. in 1752, is retained to prevent confusion, and enable 
families to compare and correct their dates. 

X. B. Prior to 1752, the civil year began in March, which was called the first 
month, April 2d month, often expressed thus, — 25 (2) i. e. 25th day, 2d month. 
To render I >. S. into N. S., the first month must be accounted the 3d, and ten days 
bo ad. led to all dates between 1582 and 1700, and eleven days to dates between 
L700 and 1752. For the single year 1600, eleven days must be added. 



ADAMS. 

1- 2l:p Qlbflttt, 1 the ancestor of a distinguished race by tbe name of Adams, came 
out of the marches of Wales, a frontier space on which English troops were 
accustomed to march to repress incursions, and cut off stragglers. 

2. Sir John Ap Adam, 2 Kt., styled also Lord Ap Adam, who, as a baron of the 

realm, was according to Chs. F. Adams, of Bos., summoned to Parliament 
from 1296 to 1307. He m. Elizabeth, dg. of John, Lord Gourney of Bev- 
erston, Glocester county, and bad 

3. Sir John Ap Adam, 3 who had Wm. Ap Adam, 4 who had Sir John Ap Adam, 5 

who was the father of Tho. Ap Adam." 

6. Tho. Ap Adam ,: m. Jane, dg. and heiress of Sir John Inge, by whom he had 

7. Sir John Ap Adam/ Kt., who m. Milesent, dg. of Sir Matthew Besvlls, Kt., had 

8. Sir John Ap Adam, 8 alias Adams,* who m. Clara, dg. and co-heir of Mr. Roger 

Powell, by whom he had 

9. Roger Adams, ,J who m. Jane, dg, of Ellyott, and had 

10. Tho. Adams, 10 who m. Marie, dg. of Upton, and had 

11. John Adams, 11 who m. Jane, dg. of Mr. Rennelegh, and had 

12. John Adams, 1 - who m. Catherine, dg. and heiress of Mr. Stebbing, and had 

13. John, 13 who m. Margerye, dg. and heiress of Mr. Squire, and had 

14. Richard, 14 who m. Margaret, dg. to Mr. Armager, and had 

15. Wm. 1 "' who m. , dg. of Boringoton [Y] and had 

1G. Henry Adams, 10 " who took his flight from the Dragon persecution, in Devon- 
shire? in England, and alighted with eight sons? near Mount Wolliston," 
formerly Braintree, now Quinsey. He d. 1 046 ; and when the ancient parch- 
ment from which the above has been taken, was discovered in England, his death 
was found entered with a date synchronizing with that on our records. He had 

24. 17. i. Henry, 17 b. 1604. 

52. 18. ii. Samuel, 17 Capt, d. 1666; s. at Chelmsford; was Commissioner, '67. 

35. 19. in. Joseph, 17 m. Abigail Baxter. 

20. iv. Thomas 17 settled at Chelmsford, was Commissioner for the court of C. '67. 

29. 21. v. Peter. 17 

41. 22. vi. Edward. 17 

49. 23. vn. Jonathan. 17 

23| viii. John, 17 who had a son Joseph, m. Margaret Eames, bad Daniel; 
ix. ? Christopher, 17 who was a petitioner for Warwick, with Henry, senr., 
Henry, jun., and brothers, in 1645, and who pr. returned to Engd. 



* 17. 24. Henry 17 Lt. removed from Braintree to Medfield in 1649, where he was Lt. 
of her training band, clerk of writs, representative 1659, '65, '74, and '75. 
His house was situated at the W. end of the town, near Clnrles R. He was 
the owner of several parcels of land in Medfield. In 1659 he drew 148 
acres situated about midway between Medway village and the former S. line 
of Hoi., and extending from Black Swamp W. to tbe Pond road. Tn 1660 
he purchased of Eleazer Lusher, of'Ded., his grant of 250 acres in Sherborn, 
with 12 acres of meadow, and was massacred by Indians at bis own door, Feb. 
21, 1675-6. His estate was inventoried at £407.6.5. [SnfF. Prob.] He m. 
Elizabeth Paine, 17 (8) 1643, who was wounded in Rev. Mr. Wilson's chamber 
by the accidental discbarge of a musket ; and d. Feb. 29, 1675-6. He bad 
1 



2 A 1) A M S . 

56. 24}. i Elea er, 5< 6) L644. 

ii. Jasper, June 23, ' 17, inherited land in Sherb. and d. an aged bachelor. 

in. Elizabeth, II. (9) '49, at Braintree, m. '68, Dea. John Harding. 
63. 25. iv. J( !m, J I v 1 I. '■"<-. at Medfield ; v. Henry, also Jly 14, '52, d. Jl^ 10, '53. 

26 vi M i 26, '54. 
105. 27. vi.. Ilrnrv, Nov. 19, '57. 
1 18. 28. vim. Samuel, Dec. 10, '62. 

21. 29. lVtrr. :; Bettled in Medfield at the beginning of the town, and in 1G59 drew 
101 acres in W. Med , the farm occupied by Joseph Curtis. It was ap- 
pra 23, 1090, at £12. [Surf Prob.] 

120. SO. i. Peter Dea., 1653; ir. Hannah. '55 ; in. Mary, '61. 
31. tv. Jona., '63 ; v. Ruth, '65. 
'■'•'J., vi. Joseph, '68, rni. to Canterbury. 
38. \ir. Samuel Dock, who practised in Medfield. 
S I. viii. Henry, '7:!. 

I'.'. 35. Joseph, 17 in. Abigail Baxter, dg. of Geo. Baxter, r. and had at Braintree 
i. Hannah, 1652, m. S. Savill. 
124. 36 ii. .Joseph, Oct. 21, L654, d. Feb. 12, 1736-7 m. Mary Cbapin, '82, d. 
'87, 2d, Hannah Bass, 
in. Abigail, ra. John Bass of li. 

130. 37. iv. John, Capt. 1661, d. prior to 1712, ui. Hannah 2d, Hannah, dg. of 

Anthony Checkley, Esq., r. Bos. was master of a vessel; v. Bethia, 1661, 
in. John Webb, of Braintree. , 
38. vi. Samuel, 1665 ; vii. Mary, 1667, m. Samuel Webb, 2d Samuel Bass. 
149. 39. viii. Peter, 1669, m. Mary Webb, '95. 

40. ix. Jonathan, 1671 ; x. Mehitable, 1078, m. Tho. White, of B. 



22. 11. Edward, 17 m. Lydia , s. in Medfield ; drew lots as the lands were as- 
signed, and in 1659 a lot of 102 acres in W. Med. 2-3 m. N. of the Cong. 
t 'Mi. in W. Med , extending from the Old Pond Road W. to the old IIol. line, 
which seems to have been assigned to his son John. He had, I. Lydia, 1653. 
12. n. Jonathan Dea., 1655. 
57. 43. m. John, '57 ; iv. Elizabeth, '58 ; v. Sarah, '60. 
II vi. dames, '61, settled in Barrington, R I. 

45. vn Henry, settled in Canterbury, pr. m. Patience , and had at Med. 

1. David, 1692 ; 2. Hanlr, or Henry, '93; vm. Mehetabel, '65. 
16. i\. Elisha, 'fltl, settled in Bristol, R. I. 

47. .\. Edward, '68, s. at do. where, 1704, he executed a deed of land in Medf. 
18 xi. Blisbib, said to have s. at Bristol; xn. Bethia, '71 ; xiii. Bethia, 
'72 ; xiv. Abigail, '74; xv. Miriam, '75. 

28. 19. Jonathan 17 Dea. m. Elizabeth ; r. Medf'd, drew 84 acres in W. 

Med. '59, a few rods N. of his brother Edward's. His estate was invento- 
ried 1691, when he had land and buildings W. of Chs. R. ; he had 
i Elizabeth, 1606 ; n. Sarah, '67 ; in. Infant, '69 ; it. Jona. '70 ; v. Jona. 
'71 ; vi. Jasper, '73. 
51. vn. Jona., 79 ; vm. Mary, 1681 ; ix. Lydia, 1689. 



156 



2. Samuel 17 settled in Chelmsford, and had — 53. i. Benj. ; 54. ii. Joseph. 

2-H. 55. Eleazer, m. Elizabeth , r. Medfield, had i. Elizabeth, 1672; 

56. ii. Eleazer, '73. 



43. 


57. 


179. 


58. 




59. 


181. 


60. 


1941 


. 61 


267. 


62. 


152. 


63. 



ADAMS. 3 

John, 18 m. Deborah, 2d Susanna, had at Medfield. 
t. Eil ward, 1682, 'who fir. R. I. sold land to John Richardson at Med. 
ii. John, '84. 
in. Daniel, '86. 
iv. Eleazer, '87. 
v. Obadiah. 
vi. Jona. 

64. vn. Tho. by 2d wf. 1695, pr. s. in Amherst ; Tin. Susanna, '97. 

65. ix. Jeremiah, '99, s in Brookfield. 

66. x. Abraham, 1701, s. in do. ; xi. Bethia, '02, m. Tim. Stearns of Fram. '28. 
228. 67. xii. Phineas, '05 ; xm. Hannah, '07 ; xiv. Esther. 

25. 68. John, 18 m. Michael , and had at M. 

i. Samuel, 1684 ; n. Mary, '87 ; in. Patience, '90 ; iv. Ruth, '91 ; v. Jo- 

siab, '93 ; VI. John, '95 ; vn. Isaac, '97, m. ? Lydia , and had at Med. 

Haali, 1745; MoUy, '4G; Lydia, '49; vnr. Richard, '99; ix. Joshua, 
1701 ; x. Abigail, '02 ; xi. Bethia, '04-5 ; XII. Michael, '06-7. 

26. 75. Moses 13 probably inherited his father's land, in Sherborn, situated on 

Wennekecning Brook, and now in Hoi. He seems to have had his house lot 
of 20 acres assigned him on Chestnut Brook, where he undoubtedly lived. 
He was tythingman 1696, and selectman 1701, drew land in Douglas 1715, 
an.l d. 1724. He m. Lydia Whitney, b. Jly. 3, 1657, and d. May 27, 
1724, dg. of Jona. W. of Watertown, by w. Lydia Jones, and had — 

84. 80. i. Benoni, Nov. 3, 1681 ; n. Lydia, Feb. 2, '84, m. John Fisk, Jly. 31, 
1706 ; in. Elizabeth, Sep. 18, '86, d. June 17, '89 ; iv. Hannah, Feb. 8, 
'88, d. Jly. 21, 1718, m. Nathl. Fi.sk, Jan. 16, 1706; v. Elizabeth, Oct. 
25, '89, m. Daniel Rider, May 16, 1711. 

88. 81. vi. Moses, Nov. 26, '91, d. prior to 1730. 

88£. 82. vn. James, Jly. 7, 1693. 

91. 83. vin. Isa:c, Mar. 4, '95, d. June 5, 1730 ; ix. Abigail, Sept. 7, '97, m. 

Nathl. Perry. 

80. 84. Benoni, 19 m. Mary, r. in Hoi. and drew land in Doug. 1715 and '30. 

92. 85. i. Asa, Mar. 15, 1725. 

86. ii. Daniel, Jan. 21, '27 ; in. David, Aug. 6, '29, d. Sept. 17, '29. 

87. iv. Isaac, Dec. 15, '33 ; v. Sarah, Mar. 6, '35. 

81. 88. Moses, 19 m. Deborah Sawin, Mar. 27, 1716, r. S. and had, i. Moses, Dec. 

14, 1716, d. Dec. 17, '16 ; n. Moses, Feb. 27, '20, d. Sept. 4, '21 ; 
in. Moses, who d. Jly. 23, '50, a. 35, m. Lois Haven, Nov. '44, settled in 
Fram. and had Moses Rev. A. M. Oct. 16, '49, gad. '71, H. C.,s. at Acton, 
'77, m. Abigl. Stone, of Fram., and d. Oct. 13, 1819, the f. of Moses 
(Har. U. 1797,) Joseph, A. M.,(H. U. 1803,) and Josiah, A. M. (1801, H. 
U.,) a Lawyer at Fram. and author of the Genealogy of the Havens. 

82. 88^. James, 19 m. Abigail Hill, dg. of John H , was selectman 1725, r. S.,had 
94. 89. i. James, Mar. 13, 1714-15 ; n. Abigail, Mar. 3, 1717, m. Saml. War- 
field, Mendon, Mar. 13, '33 ; in. Elizabeth, Sep. 4, 1719, m. Elisha Rock- 
wood, of Groton ; IT. Hannah, Jan. 21, '23-4. 

100. 90. v. Moses, Apl. 27, '26; vi. John, Sept. 8, '28, d. June 21, '44. 

83. 91. Isaac, 19 m. Martha , who m. 2d Benj. Grpen, of Mend., Oct. 26, '33. 

Isaac had by her at Hoi., i. Martha, Jly. 10, 1723 ; n. P]lizabeth, Jan. 17, 
'24-5; in. Abigail, Mar. 4, '26-7 ; iv. Hepsebatb, June 8, '29. 



ADAMS. 



86. 92. A -;: m. llmli Parker, June 29, 1740, and bad at H., i. Mary, Sept. 2, 
L750 ; ii. Asa, Jan. 25, '53 ; 
.,.; ,,,. ,\-i. \ , 6, ' >; iv. Ruth, June 19, '57; v. Lois, Jan. 31, 'GO. 

Mi. mi Jan ... ,,,. i:< I a, r. S. rm. Dublin, N. H. ; i. John, m. Mary Bobbins, 

Jan. 25, 177 1. r. Nelson,N. H.j n. Susanna, Sep. 20, 1740; in. Susanna, 
Feb. I:;. 'II -5; rv. James, Nov. 8, '40 ; v. Rebecca, Aug. 12, '48; vi. 
il, Aug. 2, '50 ; vn. Samuel, Dec. 30, '52 ; vui. Benoni, Dec. 31, '54; 
ix. Moses '.' , 



90. 



in. 



L00. Moses, m. Ilepsebath Death, r. S. and Dublin, and pr. 2d Mary — 
[.John, Feb. 28, 1751-2, at S.;n. Ilepsebath, Dec. 8, '61, at S. ; 
Abigail, June 23, '65, at Dub. by 2d wife Mary; iv. Hannah, Feb. 8, '65; 
\. Moses, Nov. 10, 'G8; vi. James, Apl. 23, '70; vii. Samuel, Dec. 10, 
73; mi. David, Apl. 2, '75; ix. David, Dec. 25,78; x. Jesse, Feb. 
17, '81. 

*J7. 105. Henry, 1 " m. Prudence Frary, a woman of cherished memory, b. Aug 20, 
1662, d. 1750, " having seen the 5th generation." She was the daughter of 
John P. of Medf , by w. Elizabeth (Adams) Harding, and the niece of Dea. 
Theophilus F. of Boston, Lt. and commissary in Philip's war. They had 
i. Prudence, 19 Apl. 10, 1683. m. Joseph Morse, of Sberb., Apl. 14, 1702, 
and was the great grandmother of my father, who well remembered her, and 
handed down a high character of her. She d. Feb. 23, 1772. Her remains 
were exhumed, 1854, and reintered with those of ber husband and his 
father, Cpt. Joseph M., and mother, Mehetabel Wood, in the central ceme- 
tery in Hull. ii. Hannah, 1685. 

109. 106. in. Tho., I9 lG88. 

111. 107. iv. Jeremiah, 19 '91 ; v. Elizabeth, '93 ; vi. Sarah, '97. 

114. 108. mi. Henry/ 1 1702. 

106. 109. Tho. 19 m. Mary, r. Medf. i. Mary, 1711; n. Hannah, 1712; in. 

M.ny, 1714; iv. Tho., 20 1725, d. Jly. 13, 1811, a. 86, the father of Mrs. 
Hannah Adams," 1 the historian. 

107. 111. Jeremiah, 19 m. Rebecca, 2d Elizabeth, r. Medway. 

233. 112. i. Elisha, Esq., 1719, ; n. Elizabeth, 1728, ; in. Enos, 1733, at M. 

108. 114. Henry, 13 Esq., m. Jemima Morse, dg. of Hon. Joshua M., of Medfield, 

and sister of Rev. Dr. Ebenezer M., of Boylston, r. Medfd., had : 

234. 115. i. Amos"" A. M. Rev., Sep. 1, 1728, m. Elizabeth Chauncey, dg. of the 

eminent Rev. Dr. Cbs. C, of Boston, and 2d Mrs. Abigail Moars, Feb. 15, 
177"; settled as pastor of the. 1st cbh. in Roxb. ; was an impressive 
preacher and an accomplished scholar ; wrote much, and published 2 vols, oc- 
tavo of his discourses. He d. Oct. 5, 1775. (See Elliot's Biog. Die.) 
ii. Sarah, Dec. 30, 1730; in. Elizabeth, Sept. 21, '32; iv. Enoch, June 
4, '34, d. Jly. 9, 1811, m. Eunice Wight; v. Elizabeth, Aug. 1, '36, 
d. Dec. 11, 1822, m. Oliver Adams, of Med. ; vi. Jemima,Apl. 11, '40, d. 
Oct. 27, 1814, m. Joseph Lovell, Esq., of Med.; vn. Lydia, Nov. 25, 
'41, m. Dea. Wm. Parkman, of Townsend, '66; vui. Elijah, Esq., Nov. 

14, '43, d. Apl. 4, 1823, m. Cheney; ix. Keziah, March 30, '47, d. 

Apl. 7, 1812, m. Doct. Isaac Holt, of Killingly, Ct. ; x. Sophia, March 3, 
'49, d. Apl. 14, 1826, m. Dea. Esek Marsh, of Holl. ; xi. Henry, Aug. 
11, '54, d. Dec. 28, 1758. 



28. 118. Samuel, ra. Mary, had at Medfd., i. Joshua, 1710. 



ADAMS. O 

80. 120. Peter Dea. m. , had at Med., i. Rachel, 1680. 

136. 121. ii. Joseph, settled in Mcdway ; in. Peter, 1684, settled in Franklin; 

iv. Ebenezer, 1693 ; v. Joseph and Catherine; vi. Experience, 1695-6, d. 

Mar. 25, 1731, in. Samuel Daniel, of Med. 
234^.123. vii. George, 1699, settled at Med. 

36. 124. Joseph, m. Mary Chapin, 2d Hannah Bass, prior to 1688 r. Braintree, 

had i. Mary, 1683, m. Ephro. Jones, of B. ; II. Abigail, 1684, m. Seth 

Chapin, of Mendon. 
138. 125. in. Joseph, Bev. A. M., June, 1688, (H. C. 1710,) d. Msy 20, 1784, 

r. Newington, N. H. 
142. 126. iv. John Dea, 1691, d. May 15, 1761, m. Susanna Boylston,d. May 25/61. 

127. v. Samuel, '94, m. Sarah Payne. 
237. 128. vi. Josiah, '96, m. Hanh. Thompson, and s. at Mendon ; vn. Hannah, 

'98, m. Benj. Owen, of Braintree ; vm. Ruth, 1700, m. Rev. Nathan Webb, 

of Uxb. ; ix. Bethia, 1702, m. Ebenezer Hunt, of "Weym. 

146. 129. x. Ebenezer, Cpt., '04, s. in Lunenburg. 

37. 130. John, Cpt., m. Hanh. , 2d, Hannah Checkley, r. Boston, had i. 

Hannah, Jan. 24, 1685, m. Samuel Holbrook of Bos. [See Holbrooks, Pt. 
1, Ch. 1, No. 53.] ii. John, Sept. 28, '87, pr. the f. of John, jun., who 
m. Elizabeth Holbrook, of Bos., 1759. [Id. No. 70.] 

147. 132. hi. Samuel, Esq., May 12, '89,; iv. Joseph, Dec. 20, '95 ; v. Mary, 

Dec. 20, '95, m. Samuel Jones, of Bos. ; vi. Tho., Mar. 29, 1701 ; 
vn. Abijah, May 11, 1702, m. Deb. Cutler. 

121. 136. Joseph, m. Mary, and had at Med. (did he rm. to Chemsford ?) i. Mary, 
1705; n. Joseph, 1707; in. Rachel, 1709; iv. Hannah, 1711 ; v. Ruth, 
1712 ; vi. Experience, 1716 ; vn. Abigail, also 1716. 

125. 138. Joseph, Rev. A. M. m. r. Newington ; had i. Benj. ; n. Joseph, M. D.; 
141. in. Ebenezer. " Of this family is the inventor of the famous Adams 
Printing Press." 



126. 142. John, m. Susanna Boylston, r. Braintree ; had, 

i. John, LL. D., the 2d President of U. S. ; n. Elihu, who settled at Brain- 
tree ; in. Peter, Esq., who s. at Boylston and Braintree. 

129. 146. Ebenezer 19 Cpt., m. Anne Boylston, r. Braintree, had i. Peter 20 ; n. 
Ann 20 ; in. Boylston 20 ; iv. Ebenr. 20 ; v. Rev. Zabdiel, 20 of Lunenburgb, b. 
at B., Nov. 5, 1739, d. Mar. 1, 1801 ; vi. Micajah. 20 

132. 147. Samuel, Esq., m. Mary Fyfield, Apl. 12, 1713, r. Bos., had 
148. Samuel Adams, the Patriot and Gov. of Mass. 

39. 149. Peter, m. Mary Webb, r. Braintree, had i. Peter ; n. Jedediah, A. M., 
Rev., settled in Stoughton, and bad Peter, Esq., of Stough. 

63. 152, Jona. m. Dorcas, had at Med., i. Isaac, 1719; (did he rm. to Dublin?) 
ii. Mary, 1722; in. Keziab, '25; iv. Silas, '28; v. Lydia, '31; vi. Joel, 
'33 ; vn. Keziah, '35 ; 
229. 155. vm. Jona., '37. 

51. 156. Jona. ? m. Tbamezin Sheffield, dg. of Wm. S. sen., b. May 25, 1673; 

i. Thamezin, 1699; n. Hannah, 1701; 
159. 157. in. Ezekiel, '05; iv. Jona., Cpt. '09. 



6 ADA M S 

157. 159. Ezekiel, m. Bethia', r. Med. ; i. Benoni, 1730 ; n. Thamerson, '31 ; in. 
Ezekiel, '35, at Med. ; iv. Nathan? at Medf. ; v. Ezekiel?; vi. Gershoni ? 

158. 104. Jona., Opt. m. Patience , r. Med. ; i. Rachel, 1733 : 

100. 105. ii. Oliver, '38. 

105. 100. Oliver, m. Elizabeth Adams, r. Med. ; i. Jona., 1701 ; n. Oliver, '02 ; 
171. 109. m. Jasper, '07; 

174. 170. iv. Silvanus, '09 ; v. Elizabeth, '73 ; m. Edward Clcaveland, of Charlton ; 
vi. Anm. m. Joseph Richardson. 

109. 171. Jasper, m. Anna, r. Med. ; i. Jasper, D. D., Aug. 27, 1793, who was 
prof, of lin. in B. IT., pres. of Genev. Col., author of a treatise on Politic. 
Economy, and d. in S. C. ; n. Elizabeth ; in. Bowen, resides in S. ; 
iv. Julia (d.,) m. Horatio Mason, Esq., of Med. 

170. 174. Silvanus, m. B.uth, r. Med. ; i. Fanny, 1794; n. Walter, '99; in. Jo- 
soph, 1808; iv. Silvanus, 1807; v. John", 1813. 

58. 179. Edward, said to have settled in Milton ? i. Edward, settled in Milton ; 
ii. John, do. do. ; in. Seth, do. do. ; 

00. 181. Daniel, m. Sarah, r. W. Med.; 

182. i. Benj. ; n. Deborah, 1717; in. Sarah, '19; iv. Elizabeth, '20; 
243. 183. v. Daniel, '24; Daniel was of Bane, and had John '05, and Tim. 71; 
180. 184. vi. Tho., '2G; vn. Ruth, '29; m. Benj. Rockwood. 

192. 185. vni. Moses, '31 ; ix. Abigail, '30 ; m. Abraham Harding, r. Bent, Med. ; 

x. Tabitha, '38; m. John Littleneld, of Hoi. 

184. 180. Tho. m. Abigail, 2d Mary, r. Med. ; i. Daniel, 1750, s. in Rutland ; 

ii. Molly. '51 ; in. Sybil, '53 ; iv. Asa, '57, s. in Rutland, and rm. to Eden, 
Vt. ; v. Tho., Capt., '59. 

188. 190. Asa, m. Abigail, r. Med. ; i. Elijah, 1777 ; n. Asa, '79. 

189. 191. Thos., Capt., m. Susanna, 2 Meletiah, r. Med. ; sold the homestead where 

Malichi Bullard, Esq., resides, ab. 1803, and rm. to Barre ; I. Tho. 1779; 
ii. Amos, 1779 ; in. Hannah, '81 ; iv. Susanna, '83 ; v. A.very, '85 ; vi. 
Polly, '89; vn. Sibil, '87, m. Strickling; vni. Patridge, '91 ; ix. Betsey, 
'93 ; x. Amos, '94 ; xi. Nancy, '97. 

185. 192. Moses, Capt , m. Rachel Leland, inherited the homestead on Chicken 

Brook, in W. Med., had. ; i. Hepsebath, 1758 ; n. Rhoda, '01 ; in. Mary, 
'07 ; iv. Rachel, '09 ; v. Ruth, '72 ; 

194. 193. vi. Aaron, Capt. 

193. 194. Aaron, Cpt., m. Cate, inherited the homestead ; i. Moses, 1798 ; n. Si- 

lence, 1800 ; in. Aaron, 1801 ; iv. Elizabeth, '03 ; v. Joanna, '05 ; vi. 
Catherine, '07. 

01. 1941. Eleazcr, m. Margaret, r. Med.; i. Benj. 1715; n. Margaret, '17; 
198. 195. in. Eleazer, '20; iv. Mary, '22; v. Seth, '30; vi. Lois, '32; 

200. 197. vn. John, r. at Brookfield, returned to M. 

195. 198. Eleazer, m. Bathsheba, s. in Holl. ; I. Bathsheba, Feb. 18, 1745-6; n. 

Thankful, June 4, '48 ; in. Zachariah, June 3, '50 ; iv. Eleazer, Sept. 11, 
'51 ; v. Ithamer, Sept. 11, '54; 



A 1) A M S . ( 

•203. 199. vi. Eliakim, (jieu.,June 13, '5(5; 

1205. 200. vn. Timothy, 1758 ; 

204. 201. viii. Titus, also 17-)8; ix. Philimon, 1760. 

199. 203. Eliakim, Gen., m. Bathsheba Metcalf, 2d Han'h (Plympton) Bullard ; 

I. Eliakim 1780 ; n. Elephas, '82 ; in. Christopher, '84; iv. Bathsheba, '86 ; 
v. Eliakim, '88; vi. Sabra, '90; vn. Polly, '93; viii. Metcalf, 94; ix. 
Almira, 1802, by 2d w. ; x. Wales Hn., r. Hog Creek, Mich. 

201. 204. Titus, m. Anna Johnson, r. Barre, d. in Med. ; i. Lavina, Feb. 23, 
1780; ii. Eleazer, Dec. 29, '83; in. Anna, Jan. 14, '87; iv. Levi, Jan. 

II, '89 ; v. Susanna, Nov. 25, '90 ; vi. Charlotte, Aug. 31, '95 ; vn. Elea- 
zer, Apl. 28, '97 ; Tin. Tho. J., 1801. 

200. 205. Timothy, m. Mary, r. Hoi.; I. Ithamer, Oct. 30, 1784; n. Olive, June 

8, '86; in. Olive, July 13, '88 ; iv. Timothy, Nov. 4, '90 ; v. Henry, Jan. 
10, '93; vi. Rhoda, Oct. 8, '94, m. Tho. Dickenson; vi. Eleazer P., Auc 
21, '98. 

197. 206. John, m. Clark, 2d Zilpha Daniels, r. Brookfield and Med. ; i. 

John, ii. James, in. Joel, iv. Jude, v. Pbineas; vi. Elias ; 
235. 206^. vn. Hezekiah, (Kiah) inherited his homestead in Med. ; vm. Lydia; 

ix. Peggy ; x. Patty, by 2d wife ; xi. Eleazer. 

62. 207. Obadiah, m. Christian Sanford, of Mendon, Apl. 24, 1716, and s. near 
wid. Abigail Adams, on W. side of Chicken Brook, § in. N. of W. Med. chh. ; 
208. i. David, 1715, s. in Spencer; n. Abigail, '17; 

214. 209. in. Obadiah, '21; 

215. 210. iv. Nathan, '23 ; 
227. 211. v. Jesse, '27 ; 

226. 212. vi. Stephen, '29, s. where wid. Abigail Jl.,ts. W. of Chicken Brook ; vn. 
Christian, '32; vm. Hepsebath, '35 ; ix. Jemima, '37; x. Amos, r. Spen. 

209. 214. Obadiah, settled in Bellingham, and had 

242. 214^. i. Amos, who had Amos, David, Joseph and Allison ; II. Silas, who had 

Levi, Joel and Lewis; in. Samuel, who had Daniel, Obadiah, John, Samuel, 

William, and Silas. 



210. 215. Nathan, m. Keziah Thompson, and inherited the homestead £ m. S. of 
late Obadiah Adams, in W. Med., and had 

221. 216. i. Issacher, m. Mille Alden, s. in Hubbardston ; 

222. 217. ii. Nathan, 1751, m. Molly Adams, s. in Barre; 

223. 218. in. Elijah, 1753, m. Elizabeth Morse, s. in Hubbardston ; 

224. 219. iv. Obadiah, '58, (d. Jan. 1, 1823) m. Abigail Harding, r. Med. ; 

225. 220. -v. Beuben, '60, m. Azuba Jones, r. Hub. 

216. 221. Issacher, m. Millicent Alden, brought up by Eleazer Adams; i. Issa- 

cher, r. Jeffery ; n. Moses, r. Jeffery ; in. John, r. Hubbardston ; IV. Oba- 
1 diah, r. passim ; v. Huldah ; vi. Olive ; vn. Sally. 

217. 222. Nathan, m. Mary Adams, had at Barre, i. Keziah, July 7, 1773 ; it. 

Nathan, Oct. 12, '76, d. yg. ; in. Polly ; iv. Ruth; v. Lucinda, d. yg. 

218. 223. Elijah; i. Abner, r. W. Brattleboro' ; n. Elisha, r. Hubbardston. 

219. 224. Obadiah ; i. Persis, 1780 ; n. Keziah, '83, m. 1st Daniel Miller, and 



O ADA M S . 

2d Isaac Kibby; in. Israel, '85, m. Polly Johnson, and had 1. Polly, 1810, 
2. Willard II, '14; iv. Abigail, '87; v. Obadiah, '89, ra. Mary Johnson, 
from Worccs., had 1. Susan, 1817, 2. Roxana, '20; vi. Candice, '92. 

220. 225. Reuben, m. Azubah Jones, r. Hub.; i. Cate ; n. Simeon; in. Persis; 
iv. Keziah; v. Lucinda ; vi. Enoch; vn. Sampson, who with his father rm. 
to Westminster. 



212. 226. Stephen, m. Mary ; I. Sarah, 1773, m. Jesse Coombs, of Bell. ; n. Ezra, 
'75, m. Abigail Patridge, had Cyrus, Stephen, Ezra ; in. Stephen, 
1776, m. Catherine Patridge, dg. of Joel of Med., by w. Waitstill Morse ; 
iv. Jotham, '78, r. Med., had 7 or 8 chd. ; v. Eli, '79, m. Esther Harding, 
r. Readfield, Me. ; had Elizabeth ; Abraham, rs. Pawtucket ; Esther m. Dea. 
Horace Patridge, rs. Hoi. ; Albert, rs. Cambridge ; Asa, rs. Milton ; Amos, 
rs. E. Wareham ; vi. Mary, '81, m. Moses Hill, of Bell. ; vn. Christian, 
'83, d. urn. ; vin. Laban, Feb. 27, '85, d. 1819, at Bos. He built and kept 
the Adams House in B., m. Catherine Johnson, dg. of David J. of Chester, 
Vt., by w. Ede Bullard, dg. of Nathan B. by w., Ede Patridge, dg. of Jas. 
P. of Med. 



211. 227. Jesse is supposed to have settled in Holl., and to have had Jesse, who 
inherited his farm, m. Thankful Watkins, and had I. Levi, Oct. 23, 1773, 
kept a tavern on the turnpike 1 m. W. of W. Med. meeting-house, and left a 
bequest of $5000 to the chh. and cong'n who worship there ; n. Abigail, Nov. 
20, '75, m. Warren Cushing; in. Hannah, Jan. 29, '78; iv. Huldah, m. 
Sol. Cushing; v. Resigned, May 14, '80 ; vi. David, May 20, '81, r. Bos. 

67. 228. Phineas, m. Sarah Kingsbury, at Needh. Sep. 30, 1731, 2d Mehetabel, 
and had in Med. i. Sarah, 1733 ; n. Mary, '35 ; in. Phineas, m. Patience, 
and had Asahel, 1781 ; Phineas, '90 ; Patience, '92 ; Willard, June 19, 
'94 ; Lowell, Eeb. 21, '96, at H. ; vi. Moses, '38 ; v. Hannah, '42. 

158. 229. Jona., m. Catherine, pr. 2d w. Ama, r. Med. ; i. Thankful, 1760; 
231. 230. n. Micha, '62; in. Silas, '65, m. Lois , and had i. Joseph, 1788, 

and by 2d w., Patience , he had n. Silas, 1794 ; in. Jona., '97 ; iv. 

Samuel, 1804 ; iv. Catherine, '71 ; -v. Moses, 74 ; vi. ? Patience, 1781 ; 

vn. ? Jona., '86. 

230. 231. Micha, m. Mercy, had at Med. i. Joel, 1791 ; n. Rebecca, '92 ; in. 
Nabby, '94 ; iv. Edward, '98 ; v. John, 1800 ; vi. Patty, 1804, d. 1805 ; 
vn. Mary, 1807. 

183. 132. Daniel, m. Silence, had at Med. i. Horatio, 1777 ; m. Elizabeth , 

and had at Med. i. Charlotte, 1805; n. Elisha, 1,809; in. Silence, '12; 
iv. Emily, '14 ; v. Hepsebath, '13. 

112. 233. Elisha, 20 Esq., m. Rachel, had at Med. i. Abigail, 1744 ; n. Daniel 20 Rev., 
1747, d. Sep. 16, '78, at Watertown, red. A. B. at Har. Col. 1774, ord. at 
W. Apl. 29, '78 ; had Daniel, Mar. 26, '79, posthumous, who became a 
lawyer at Medfield, and d. there ab. 1853. 

115. 234. Rev. Amos 20 A. M., who was ordained at Roxb. Sept. 12, 1753, had by 
wife Elizabeth Chauncey, i. Elizabeth, 21 b. Aug. 2, 1754, and received to 
the chh. May 24, 1772, m. Rev. John Bullard, of Pepperill ; n. Amos, 
Nov. 3, '55; in. Henry, June 29, '58; iv. Chs.. Jan. 16, '60; v. Amos, 
Dec. 25, '62 ; vi. Tho., bap. Jly. 8,'64 ; vn. Joseph, Jly. 12, '67. 



ADAMS. 9 

123. 2341. George, m. Sarah, had at Med. I. Silence, 1724 ; n. Elizabeth, '26 ; in. 
Rachel, '28 ; iv. Sarah, '30 ; v. Experience, '32. 

206^ 235. Hezekiab, m. and had in Med. i. Seigniora, 1796 ; n. Juliann, '98 ; 
in. Landen, 1801 ; iv. Hiram, '03 ; v. Rhoda M., '05 ; vi. Laura, '08 ; vn. 
Silvena, '10. 



128. 237. Josiah, who settled at Mendon, was pr. the father of i. Josiah, who m. 

Sarah , and had at Mendon, i. Bethia, 1751 ; 

211. 238. n. Joseph, Doct, 1754, m. Sarah ■ , had at Mendon, i. John, 

Jan. 30, 1779, and Sally, Sept. 11, '80 ; in. John ; iv. Sally, Apl. 1, '59 ; 

v. Bethia, April 9, '62 ; vi. Benj., Dec. 18, '04 ; vn. Seth, Jan. 2, '68. 

238. 241. Joseph, m. Sarah, r. Mend., had i. John ; n. Sally ; in. Mary, Mar. 26, 

'83 ; iv. John, Jan. 29, '85, m. Sylvia , and had Sylvia July 2, 1806 ; 

v. Betsey, Sep. 2, '87 ; vi. Samuel Smith, Dec. 20, '89 ■ vn. Abigail, Apl. 

10, '92 ; vni. Seth Bead, Mar. 6, '96, m. Charlotte , and had Saml. 

Wash., Dec. 18, 1820. 

214^. 242. Amos had i. Allison, who m. Asenath , and had at Mend. i. Sally, 

Oct. 25, and d. Dec. 17, 1820; n. James, Feb/6, 1822. 

183. 243. Daniel, m. , settled in Barre, and had i. Peter, who r. in Oak- 
ham ; n. Daniel, who s. on a part of the homestead in B. ; in. Luther, who 
s. on do. in B. ; iv. John, m. Anna Kelley, r. Eden, Vt, had Timothy, Aug. 
10, 1789, m. Roxana Harrington, rs. Hoi., had Timothy H. Aug. 26, 1832, 
rs. um. in H. ; v. Timothy, who r. in Athol or Royalston. 

Jonathan Adams, born at Quincy 1752-6, settled in H., m. Jemima Hill 1776, and 
died in Med., aged almost 100 years, — a man of a charitable spirit and very 
great moral worth. He had in Hoi. i. Abner, Jan. 19, 1777 ; n. Cate, Jan. 
10, '79 ; in. Jona , May 25, '81 ; iv. Luther, Jan. 22, '84 ; v. Lemuel, 
June 5, '88 ; vi. Nancy, Feb. 21, '91 ; vn. Wm, b. ab. '93, m. Ruth 
Shumway, and r. Med. ; vni. Moses, Aug. 26, '95 ; ix. Mimie, Oct. 18, 
'97 ; x. More, Sept. 23, '99. 

Win. Adams, of Mendon, (pr. s. of James No. 44, or Elishib No. 48,) a proprietor 
of lands on Casco Bay, Me. forfeited to his heirs thro' neglect, d. in a fit at 
Medfield, ab. 1725, leaving children in their minority. His wife Joanna 
probably deceased before him. They had I. Wm., b. Sep. 19, 1719, who 
pr. was brought up in Hopk. ; n. James, June 6, 1721, who do. do., m. 
Elizabeth, and had at HolL, i. Daniel Emerson, Feb. 24, 1772 ; in. Elia- 
shib, June 9, 1723, who was brought up in Natick by Saml. Perry [No. 90,] 
settled on the S. W. side of Peter's Hill, in S., m. Hannah Morse, gru". dg. 
of Oapt. Joseph M. and had i. Mary, June 3, 1750, d. Sep. 8, '51 ; 

ii. Elisha? m. Sarah AVatkins, b. Aug. 6, 1757, dg of Andrew W. by w. 
Thankful Morse, had i. James, Oct. 14, 1780 ; s. in Hopk. ; 

in. Asa, b. ab. 1757, m. Elizabeth Kimball, had at S., i. Chs. Jly. 24, '85, 
drowned at Nahant um. ; n. Asa, Jly. 9, '87, d. yg. ; in. Sally, Nov. 7, 
'92 ; iv. Hannah, bap". Feb. 22, '95 ; iv. Wm., m. Persia Ware, Jan. 1, '80, 
who was b. Aug. 12, 1761, sis. of Rev. Dr. W. settled at West Sherbom, 
where Tim. Twitchel resides ; sold and rm. with his father to Hopk. He had 
i. Sally, Mar. 2, 1781 ; II. Henry, Aug. 29, '82, r. Orange ; in. Patty, 
Dec. 20, '84, ra. James Hill; iv. Polly, Ju. 14, '87, um. ; v. John, Feb. 
16, '92, rs. Littleton ; vi. Avery, Dec. 20, '94, committed suicide ; vn. 
•> 



10 ABBY, ALBY, ALLEN, ALVERSON, BACON, BADCOCK. 

Wm. Sept. 23, 1803, m. and d. without issue ; v. James, Oct. 8, 1767, d. 
Jly, 9, 1808, m. Lucy Heart, r. S., and had i. Cate, Mar. 14, 1790, m. 
Amasa Hawkins r. S. ; n. Betsey, Aug. 12, '91 j d. Sept. 18, '91 ; 
in. Polly, r. blind and deaf at. S. 



Obadiall Abby had at Holl., by w. Jane ' , i. Jane, July 14, 1734. 

i p i» i 

Benj. Alby, one of the first petitioners for Sherborn, was of Braintree, and does 
not appear to have ever been permanently settled here. He probably s. in 
Mendon, now Bell. A Benj. Alby was one of 7 members to constitute the 
Baptist chh. at Swanzy, at its organization in 1663. 



Nehemiah Allen, pr. the son of Nath'l Allen, in whose right land was as- 
signed in Doug., 1730; had by w. Mary , at S., i. Timothy, Sept. 5, 

1723; ii. Nehemiah, July 22, '24; ill. Hannah, July 29, '25; iv. Eli- 
phalet, Aug. 24, '27 ; v. Nehemiah, Oct. 17, '29 ; vi. John, Feb. 13, '31-2 ; 
vii. Jacob, Feb. 24, '33-4 ; vm. Abel, Feb. 20, 35-6 ; ix. Mary, Apl. 
16, '38; x. David, Dec. 23, '39; xi. Abigail, Dec. 23, '41. 

Seth Allen, w. Elizabeth, d. Nov. 11, 1767, 2d w. Mary Treadway, m. Apl. 27, 'G9 ; 
had at Holl. i. Samuel, Mar. 17, 1755, m. Mary Harwood July 30, '72; 

ii. Ebenr., Mar. 19, '58, m. Esther , and had Millery, Dec. 28, '80; 

in. Amos, Jan. 23, '63 ; iv. Chloe, June 12, '60 ; v. Jona., June 18, '72; 
vi. Seth, Mar. 14, '74, m. Sally Curtis, and had Emeline, m. Asa Sanger, 
r. S. ; Wm., m. Mary Heminway, r. H., and 8 other chd. ; vii. John, 
Nov. 8, '78, d. Jan. 25, '80 ; vm. Dolly, Apl. 9, '80, d. um., burnt to death 
at Milf. ; ix. Henry, rs. Philada. 



Simeon AlverSOn had at Holl. by w. Eunice , d. Oct. 12, 1780, i. 

Mary, Apl. 11, 1774 ; n. John, March 11, '79. 

Dexter Amsden, fr. abroad, s. in S., on the N. part of the ancient Holbrook farm, 
near the S. line of the old Leland place — having bought the same of Simon 
Mason, who bought it of the sons of Tim. Daniels, who bought it of Bedlow, 
fr. Weym., who purchased it of the last Holbrook, who inherited it. 



Joseph. Bacon, w. Abigail, occupied and sold to Ezra or Joseph Holbrook the 
place now Opt. Jacob Pratt's, and had Charlotte, Jan. 25, 1769 ; Arna, 
Jan. 16, '71 ; Joseph, June 19, '74 ; Abigail, May 12, '76. 



Robert BadCOCk, from Milton, was in S. Jan. 4, 1674-5, acting as a com- 
moner, and was chosen on a committee to treat with Capt. Gookin, &c, for 
an exchange of S. for Natick lands. His location here has not been ascer- 
tained. He pr. returned to Milton, or d. soon after. 

1. Ebenezer Badcock, was baptized at Dorchester, 5 (5) 1663, the son of Robert 
B., and pr. the gr. £rd. s. of James B., who was born in Essex Co., Eng., 158-, 
removed with the Pilgrims to Holland, and came in the ship Anne to Ply- 
mouth in 1623. Eben'r B. had a home lot assigned him Mar. 8, 1696, on 
the "W. side of W. Sherborn Meadow, where Wm. Leland resides ; m. Han- 
nah£«*»d* was selectman 1711 ; drew land in Doug. 1715, and d. Dec. 15, 
1717. He had i. Abigail, Mar. 5, 1686, d. June 28, 1740, m. John Le- 



BADCOCK, BAKER. 11 

land ; n. Hannah, Sept. 28, 1690 ; in. Hannah, Mar. 25, '91 ; m. 1st Benj. 
Learned, and 2d Eleazer Eider ; 

3. 2. iv. Ebenezer, Sept. 4, '97, d. Mar. 27, 1730-1. 

2. 3. Ebenezer inherited the homestead in S., drew land in Doug. 1730, m. Abi- 
gail Leland, gr. grd. dg. of his grd. aunt, the -wife of Henry Leland, scn'r, of 
S., and had i. Hannah, Apl. 27, 1723, d. Nov. 23, '28 ; n. Mary, Feb. 28, 
'24-5, m. Ephm. Perry ; m. Abigail, June 23, '27, m. John Sawin, r. 
Natick. 

5. 4. iv. Maliehi, Sept. 22, '29, d. Jly. 7, 1806. 

4. 5. Maliehi, m. Mary Holbrook, May 1,1755, inherited the homestead in S. 

Was selectman 1771, and had i. Hannah, Nov. 8, 175G, m. Stephen Pren- 
tice of S. it. Ebenezer, Jly. 20, '58, d. Mar. 24 1815 ; in. Amos, Apl. 
11, '60, m. Betty Gardner, 2d Wid. Bichardson, r. Princeton; iv. Maliehi, 
Apl. 28, '62, m. Anna Bullard, red. to the chh., and had Harriot, bap. 
May 13, '92; v. Mary, June 30, '64; m. Bela Greenwood, r. Dublin. 

13. 3. vi. Moses, Col., Jan. 8, '67 ; vin. Abigail, Apl. 25, '69, m. Joel Kendall, 

of Marl. r. Dublin; ix. Sarah, Oct. 4, '71, m. Azariah Ware, r. Newton, 
Barre ; x. Anne, Mar, 11, '74, m. Peter Bullard. of S. Worces. and Barre ; 
xi. Persis, Oct. 7, 76, m. Benj. Bullard of S. 

10. Ebenezer, May 20, 1785, m. Bhoda Woodard, who d. Dec. 14, 1840, a. 74, r.S. 
i. Caroline, Mar. 1, 1786, d. Feb. 26, 1833, no. Cyrus Barbour of War- 
wick ; n. Patience, Apl. 11, '88, at Dublin, m. Moses Leland, Oct. 25, 
1807, r. Templeton ; in. Anna, Feb. 25, '91, at D., m. Henry Patridge, r. 
Medfield ; iv. Ebenezer, May 15, '93, at D., m. Sylvia Jennings, 2d Mary 
Whitney, r. Walpole ; v. Sylvia Dec. 22, '98, at S., m. Joseph B. Flaggof 
S. ; vi. Mary, Dec. 17, 1802, at S., m.Tho. Bisphan, r. Natick ; vn. Mali- 
ehi, Dec. 17, 1802, m. Sally Kiruball, r. S. 

9. 13. Moses, Col., m. Aug. 22, 1780, Betsey Leland, 2d Sarah Perry, r. S.,had i. 
Becca, Jan. 4, 1790, m. Luther Leland of S. 

18. 14. n. Amory, Dec. 13, '93, m. Kebecca Dowse ; in. Dexter, Aug. 22, '96, 
m. Mary Hancock, rs. Bos. ; iv. Lowell, Alar. 18, 1801, m. Thankful San- 
ger, rs. Med. ; v. Mosea, Nov. 21, '06, m. Rhoda Carlton, r. Chs. T. ; vi. 
Rebecca E., Sep. 7, '12, m. Chs. Bigelow, r. S. ; vn. Moses C, Feb. 18, 
'14, m. Persis W. Hill, r. S. ; vin. Caroline, Sept. 18, '17, m. Henry W. 
Bullard, r. S. 

14. 18. Amory, w. Rebecca Dowse, r. S. had i. Rufus Leland, June 30, 1825, d. 

Sept. 19, '25 ; n. Amory Leland, Nov. 15, '26, r. um. at S.. a naturalist and 
taxidermist ; in. Eliza Dowse, Nov. 12, '29, m. John U. Morse. 



39. Rev. Daniel Baker, m. Mary Quincy, dg. of Hon. Edmund Q., whose 

distinguished race are sure of renown while New Eng. His. lasts. Mrs. Mary 

d. and Mr. B m., 2d, Rebecca Smith, and had Elizabeth, Mar. 16, 1715-16; 

Rebecca, May 2, 1721, by 2d w. ; Daniel, Dec. 8, 1722, who d. yg. 

The following notice is from No. 1425, fur May 20, 1731, of the Bos. News Letter : 

" Sherborn, May 14, 1731. Died here, the reverend and worthy Mr. Daniel 

Baker, pastor of this church, in the forty-fifth year of his age. He was born in Ded- 

ham, of religious and worthy parents ; had his education at Harvard College, in 

Cambridge, N. E. ; was ordained in the year 1712, assistant to the reverend and 

valuable Mr. Daniel Gooken, late pastor of this church. He married two worthy 



12 IULL, BANCROFT, BARBOUR. 

and virtuous gentlewomen. The first was Mrs. Mary Quincy, of Braintree, by whom 
he had one daughter, yet surviving ; the other Mrs. Rebecca Smith, of Boston, now 
his mournful widow, by whom he had several children, one of which only survives. 
He was a gentleman of bright natural parts, much improved by acquired knowledge, 
very pathetical in prayer, orthodox and powerful in preaching, tender of his flock 
and congregation, having always the cause of God and religion much at heart. His 
church increased greatly under his ministry. He was exercised with much afHic : 
tion, under which his patience and resignation were very signal, and notwithstand- 
ing which, he was very pleasant and affable in conversation. In his latter years he 
has been attended with uncommon indisposition of body, which, growing upon him, 
frequently interrupted him in, and sometimes wholly incapacitated him for, his work ; 
and at length had so much the mastery of him, as entirely to deprive him of the 
power of speech some days before his death. As he was much esteemed and beloved 
by his people in his life, so his death is much lamented by them and all that knew 
him. He was decently interred the 17th instant." 

The following extract from the Gen. Court records is illustrative of the care 
shown for his family : — 

" Veneus Die, 28 January, A. D., 1731. A petition of Rebecca Baker, widow, 
and relict of the Reverend Mr. Daniel Baker, late of Sherborn, in the county of 
Middlesex, clerk, deceased, in behalf of herself, and as guardian to the said de- 
ceased's daughter Rebecca, a minor, and of Edmund Quincy, Esq., guardian and 
next friend to Elizabeth, a minor, another of the said deceased's daughters, praying 
that they may have liberty (under such restrictions as are necessary and have been 
usual in such cases) to make sale of all or so much of the said deceased's real estate, 
as the Court, or such person or persons as they shall appoint, shall judge proper, 
for reasons mentioned. Passed in Council, viz. : In Council, January 6, 1731. 
Read, and ordered, that the prayer of this petition be granted, and that Edmund 
Quincy, Esq., with such as shall be joined by the honourable House of Representa- 
tives, be and hereby are appointed trustees for the widow and children of the Rev- 
erend Mr. Daniel Baker, deceased, and that they be empowered to make sale of so 
much of the real estate of the said deceased as they judge necessary and most for the 
benefit of the said widow and children ; and that the said trustees put out the pro- 
duce thereof to interest, for the use of the widow and children in equal parts ; the 
children to be paid their portions out of the principal as they come of age, or are 
married, and the other third part thereof to be divided between them after the 
widow's decease. 

" Sent down for concurrence. Read and concurred, and ordered^ that William 
Brattle, Esq., be joined in the affair." 



Abraham Ball, w. Martha , had at H., i.Lois. Dec. 26, 1732; n. 

Sarah, Aug. 29, '34 ; in. Mary, Aug. 29, '34 ; iv. Martha, Jly. 24, '37 ; 
v. Bathsheba, May 27 '40 ; Wid. Anne Ball, d. '98, at S. a. 70. 



1 . Nathaniel Bancroft, w. Mehetabel, had i. Mehetabel, Sep. 10, 1745, at S. 

1 ■«■ i — — ■ 

George BarbOUr, a Puritan of distinction, was early in Ded., and became one 
of the original proprietors and settlers of Medfield ; had by w. Elizabeth >^°^ y 
i. Elizabeth, d. 20, 12, 1642 ; n. Mary, 27 (6) 1643, d. 23. (9) 1643 ; 
in. Mary, 31, (11) '44; 
5. 2. iv. Samuel, 6, (11) '46, m. Sarah Millins, 7, (6) '76 ; 
9. 3. v. John, 13, (1) '49; vi. Elizabeth, 11, (2) '51, at Ded.; vn. Hannah, 
Apl. 16, '54, at Medfield ; 
12. 4. vm. Zachariah, Sept, 29, '56; ix. Abigail, Oct. 20, '59. 



BARBOUR. 13 

2. 5. Samuel, by w. Maria . had at Medfd. i. Maria, Feb. 20, 1675 ; 

n.* Samuel, 7, (11) '77 ; in. James, Dec. 25, '80 ; iv. Hannah, Sept. 
25, '83 ; y. Thos. July 4, '80 ; vi. Maria, May 28, '93. 

3. 9. John, by w. Abigail , had at M. i. John, Apl. 24, 1676, pr. rm. Mcn- 

don ; ii. Abigail, Apl. 20. '70 ; in. Elizabeth, Nov. 28, '81 ; iv. George, 

Dec. 5, '84, m. Ann , had John, Aug. 27, 1708, who m. Ilan'h, and 

had Abigail, Oct. 31, 1736 ; v. Abial, Sept. 12, 1689. 

4. 12. Zachariah m. Abial Ellis, Aug. 30, 1683, r. Medfd. ; i. Benoni, Sept. 9, '84; 
18. 14. ii. Zachariah, Oct. 1!), '85 ; 

21. 15. in. Joseph, Oct. 4, '87, d. Mar. 3, 1770 ; iv. Abiel, Oct. 4, '91 ; 
25. 1G. v. John, Oct. 12, '93, d. June 20, 1754 ; vi. Ruth, Mar. 5, '95; 

17. vn. Tho , May 2, '98 ; vin. Elizabeth, July 5, 1700 ; ix. Mary, May 2C, '03. 



14. 18. Zachariah, w. Deborah, r. Medfd., i. Zachariah, Feb. 10, 1718-19; n. 

Deborah, Nov. 8, '20 ; 
27. 20. in. Elisha, Nov. 23, '22, d. July 7, 1803. 



15. 21. Joseph, Dea., settled on the plain E. of Chicken Brook, in W. Medway, \ 

m. W. of Mucksquit school-house, m. Abigail Hawes, fr. Medfd., May 19, 
1726, and had i. Samuel, Mar. 23, 1727 ; n. Mary, Apl. 2, '29 ; 
23. in. Joseph, Apl. 23, '31, an eccentric but righteous man ; iv. Abigail, Mar. 
27, '32 ; v. Sarah, Jan. 27, '36 ; vi. James, May 4, '38 ; vn. Elizabeth, 
Oct. 30, '40 ; d. Sep. 24, '78. 

16. 25. John, w. Mary, d. Sep. 12, 1747, a. 63, 2d w. Mary Pond, fr. Wrenth., 

m. 1751, d. '54, r. Med. ; i. Abigail, Aug. 14, 1719, m. Asa' Richardson ; 
ii. Bathsheba, Apl. 7, '22 ; in. George, July 1, '24. 



20. 27. Elisha, m. Silence , d. Nov. 14, 1704, a. 77 ; settled on the farm of 

Cpt. Joseph Morse, deceased, and now owned by Walter Barber, in Sher- 
born, and had i. Zachery, m. Patience Whitney, '75, had Esther, '7G, and 
Olive, '78; n. Deborah, May 3, 1754, m. Tho. Greenwood, r. Winchendon; 
in. Sarah, Mar. 17, '56 ; m. Zibeon Hooker of S. and Newton ; 

31. 29. iv. Elisha, May 31, '58, m. Martha Bullard ; 

34. 30. v. Oliver, Jan. 26, '63, m. Nancy Bullard; vi. Silence, Oct. 18, '65; m. 
John Clark, r. S. 

29. 31. Elisha, w. Martha Bullard ; I. Julia, Feb. 5, '86, d. yg. ; ii. Becca, Mar. 
3, 1789, m. Bela Sawin, r. Templeton and S. ; in. Vernal, Mar. 3, '94, m. 
Mary Waugh, 2d Elizabeth Waugh, and had at S. 1. Vernal E., 2. Mary 
Ann," m. Milo R. Cambcll, and has Milo F., Robert, and Edmond A. ; 
iv. Calle, Mar. 22, '95, m. Sanford Tyler; V. Dana, m. Sarah Dix, r. 
Townsend. 



30. 34. Oliver, m. Nancy Bullard, r. S. i. Eunice, June 28, 1791, m. Henry 
Bullard, r. Sangerville, Me. ; n. Walter, Feb. 6, '94, m. Sally Clark, 
b. June 21, 1795, m. May 29, 1817, r. S., had Sally A., Leander, Louisa, 
Joseph W., Oliver N., Eleanor C. ; m. Elliot, Oct. 15, '95, m. Eliza 
Stevens, r. Grafton ; iv. Nancy, Feb. 26, '98, m. Jona. Eames, r. S. ; 
v. Martin, Apl. 3, 1800, m. Achsah Barbour, r. S. ; vi. Oliver, Aug. 3, 
1800, r. S. ; vn. Horace, Mar. 24, 1804, m. Emiline Perry, r. S., had 



14 BARHET, BAltRON, BARTLETT, BASS, BATCHELDER, BATES, 

Abbie P., Dec. 7, '34 ; Mary E., Oct. 10, '37 ; Harriett A., Feb. 10, '40 ; 
Ellen L., Feb. 12, '4-2, d. June 10, '50 ; vm. Julia, Mar. 4, '00, m. Amos 
F. Bigelow, and 2d, Fred. Waterman, r. Graf. 



James Barret, w. Tabitha , bad at S., i. Sarah, May 27, 1773 ; 

ii. Sarah, Aug. G, '35 ; in. Tabitha, June 3, '42. 



Wm, Barron, pr-. s. of Moses of Chemsford, w. Sarah Morse, d. 1721 j dg. of 
Cpt. Jos. M., 2d w. Thankful Holbrook, b. 1705, had at S. I. Moses, Apl. 
12, 1711; ii. Hannah, Feb. 1, '12-13; in. Win, Nov. 22, '24, by 2d w. 



Joseph Bartlett, w. Hannah , had i. Hannah, Feb. 17, 1G94-5 at S. 

ThO. BaSS, fr- Brain tree, signed the petition for S. 1662, m. Sarah Wood, 1660, 
dg. of Nicholas AY., and had i. Abigail, Jan. 2, '67 ; n. Samuel, Dec. 20, 
'69, and pr. others. After the decease of his father-in-law in 1669-70, near 
whom he had lived, he returned to B., 'where he became Dea of the ebb. 



Odin Batchelder, b. Sept. 16, 1775, s. of Daniel B., of Hampton, N. H., m. 
Huldah Searl, and 2d, Millicent Barrett, Oct. 27, 1847, had I. Wm. S., May 
28, 1800, rs. IF, m. Rhoda Whiting, fr. Med., had at H., I. Mary J., Feb 
26,' '29, m. Stephen Nicholas, '54 ; n. Ada M., Nov. 25, '34 ; n.'Benj. F. 
Nov. 1, 1801, rs. H., m. Lucinda Daniels, had 1. Curtis, m. Betsey 
Packard, has Chs. and Lyman ; 2. Eveline, m. Aaron Bennett, rs. Bos. 
3 Benj. F. ; 4. Wm. A 7 ". ; 5. Ellen ; in. John, Mar. 21, 1803, m. Emeline 
Mason, rs. H., had 1. John; 2. Emily ; 3. Matilda; 4. Henry; 5 
Frank; 6. A son; 7. Maria ; iv. Mary, Nov. 1, 1805, m. Isaac Johnson 
rs. N. Hampton, N. H ; v. Lucretia, b. ab. 1807, m. Timothy Fisk, rs. H. 
vi. George, b. ab. 1809, m. Hannah Kingsbury, rs. H. ; vn. Frederick L 
Kev. A. M., Jan. 17, ab. 1814, rs. um. at Stafford, Ct. ; vni. Otis R. Rev. 
Jan. 17, ab. 1816, rs. New Hampton, m. Catharine Palmer, who d. a mis- 
sionary at Midleypoor, Ind., and 2d, Sarah Merrill, had 1. Maria; 2 
Albert; 3. Henry M. ; 4. Francis ; 5. Geo. 



Wm. Bates, w. Mary , had i. Theoder, Oct. 11, 1762 ; n. Olive, Aug. 

27, '64, at S. 

Nathan'l Battle, w. Mary , i. Nath'l, Jan. 28, 1730 ; ii. Tho., Oct. 

13, '81 ; in. Charlotte, Oct. 19, '83. 

James Battell, m. Anne , 2d Beulah Stearns, fr. Mendon, 66. i. Olive, June 

22, 1757 ; n. James, June 27, '59 ; in. Joseph, Sept. 11, '62 ; iv. Anne, 

Sent. 1, '64. 

1 1 ■»» > — 

Nathan'l BealS, w. Mary , had at H. i. Nathan'l, Aug. 15, 1730, at H. 

■ ■»«» i — — 

Wm. Bedlam, w. Elizabeth , d. May 28, 1775 ; 2d wife Elizabeth, had 

at S., i. Hannah Dec. 18, 1771 ; H. Sallv, June 29, '73 ; in. Bccca, Jly. 
10, '76 ; iv. Elizabeth, Aug. 23, '79 ; v. Charles, Jly. 11, '78; vi. Charles, 
May 15, '81. 




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BATTLE, DEALS, BEDLAM, BICKFORD, BIGELOW. 15 

Jam.es Bickford, b. at Wellflect, 6. of , by w. , and whose 

remote ancestors were pr. of Dover, N. H., was in early and middle life en- 
gaged in the whale fishery, and master of a ship ; m. Lucy Lewis, of W. ; 
and on leaving the seas, purchased of John "Ware, of S., a part of the Hull 

Farm ; and had I. Sally , m. John Leland, Esq. ; n. James, m. Mille 

Holbrook ; in. Benj. Lewis, m. Mary Knowlton ; iv. Robert, d. urn. at sea; 
v. David Y., m. Catharine Crane; vi. John, d. um. ; vn. Palemon Mayo, 
m. Salinda Sullendine (d.) ; vin. Tho. Hopkins, m. Sarah H. Dearth. 

Jeremiah Bickford, m. Abigail Holbrook, b. Apl. 7. 1724, m. Sept. 19, 1748, at 
Wellfieet ; Elisha Bickford, m. Lucy Holbrook, b. Jan. 15, 1729, m. Sept. 
19, '48, sisters. 

1. Daniel BigalOW, son of John B., from Watertown, (see Bond's 

His. of W.,) s. on the farm late Jesse Cozzens, in Ashland, m. Abial , 

r. S. ; i. Abigail, Oct. 28, 1689 ; n. Daniel, Nov. 24, '91 ; in. Abial, 
Jan. 20, '93 ; iv. Susanna, Mar. 4, '95-6 ; 

11. 3. v. Ephraim. May 12, '98 ; vi. Lydia, Jan. 2, 1702, at Tram. 

4. Converse Bigilow, b. Jan. 20, 1755, son of Josiah B., of Waltham and 
Weston, by w. Mary Harrington, and grd. s. of Lt. Tho. B. (representative 
of Waltham, 1738 and '41,) by w. Mary Livermore ; and gr. grd. s. of 
Samuel B. (freeman 1690, and representative of W. 1708-9-10,) by w. 
Mary Flagg ; and gr. gr. grd. s. of John Bigelow, of "Watertown, a black- 
smith, who m. Mary Warren 1642; freeman 1652, and selectman '65, '70, 
'71 ; C. m. Ann Parks, was selectman 7 ys. 1790 — 1808, and had, i. Bet- 
sey, Jly. 31, 1779, m. John Goulding; n. Anne, March 21, '81, r. um. S.; 

5. in. John, Jan. 26, '83, m. Hannah ; iv. Converse, Nov. 20, '84, m. Mary 
Viles, r. Weston ; v. Elijah, Aug. 31, '86, m. Rebecca Fisk, r. Marlb. ; 

8. vi. Calvin, June 30, '90, m. Elizabeth Adams; vn. Sukey, Apl. 17, '92, 
m. Josiah Battelle ; vin. Sally, Feb. 4. '94, m. Stearns, r. Acton ; 

9. ix. Josiah, Mar. 22, '96, m. Harriet Sawin, r. Groton ; 

10. x. Amos, Mar. 17, '98, inherits the homestead in S., m. Lucy Stow, fr. 
Stow, had i. George Converse ; n. Amos E. ; in. Henry ; w.EdmondD.; 
v. Lucy A. ; vi. Wesley. 

3. 11. Ephraim Biglo, m. Lydia Johnson, Jly. 24, 1729, r. H. 

14. 12 i. Joseph, May 26, 1730; n. Abiel, Apl. 18, '32; m. Lydia, Oct. 22, 

'37 ; iv. Deborah, Mar. 16, '41-2 ; v. Asa, Jan. 27, '45-6. 

12. 14. Joseph, m. Lydia Brown, Aug. 5, 1756, r. PI. ; 
17. 15. i. Ephraim, Dec. 28, 1757; 

22. 16. ii. Joseph, Sep. 17, '63; in. Hepzibah, Sep. 24, "67. 

15. 17. Ephraim, m. Mary Knowlton, Mar. 8, 1781. r. H. ; 
18. i. Lawson, May 11, 1782 ; n. James, Dec. 31. 84; 
20. in. Calvin, Aug. 10, '92 ; iv. Lydia, Aug, 10, '92. 

16. 22. Joseph, m. Ruth Parker, r. H. ; i. Josiah, Oct. 26, 1790 ; n. John, Jan. 

28, '92 ; in. Joseph, May 4, '94, (d.,) m. Mary Ann Wilson, r. Natick ; iv. 
Sally, m. Gilbert D. Wilson, r. S. boro' ; v. Ruth, m. Aherst Messinger, r. 
N. ; vi. Ann, d. yg. ; vn. Charles, b. Mar. 12, 1807, m. Rebecca E. Bab- 
cock, r. S. and had i. Charles Everett, b. Sep. 3, 1833, d. Sep. 7, '53 — a 
young man of hopetul piety, natural refinement, and cultivated mind, having 



16 BLANCHARD, BOND, BRAGU, BRECK. 

gained a strong hold on the affections of an extensive circle ; n. Francis A. ; 
in. Moses E.; iv. Francis; iv. Elizth. A. ; 
vi ir. George, in. Amy Learned, r. N. 

1 1H I 

Albert Henry Blanchard, S. in S. as a physician in 1852, having pre- 
viously enjoyed the best opportunities for acquiring a knowledge of his pro- 
fession in Harv. Univ., where he graduated Jly., 1851, and subsequently 
spent a year in Mass. Gen. Hospital, as House Physician, witnessing every 
form of disease, and ascertaining from his seniors in practice the most ap- 
proved modes of treatment. He was born in Boston, June 25, 1828, the 
son of John Wheeler B., by w. Sarah Ann Badger, (dg. of Joseph and Sally 
Badger,) and grd. s. of Wm. Blanchard. He m. May 18, 1852, Eunice Al- 
den Hooper, b. at Fairhaven, Dec. 10, 1830, dg. of Joseph H, of Bridgewater, 
by w. Betsey Alden, dg. of Joseph A., by w. Bethiah Carver, a descendant 
of the 5th generation from Gov. Carver. They have i. Marion Alden, b. 
Mar. 1st, 1853, and n. Walter Everett, b. Oct. 10, '54. 



Isaac Bond, w. Margaret, (see Bond's His. of Watertown,) had at S., i. Isaac, 
Nov. 30, 1727 ; n. Hannah, Jly. 15, '29 ; in. Lydia, Jan. 25, '30-1 ; 
iv. Isaac, June 20, '33 ; v. Job, Apl. 6, '35. 

Isaac, w. Abigail; i. Hulcly, Feb. 27, 1759; n. Jonas, Mar. 21, '61; in. Sarah, 
Dec. 25, '62 ; iv. Nabby, Apl. 2, 65. 



Alexander Bragg, w. Sophronia, had at H., Sophrone, June 23d, 1785. 

1. Edward Breck, a yeoman of some distinction, was of Dorchester, 1636, 
took the freeman's oath May 22, 1639, and d. Nov. 2, 1662, leaving a 
widow, Isabel. 

i. Robert, who was a merchant in D. and rm. to Boston and free May 2, '49 ; 

n. John, Cpt., free Apl. 18, 1690, d, Feb. 17, 1690-1, a. 40 ; w. Susanna, d. 
Feb. 8, 1711, a. 64; 

in. Mary, bap. 13, (6) 1648, m. Samuel Paul, 9, (11,) 1660 ; 

iv. Elizabeth m. John Minot, Mar. 11, 1670, and d. Apl. 6, 1690 ; 

v. Susanna m. John Harris, Mar. 20, 1674. 

4. Henry Breck who was received to the chh. in Dor. 1641. 

5. Tho. Breck, who m. at Dor. 12, (12) 1656, Mary Hill, dg. of John Hill, and in 

1658 removed with her brother John H. to Sherborn and settled (1st on the 
bank of Charles R.) on a part of Robert Kaine's grant about \ m. N. of Bo- 
gistow pond. They having purchased of his administrator, it is presumed, 
about 500 acres, divided the same, Hill taking the N. part and 2 acres for 
a house lot, S. of Tho. Brick's present lane, bounded by the present highway 
on the E., and by Breck on all other sides, where H. built a 2d house. B. 
died Apl. 3, 1723. His wid. Mary d. Aug. 15, 1726. He had i. Mary, 
17, (10) 1657, at Dorchester ; n. Susanna, September 10, 1663, d. Aug. 
25, '64, recorded at Medfield ; in. Susanna, May 10, 1667. 
11. 6. iv. John, Mar. 4, 1671 ; v. Bethiah, Dec. 20, 1673 ; vi. Nathaniel, Mar. 1, 
1682 ; vii. Samuel, b. also Mar. 1, 1682. 

9. John Breck, senr., pr. the brother of Edward above, died at Medfield, Jan. 
3, 1660. 

10. John Breck, (pr.) son of John, senr., d. Aug. 20, 1690, at Medfield. 



i; it e c k . 17 

6 11. John inherited the farm opened by his father, m. Mchetabel Morse, dg. of 
Capt. Joseph M. of S. by w. Mchetabel Wood, dg. of Nich. W., and had 
i. Mehetabel, Oct. 10, 1698, m. Wm. Leland, of S. 

14. 12. ii. Jonas, Mar. 9, 1700, d. June 13, 1775 ; in. Abigail, Apl. 19, 1705, 

d. Mar. 3, '75, m. Jona, Holbrook ; iv. Keziah, Dec. 14, '15. 
20. 13. v. Elijah, June 22, '18, d. Feb. 11, '91. 

12. 14. Jonas inherited the central part of the Breck farm in S., m. Feb. 18, 1734-5, 

Mary Daniel, of Needh., who d. 1788, a. 85. He had 
28. 15. i. John, Dec. 1, 1735 ; n. Mehetabel, July 20, '37, d. Aug. 30, 1812, un. 

16. in. Jonas, June 19, '39, d. yg. ; iv. Joseph, May 28, '41, s. in Medfield, 
m. Mary Fairbanks, fr. Med., 2d Hanh. Plimpton, of Med., had i. Jo. of M., 
n. Amasa of Providence ; v. Mary, Aug. 31, '43, d. Mar. 14, '43-4 ; 

18. vi. Daniel, Feb. 22, '44-5 ; 

33. 19. vii. Tho., Feb. 28, '47-8, in. Mary Death. " 

13. 20. Elijah s. on the E. side of the Brick farm where John Ware resides, m. 

Sarah Hill, who d. Nov. 19, 1806, a. 78. 

37. 21. i. Elijah, July 20, 1753, d. Feb. 11, , killed by a plough, was the 

last of the race who inherited the E. part of the Breck farm ; n. Jotham, 
r. on the homestead, but Dec. 1, '54, d. in Med., ; in. Keziah, Jan. 14, '57 ; 
31. 23. iv. Daniel, twin brother of Jonas, not recorded, d. in S. ; v. Abigail, Apl. 
2:'., '01, m. Reuben Crimpton, of Croydon, N. H. ; vi. Luther, Mar. 27, '63, 
m. Hannah and had Luther, drowned, and Hannah ; vn. Calvin, Dec. 13, '65 ; 

34. 26. vui. Jonas, twin bro. of Daniel, m. Judith Thayer ; 

38. 27. ix. Jona., Dec. 13, '67. 

15. 28. John, m. Mary Hill, fr. Med., s. on the W. part of the Breck farm, f m. 

S. W. of the straits, and had i. Joshua, Apl. 13, 1759, d. Feb. 26, 'G2 ; 

29. ii. John, Jan. 1, '61, m. Abig'l Cutler, Dec. 3, '89, d. near Barre ; 

30. in. Nathan, July 31, '63, m. Mary Holbrook, Dec. 15, '85, had Anna, 
Miranda, Arba, Mar. 9, '91, Nathan, Feb. 13, '93, Mary, June 7, '96 ; 
iv. Mary, Oct. 29, '65, m. Abijali Wench, of Milford, 1790 ; v. Miriam, 
Aug. 24, '67, m. Wm. Heart, r. Union, Me. ; vi. Eliab, Sep. J3, '69, m. 
Polly Chee vers and nn. to Sterling, Worces. Co.; vn. Tabitha, Nov. 30, 
'73, d. Julv 31, '78 ; vin. Anna, Feb. 9, '76. 



18. 31. Daniel, m. Patty Learned, dg. Capt, Edw'd L., of S., had i. Amy, Dec. 
24, 1790, m. Leonard Ballard ; it. Ede, June 10, '92, m. John Sanderson, 
and r. a wid. at Cambridge ; ill. Patty, Apl. 15, '94, in. Donald Smith, (d,) 
of Bos; iv. Elijah, Feb. 2, '90, d. Sep. 3, 1834, m. Sarah A. Burroughs, 
2d Lucy Lovejoy, r. N. York, left ; Elijah Fuller, r. Lawrence ,* v. Lucy, 
July 30, '97, m. Eleazer Ware, r. S ; vi. Nancy, Oct. 5, '99, in. Capt. Curtis 
Goulding, r. S. ; vn. Eliza, Jan. 27, 1802, m. Dea. Paul Daniels, of Med. ; 
vni. Sarah L., Feb, 13, 'OS, m. Moses Gilmore, of S. boro'. 



19. 33. Thomas, in. Mary Death and inherited the ancient homestead, and had 
i. Rhoda, July 11, 1770, d. yg. ; n. Eli, Apl. 6, '77, m. Abig'l Jennings, 
and d. without issue; in. Betty, July 13, '80, m. Ira Pratt, of AVestford ; 
iv. Tho., June 1, '90, inherits the ancient homestead, m. Pede Sanger, 2d, 
Huldah (Jordan) Wood, had 2 dgs., both d. without issue ; v. Mary, Feb. 

11, '94, d. yg. ; vi. Lewis, bap. 20, '94, m. Sally Sanger, had 

i. Eugene, r. S., n. Eleanor Maria, m. And. J. Church, r. S. 

26. 34. Jonas, in. Judith Thayer, r. S. and rm. to W. part of Mass. ; i. Silas. 



^ BREWER, BRIANT, BRIDGES, BROAD, BROWN. 

bap. Oct 24, 1784, and d. in Med.; n. Asahel, b. Feb. 20, '85 ; in. Char- 
lotte, b. Oct. 22, '80 ; iv. Sally, bap. July 13, '88. 

21. 37. Elijah ,n. Hannah Prentice, May 28, 1789, 2d, Mary Pratt, and had 
only i. Alpha, bap. Mar. 10, 1795, d. yg. 

27. 38 Jona in. Polly Clcaveland, of Med., and had at M. i. Reuben, bap. Nov. 
15, 1801 ; ii. Lucmda, Oct. 3, 1802. l 

" * ■« * ' _ 

Capt. Moses Brewer, w. Elizabeth , had 1, Elizabeth, Jan. 6, 1761, at S. 

Mr. Benj. Briant, d. at S. Apr. 21, 1779. 

Thos. Briant, (pr. descendant fr. John B. of Scituate, 1639,) m. 1st Mehetabel 

— -, 2d Martha , m. after 1771 and r. where the late Reuben Cozzens 

did . i. Patty Jly 13, 1770, red. to the chh, Oct. 17, '90; n. Molle, Dec. 

}h 71 '> ™' ^ h0 \? ec \ 1 o 4 ', 79 ' IV - Ben J' J] y 21 > ' 81 J v. Nancy, Mar. 21, 
83 ; vi. Sophia, Mar. 18, '8o ; a Margaret B. m. John Death, 17G9. 

Benj. Bridges, w. Esther , had at H. I. Timothy; n. Parker Oct S 

1765 ; in. Sarah, May 6, '68 ; iv. Nathan, Nov. 26, '72, rn. Julia — and 
had Amos, June 28, '99, at H. ; v. Martin, Jan 27, 79. 

Hackaliah Bridges, w. Elizabeth Underwood, m. Nov. 29, 1764, had at H. i. Milla, 
Jly. 29, '65, m. James Holbrook, 1783; n. Jona., May 15, 1767- in- 
Jemima, Dec. 30, '68 ; iv. Betty, June 23, '70 ; v. Sampson, Jan. 12^ 
72; vi. Ruth. Aug. 12, '73 ; vn. Elijah, Apr. 15, 75 ; vm. Ede, Jan. 
18, <7; ix. Ziba, Nov. 11,78; x. Uraner, Apl. 4, '80; xi. Luther, 
Mar. 20, '82; xn. Calvin, Oct. 29, '83; xm. Sarah, Dec. 9, '87. 

1 m %m t 

1. ThaddeilS Broad, w. Eunice , had i. Elisha, May 29, 1741, at S. 

1 ■»» i . 

1. Elijah Brown, Rev., b. May 31st, 1744; grad. Har. Coll. 1765; was 
ordained at Sherborn, Nov. 28, 1770, and died Oct. 24, 1816. " He pos- 
sessed a strong mind, and at college was esteemed as a genius and a great 
wit. _ He was compelled to teach a select Classical and English School for most of 
his living; was a good teacher, fitted many students for college, and with him 
several studied divinity. His wit secures for him a long posthumous fame. His 
preaching in early life was Orthodox or Calviuistic, and he was an active minister. 
But he became Arminian, afterwards Arian ; contracted a very strong dislike to his 
early sentiments, and became neglectful of the duties of his profession. In cold weather, 
he preached from ten to fifteen minutes. He was reputed a good and kind husband 
and father. He married (1st) Dec. 13, 1770, Susanna Bigelow, of Waltham. She 
died May 1st, 1*07, and he afterwards m. Abigail, wid. of Gersham Flagg, of Lan- 
caster, a sister of his first wife, b. July 31st, 1760 ; d. Dec. 28, 1837, emphatically 
' an excellent woman.' To her children, by her first husband, he left his property. 
By his first wife he had two chil. 

I. Elijah, grad. Ilarv. University 1804, beloved for his amiable manners; began 

the study of divinity, and d. July 28, 1805, unm. 
ii. Henry, grad. Ilarv. Univ. 1804 ; studied law ; was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar, and died Aug. 5, 1810, aged 27, unm. " He was unamiable in his 
manners, and involved his father by his extravagance." [See Bond's His. 
of Wat. families.] 



BUCKMASTER, BULLEX 19 

2. Wm. Brown, w. Rebecca, had at 8., 
4. 3. i. Win. Apl. 9, 1G97 ; n. John, Apl. 9, '98 ; in. Rebecca, May 30, 
1701 ; iv. Mary, Dec. 20, '03. 

3. 4. Wm. m. Mary. i. Mary, Aug. 10, 1733; II. Abigail, Nov. 21, '36; m. 
Rebecca, Nov. 27, '39. 

5. Asa Brown, w. Silence, had in S., i. David, 1, 1758; n. Elizabeth, Mar. 
22, '60 ; in. Silence, Aug. 6, '63 ; 
iv. Abel, Apl. 2, '66 ; v. Oliver, Dec. 6, '67 ; 
vi. Elijah, bp., Jly. 31, '72 ; vn. Keziah, Dec. 18, '74. 

Wm., m. Susanna Graves, Jan. 24, 1793, r. S. ; i. Calvin, Aug. 15, 1793, at 
Natick ; n. Alfred, Jan. 4, '96 ; in. Harvey, b. also Jan. 4, '96. 

Joseph Brown, w. Katharine, 2d w. Hephzibath Leland, m. Oct. 11, 1733, had at H., 
16. 15. i. Joseph, Feb. 23, 1733 : n. Lydia, Aug. 29, '34, m. Joseph Bigelow ; 

in. Mary, Aug. 29, '34 ; Iv. Katharine, Apl. 9, '37, d. 1830, a. 93, m. 

Samuel Messenger, had a return of sight years before her death. 

15. 16. Joseph Brown, w. Lydia Twitcbell, m. Nov. 4, 1756, r. Holl. ; i. Mary, 
Oct. 10, 1757; n. Henry, Aug. 3, 1760 ; in. Joseph, Jan. 31, '63; iv. 
Lydia, Jan. 24, '66 ; v. Katharine, Jly. 29, '68. 

19. Ezra Brown, m. Rhoda Rockwood, Feb. 14, 1782, r. H. 

20. i. Amos, Jan. 10, 1783 ; n. Ezra, Jly. 2, '90 ; in. Martin, June 26, '92; 
iv. Emily, Sept. 14. '96. 



Zachariah Buckmaster, by w. Hannah had Zachariah, 1665, at Boston. 
He came to S. from B., where in l646 he had a father and a bro. Lawrence and sis, 
Elizabeth. He was in Shelborn 13 (3,) 1679, when he had a home lot of 14 acres 
assigned him at W. Sherborn, and built his house ab. 100 N. of Jacob Cushing's. 
where the cellar hole is still to be seen. He was alive in 1714. If he left any sons, 
they rm. to W. Chester Co., N. Y. 



1. Samuel Bullen, Dea., the ancestor of a numerous race in New England, 
was an early settler and proprietor of Dedham, took the freeman's cath 
June 2, 1641, m. Mary Morse, dg. of Samuel, 1641, who d. Feb. 14, 1688. 
He d. at Medfield, Jan. 16, 1691, and red. the first head stone erected there. 
As a proprietor of Medfield, he drew lands in M., which by a division of the 
town fell, in 1713, into Medway; and particularly in 1659, a lot of 126 
acres, now in W. Med. He was a tenant on Capt. Hull's farm, and had 
land assigned him here W. of the common, and pr. built opposite the Brush 
Hill Road, before he returned to Med'd. 
i. Samuel, 19, (10) 1642, at Dedh., d. 1727, at Medfield; n. Mary, 20, 

(5) '44 ; in. Elizabeth, 3, (12) '46. 
iv. Joseph, 1651, at Medfield, d. Jan. 1, 1703-4, w. Abigail Sabin, m. Mar. 
15, 1674, d. May 1, 1721. He became a member of the chh. in Medf., and 
took the freeman's oath May 23, '77, had no children recorded. 

8. 4. v. Ephraim, '53, at do., m. Grace and s. in Sherborn. vi. Mala- 

tiah '55. 

20. 6. vn.' Elisha, '57, d. Feb. 19, 1735, m. Hanh. Metcalf, r. Sh. and Medf. ; 
vin. Eleazer, Apl. 26, '62, d. May 3, '62 ; ix. Bethia, Aug. 1, 64. 

27. 7. x. John, d. Nov. 18, 1703, m. Judith Fisher, Jan 3, '83 ; 2d, Sarah Morse. 



20 B U L L E N . 

4. 8. Ephraim, w. Grace , d. Aug. 11, 168y, in her 26tb yr., r. Sherb. 

opposite the E. end of Brush Hill Road; had i. Mary, Mar. 6, 1681; 
11. 9. ii. Ephraim. Apl. 19, '85, ra. Ruth Morse, r. Sh. 
15. 10. in. John, Feb. 22, '86-7, m. Sarah; iv. Grace, Aug. 7, '89. 

9. 11. Ephraim, w. Ruth Morse, b. 1688 ; had at S., i. Ruth, Aug. 7, 1712 ; 
ii. Ephraim, Feb. 18, '13-4; in. Grace, Oct. 13, '15, d. Jan. 29, '96. m. 
James Morse, who s. on a part oij her father's farm, now Galen Bullard's, 
rm. Brookfield, Vt., and d. at S. ; it. Elizabeth, Nov. 2, '17; v. Ephraim, 
Jan. 31, '19-20 ; vi. Joseph, Feb. 26, '21-22; vn. Mary, Feb. 13, '23-24, 
m. Nathan Stratten, s. on her father's homestead ; vin. Unity, Aug. 30, '26 ; 
ix. Abigail, Feb. 13, '33-34, m. Henry Morse, of Med., and d. without issue. 
10. 15. John, w. Sarah, 2d w. Mehetabel Fisher, m. July 20, 1715, d. June 3, 
'51 ; her bus. d. Mar. 28, '39-40 ; had i. Noah, Sep. 2, 1710, at Sh. ; 
ii. Sarah, June 29, '11, at Sh. ; in. John, Oct. 23, '13, at Medf. ; 
iv. Mehetabel, July 7, '16, by 2d w. ; v. John, Jan. 11, '17--18, d. Aug. 
24, '18; vi. Timothy, July 11, '19, d. July 14, '19 ; vn. Keziah, Sep. 5, 
'20 ; vin. Judith, Nov. 30, '23. 

6. 20. Elisha, w. Hannah Metcalf, d. Dec. 20, 1719, r. Med. ; 
24. 21. i. Elisha, Aug. 14, 1684, at Sh., m. Lydia Ellis; 

33. 22. ii. Samuel, Nov. 24, '87, d. Apl. 4, 1749; in. Jona., Jan, 13, '94, d. 
Jan. 26, '94 ; iv. Hannah, June 28, '97 ; v. Miriam, Aug. 23, '02, m. 
Epbm. Wheelock, and had i. Eleazer. 

21. 24, Elisha, w. Lydia Ellis, b. Oct. 4, 1689, m. Jan. 8, 1712-13, d. Apl. 28, 

'26, r. Med., 2d w. Abigail , d. Nov. 21, '27, 3d w. Ruth Ellis, m. 

July 1, 1737; i. Ebenr., July 23, 1714, d. July 24, '14; n. Mary and 
Martha, b. and d. May 1, 1715 ; iv. Lydia, Mar. 19, '17 ; v. Elisha, Mar. 
16, '20, m. Mary Boyden, Dec. 27, '50, had Gad, d. June 28, '56 ; vi. 

Ichabod, Nov. 21, '27, by 2d w., m. Prudence , who had Isaiah, Apl. 

12, '54 and d. Sep. 22, '54. 

7. 27. John, w. Judith Fisher, m. Jan. 3, 1683, r. Med. ; i. Judith, Oct. 23, 

1689 ; ii. John, Jan. 31, '91, perhaps hem. Sarah Morse above ; in. David, 

Jan. 14, '93-4, inherited land assigned his grandfather, Sam'l, in W. Med., 

and "late his in 1738"; 
37. 30. iv. Michael, Apl. 2, '96, d. Jan. 28, 1747, in his 51st year, m. Lydia , 

was pr. f. to Michael, who d. at Needh. Oct. 20, 1769 ; v. Mary, Feb. 26, 

'98-9; vi. Silence, May 21, 1701, d. May 24, '01. 
32. 31. vn. Samuel, Aug. 20, '02, d. Aug. 13, '36. 

31. 32. Samuel, w. Experience, d. Jan. 14, 1727. 

22. 33. Samuel, " hus. of Sarah, d. Apl. 4, '49," w. Sarah , r. Med., had i. 

Samuel, June 22, '1722, d. Oct. 25, '36; n. Sarah, Oct. 15, '26; in. 
Moses, May 25, '31, m. Caroline Plimptori, Mar. 9, 1758. 



34. Bullen David, ? w. Abigail Dana, m. Sep. 5, 1718, d. June 3, '36, 2d 
w. Abigail Corning, m. Dec. 11, '37 ; i. Abigail, Aug. 14, 1719 ; n. Ju- 
dah, May 3, '21 ; d. July 6, 1720 ; in. Judah, May 6, '22 ; iv. Hannah, 
Apl. 12, '24 ; v. Patience, Mar. 8, '26, d. Mar. 9, '26 ; vi. Silence, Nov. 
3, '27, d. Nov. 9, '27; vn. Submit, Aug. 16, '31, d. Aug. 19, '31 ; vin. 
David, Mar. 10, '32 ; ix. Ebenr., May 13, '34, d. May 28, '34. 



BULLEN, BUKBANK. 21 

30. 37. Michael Bullen, Ens., w. Lydia, d. Aug. 21, '48, had 

45. 38. ii. Daniel, Oct. 27, '20; i. Elizabeth, Dec. 15, '27, d. Oct. 1G, '34; in. 

John, Sep. 8, '32; iv. Jabez, Aug. 4, '34 ; v. Mary, Oct. 8, '38; vi. 

Benoni, Sep. 22, '40, d. 1740 ; vn. Joseph, July 30, '44, d. Nov. 1, '45 ; 

vni. Michael, May 18, '40; ix. Jona., probably ? 

42. 43. Jona. Bullen, w. Susannah Broad, Apl. 14, '86, d. July 30, 1806, a. 40 ; 
i. Michael, June 25, '87 ; n, Lucy Bucknam, Dec. 4, '96 ; in. Melinda, 
Nov. 1, 1800; iv. Daniel, d. Oct. 3, 1802. 

38. 45. Daniel, Ens., d. Oct. 28,1801, w. Rachel Adams, m. Jan. 27, 1751; i. 
Sarah, Feb. 24, '55 ; a. Silence, Oct. 15, '53, d. Oct. 15, '53; in. Keziah, 
Dec. 24, '63 ; iv. Lydia, Nov. 29, '69, d. July 18, '80. 

40 Judathan Bullen. ? m. Dolly Clark, July 2, '72, 2d w., Bathsheba 

Daniels, m. Nov. 9, '85; i. Elizabeth, Oct. 26, '72; n. Mary, Oct. 28, '74 ; 

in. Judathan, May 12, '77, d. Oct. 8, '78; iv. John, Mar. 21,79; v. 

David, Mar. 24, '82 ; vi. Judathan, Feb. 7, '84 ; vn. Walter, Aug. 6, '87, 

d. June 14, '88; vin. Lowell, Oct. 8, '89; ix. Susanna, Sep. 7, '92; x. 

Asa, June 19, '91; xi. Betsey, Mar. 17, '95; xn. Lewis, ra. Esther 

Grout, 2d w., Mary A. Mann. 
33^. 52. Cpt. Sam'l do. w. Eliz'th, r. Med. village, kept a tavern ; i. Rhoda, 

Jan. 30, '74, ru. Remmington, 2d, Lakeman," and had a dg. 

in. Perkins, keeps boarding h., in Boston. 

56. 53. ii. 3Ioses, Aug. 31, '75, d. Feb. 15, 1850, m. China Ware, r. Med., 




Mar. 18, '92, m. Lawyer Rawson, of Mend 



55. John Bullen, ? of Med., in. Eliz'th Adams, Dec. 21, '46 ; Comfort, dp., ? m. 
Jona. Wheeler, Aug. 6, '42. 

53. 50. Moses m. China Ware, of S., r. Med., Bos., and S., and bad i. Charlotte 
Bullen, m. Baruch Leland, r. Stannocks, S. W. part" of S. 



John Burbank, w. Mary (pr. Emerson) had at H. i. Josiah, Apl. 28, 1774, 
n. John, Feb. 25, '76 ; in. Daniel Emerson, Mar. 3, '78 ; iv. Samuel 
May 1, '83. 

Samuel Burbank, w. Eunice Kendall, m. 1773. i. Sullivan, Oct. 8, 1776, at S. 



BULLARD. 

Among the early planters of New England appear seven men of the name of 
Bullard. The traditions concerning them are not reliable. That they were all 
brothers, is improbable, from indications of too great disparity of ages ; from their 
omission to name children for each other, and a common father, if not from the con- 
tinued use of a different orthography by the same clerk in recording their different 
names. They were — 
L 1. Jtenjamttt ihtUatb, who drew land in Watertown 1637 and '44. (See Chap, i.) 

2. (Bcorge Jhllifltfr, who was admitted to the Freeman's oath 1641, implying 

that he was a member of the church. He had land assigned bim in Water- 
town, 1G37, and died there, June, 1680, aged 81. (See Chap, n.) 

3. Sol)lt Sullfltb, who took the Freeman's oath May 13, 1640, signed the social 

compact of Dedham 1 day, (6 month) 1636, where his wife Magdalen was 
ree'd to the chh. 1639, and d. 29d. (1 mo.) 1661. He had land assigned 
him in Medfield, 1650 and '59, and d. there July 4, 1668. (See Chap, m.) 

4. SsflGC JBttllarb, who signed the social compact of Dedham 1636, and where he, 

or another of the same name, m. Sarah Jones, from Dorchester, 3, (11) 1654, 
and was admitted townsman 1655, and d. at D. 11, (3) 1676, leaving a 
widow, Ann. (See Chap, iv.) 

5. NcUl)fltticl jBllllflrb, who was admitted townsman at Dedham 1655, and free- 

man May 15, 1690, and d. there 3, (11) 1681. (See Chap, v.) 

6. iDin. Blllliirb, who took the Freeman's oath May 13, 1640, signed the social 

compact of Dedham 18, (6) 1636, where his wife was received to the church 
in 1639, and he was chosen Selectman in 1643. 
I 7. Hobcrt JJlllIarb, who died at Watertown 24, (4) 1639, aged 40, leaving a 
widow, Anna. 



CHAPTER |I. 

1. 8. Of the above list of Bullards, Uenjatnilt is the only one whose entire race 
admit of being traced with certainty, and separated from all others bearing 
the name. The orthography of our early records, that is so variable, gener- 
ally preserves one mode of spelling his name ; yet, from the inspection of private 
papers, and the uniform substitution of e for a in the last syllable, and the omission 
of d final by one of the best informed clerks in the colony, arises the supposition that 
the name was originally identical with Bulwer ; and if so, then Bulwer may be a cor- 
ruption of Bullard. Our sires brought with them from England the following tradition 
of the origin of the name : " One called a Lard, in ancient times, when on a royal 
hunting excursion, outstripped his company in chase of a wild bull, and killed bim — 
and ever after this feat was called the great Bull Lard. Hence his descendants were 
named Bullard."* The signature of Benjamin Bullard 1 has not been preserved, and 

* This story may admit of neither proof nor refutation ; and yet, is there nothing in its favor 
in the fact that the name, in Europe, is without a coat-of-arms, rare, and of narrow range ? But, 
however this may be, the authenticity of the tradition need not be doubted; for Mrs. Temper- 
ance D. Bullard, of Morristown, N. J., still living, (and long may she live to pray for the race 
and the world !) says that Mr. Jona. Bullard, a man of distinguished piety, who died 1824, aged 



H U L L A II D . 23 

very little can be ascertained concerning him. He was undoubtedly from England, 
and probably among the first planters of Watertown, in 1G30. His name first occurs 
upon the records of that town in the oldest history of her inhabitants, and in the first 
division of her public lands in 1637. In 1644 more land was assigned him, and he 
became the proprietor of about 100 acres, and of a dwelling-house, on the W. side of 
Fresh Pond. How much longer he lived, or where he died, has not been discovered. 

The name of his wife was not improbably Sarah , and he had but two children, 

who lived to heir his estate, viz. : 

10. 9. i. Benjamin, 2 who inherited all his real estate at W., and n. a daughter, men- 
tioned as the sister of Benj., in 1G72. 

9. 10. Benjamin," at the decease of his father, was probably a minor, and committed 
to the care of an uncle at Dedham, where he appears about the time he is 
presumed to have attained his majority, and where he seems to have formed 
such connections as are usually preceded by a long and youthful acquaintance. He 
was admitted a townsman at Dedham 1, (11) 1G55, which then implied a previous 
probation, a good moral character, and the age of 21. His marriage is not on record ; 
but circumstances almost as conclusive show that he m. Martha Fairbank, the sister 
of George P., of Dedham, who was of a good family, and connected with George F., 
of Somerby, in the vicarage of Halifax, Yorkshire. Benj. Bullard and George Fair- 
bank soon after embarked together in an undertaking that must have required cour- 
age, enterprise, and means above the possession of most young men of their commu- 
nity. To Capt. Robert Kayne, of Boston, had been granted, in 1649, 1074 acres, 
at Pawsett Hill, and which is now partly in Sherborn and partly in Medway. Cpt. 
Kayne d. Mar. 23, 1655-6. Of his executors, soon after, Bullard and Fairbank are 
presumed to have bought the south half or third of this tract ; and Hill and Breck, 
also brothers-in-law, from Dorchester, purchasing at the same time another part, 
bounding them upon the N. These constituted the second company who planted W. 
of Charles River ; and they all located their dwellings with reference to natural 
security, and that which they soon provided. They settled here prior to Feb. 2, 
1658, when their first child was born. Benj. Bullard and his brother-in-law seem to 
have divided their part of the tract as was then common, so as to give each other 
scattered lots and secure sites for building near each other. Bullard took the N. and 
S. W. parts, and located his dwelling on the N. side of Bogistow Pond, near a copi- 
ous and still valuable spring. The situation was admirably chosen for the capture 
of game, the rearing of stock, and for security against surprise from hostile Indians. 
The scenery was such as a man of taste would have chosen. It is still both beautiful 
and sublime. From his door he could survey the Broad Meadows, a wet prairie of 
five miles in extent, through which Charles River meanders, and which in vernal and 
autumnal seasons is converted into a lake. Hills beyond, covered with towering 
pines, then appeared mountains, while the soil beneath, lifted by roots two or three 
feet above its present level, concealed the hideous boulders which, in consequence of 
their decay, the absence of protecting humus and leaves, and the action of deeper and 
more frequent frosts, have since risen to the surface, and occasioned an inconsiderate 
impeachment of the judgment and taste of many an early planter. His land was then 
arable and rich. But his was a frontier location, cut off by river and marsh, and a 

90, used often to relate it in her hearing as a tradition from his father, who professed to have 
received it from Bullards of the first generation, born in New England. He was born in 1706, 
was cotemporary with some of them, and his character is well endorsed on the records of three 
churches. But it is no part of my object to derive our descent from a bull-hunting lord — though, 
as investigation proceeds, this, perchance, may yet be done — but from a higher stock, from one 
of the noble Puritans — men endowed of God with moral excellence and true dignity, compared 
with which the piles of the millionaire, and the glories of peers, primates and princes, are mean 
and contemptible. 



24 BULLA R L) . 

distance of four miles from the nearest settlement at Med6eld. His prospects and 
life were in danger. He found Wood,Leland and Holbrook, settled from one to two 
miles N., and was soon joined by llockwood and Daniels within one mile S., making, 
with Hill and Breck, one-third of a mile N., and Fairbank hard by on the S. W., a 
settlement of nine families, to be defended by themselves. ' They knew the Indian 
character and mode of warfare — that he never made his assault in the night, nor was 
he wont to cross open fields in his approach, or fail, if hungry, to publish it by killing 
a strayed ox. They accordingly selected for the site of their garrison the N. bank of 
Bogistow Pond, having long, wet prairies on the E. and N.W. The intervening neck 
was by fire and steel soon denuded on the N. and S., and a large vacuity secured. 
The waters of the pond in summer, and of Bullard's spring in winter, attracted their 
cattle, to report the missing and sound the alarm. Here they prepared to live, as 
all of them virtually did, the rest of their lives, in a state of warfare. They built 
for a garrison-bouse a spacious and regular fortress. It was superior to any similar 
structure on the then frontier. It was 65 or 70 feet long, two stories high, all of 
faced stone, brought over ice from a quarry one mile distant at the N.W., and laid, in 
a workmanlike manner, in clay mortar. It had a double row of port holes on all sides, 
lined with white oak plank, and flaring inward, so as to require no one to expose 
himself before them, while the besieged, by taking cross aims, could direct their fire 
to every point of the compass. This fortress was lighted and entered at the S. end, 
overlooking the pond, where the bank was so low that assailants from that quarter, 
in levelling at the high windows, would only lodge bullets in a plank chamber floor, 
or among the furniture of the garret. The upper story was appropriated to the 
women and children, and had a room partitioned off for the sick. To this place of 
security our ancestors, for more than two generations, were accustomed to flee in 
times of alarm, and here no small number of their children were born. In this fort 
they were once besieged by a host of Philip's warriors, who, in despair of all other 
means, attempted to fire the building by running down the declivity above it a cart 
of burning flax. Arrested in its descent by a rock still to be seen, and an Indian 
who had run down to start it having been killed, a retreat was sounded, and the lives 
of our ancestors saved. Two months afterwards the enemy returned, when our fathers 
sallied forth and charged them with such execution that " they never dared to show their 
faces there afterwards." The walls of this edifice were carefully preserved by the 
descendants of Benj. Bullard, until about 1785, when the proprietor sold out to a 
Vandal, who demolished them. Will the present proprietor, Horatio Mason, Esq., 
palisade the rock that scotched the cart, and saved the lives of five of his own ances- 
tors ? Benj. Bullard early united in the enterprise of adding a new town to the 
colony, and of enlarging the borders of Zion. In 16C2 he signed the first petition 
for the incorporation of Sherborn. In 1673, Oct. 3, he sold for £40 his patrimonial 
estate, in Watertown, to Justinian Holden. In 1674 he signed a second petition for 
the incorporation of Sherborn, when their prayer was granted, and he, by an Act of 
the General Court, with twelve other petitioners and twenty more of such as they 
might consent to receive as inhabitants, constituted a proprietor of lands, now compos- 
ing Sherborn, Holliston, and large districts of Framingham and Ashland. After the 
incorporation of Sherborn, Benj. Bullard was active in advancing her interests. In 
the petitions to the General Court, in the social compact of the town that he sub- 
scribed, he declared his high regard for the progress of the Gospel and the well-being 
of man. He was one of the six brethren to constitute the church at its formation. 
He served as Tythingman 1680, as Selectman, 1688 ; and was chosen to the very 
delicate office of seating the meeting when their house of worship was finished. 

The Indian claim to lands granted in S. prior to the incorporation of the town, not 
having been extinguished by the original grantees, Benj. B. united with nine other 
owners of these jirnnts, and for £20. paid to seven natives as principals, and em- 



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powered by "the natural descendants of the ancient inhabitants and proprietors of 
the lands in and about S.," procured, June 12, 1682, a quit-claim to 4000 acres. 
These included his farm of 150 do. ; and in 1686 he was rated with the forty pro- 
prietors and inhabitants of S. to raise an equal amount to extinguish the Indian claim 
to the remainder of 10,000 acres included in the township. He was rated among the 
highest, and this rate having been early adopted as the rule whereby the common 
lands should be proportioned, he and his heirs drew large shares, and became the 
owners of much land. He died intestate, Sept. 27, 1689, and administration was 
granted to his son Samuel, and Sarah Bullard? pr. his mother or sister. His per- 
sonal estate was appraised Nov. 28, 1689, by John Harding and Joseph Bullard, at 
£235 16s. ; and from another inventory, [Mid. Prob.] he seems, for his day, to have 
left a good property in stock and lands. The ancient Bullard farm on Bogistow 
Brook, in Medway, the Bullard farms in the S. and W. of Sherborn, and in the N. 
and W. of Holliston, were inherited from him, and drawn in his right. These have 
been enjoyed by many generations of his race, and well may his memory claim their 
gratitude and reverence. How can they show them ? He sleeps hard by the scene 
of his toils and perils. On the apex of one of Nature's pyramids, whose base is laved 
by Charles River, repose his ashes, in company with those of the founders of Sher- 
born. Over them are scattered the fragments of broken headstones, on their way to 
the river, whose gurgling waters seem to chant unheard the requiem of the dead, and 
whose bosom offers a more hospitable home to the tenants of their graves than their 
degenerate children are willing to provide, with law and justice to aid them. Editors 
and travellers have cried " Shame ! " in vain. Will the Bullards now interfere, 
redeem six feet, and mark it with a monument worthy of their great Puritan ancestor ? 
It can be readily and peaceably done. There is not a spirited female of the race 
who cannot, by her pen, accomplish it. Benj. Bullard' 2 m. 1st Martha Fairbanks, 
who d. Jan. 4, 1G76-7. He m. 2d Elizabeth^!!^, 1677, and had 

i. Mary, Sept. 14, 1663, d. July 31. '66, at Bogis'tow ; 
15. 10. it. Samuel, Hn. and Capt., Dec. 26, 1667, m. Deborah Atherton ; 
18. 11. in. Benj., Mar. 1, 1670, d. 1766, m. Tabitha &-^ ; iv. Hannah, Aug. 6, 

1672, ro. Wm. Sheffield, of -S., May 30, '92; 

v. Eleazer, Lt, June 27, 1G76, m. wid. Sarah Leland, 1704, s. in Medficld ; 

and d. without issue ; he had land in Black Swamp, and several lots in Holl. ; 
S4. 12. vi. John, Mar. 7, 1678, m. Abigail Leland, dg. of Dea. Hopestill L. ; 

vii. Elizabeth, Jan. 31, 1681, pr. d. vg., being no further reported ; 

via. Mary, Feb. 20, 1683, ra. HopestillLeland, jun., of S., Feb. 24, 1701-2 ; 
87. 13. ix. Malachi, Mar. 8, 1685, m. Bathia Fisher; 
92. 14. x. Isaac, July 25, 1688, d. 1742, m. Sarah Morse ; 

10. 15. Samuel, 3 Capt. and Hon., inherited the homestead, and became the most 
prominent citizen in Sherborn, and left indubitable evidence of talents and 
integrity. For a series of years he commonly acted as Moderator of her town 
meetings ; served five years as Assessor ; nineteen years as Selectman ; represented 
her, 1708, '9, '23, '24 and '25, in the Great and General Court, and was active in 
procuring for the town a grant of 4000 acres west of Mendon. He lived in an 
eventful period of her history, during which the administration of her affairs seemed 
to devolve mainly on him. He d. Dec. 11, 1727, a. 60. His will, dated Sep. 20, 
1720, and witnessed by Eleazer Bullard, John Brcck, and Wm. Rider, and proved 
Jan. 8, '27, <rave the use of all his estate, except farming utensils, to his wid. Deborah, 
while she remained his wid. ; and one third of the same if she .should m. again ; and 
at her decease all should go to his son Benj., he paying £150 to the heirs of Martha 
Fairbank, and £200 to his sister Deborah Bullard. Benj. and his mother Deb. 
were made joint ex'rs. His personal estate was inventoried May 13, 1728, and 



26 B U L L A R D . 

appraised at £25G. He m. Deborah Athcrton, June, 1690, dau. of James Atberton, 
previously of Lancaster, where she was pr. b., and afterwards of Milton. Her father, 
pr. of the same family as Maj. Gen. Hump. A., d. in S., Aug. G, 1710, and his 
wid. Hanh. Dec. 29, 1713. [Mid. Prob. 19, p. 37.] Capt. Samuel B. had 

1G. i. Samuel,' 1 Jan. 31, 1692, d. Oct. 14, 1714, um. ; n. Martha, 4 Feb. 11, 

1695, m. Eleazer Fairbank, of S., Dec. 25, 1712, and was the grandmother 

of Amos Twitchell, M. D., of Keen, N. H. 
21. 17. in. Benjamin, 4 Lt., Feb. 16, 1696-7, d. 1762 ; iv. Deborah, b. June 3, 

1704, d. Jly. 22, '05 ; v. Deborah, 4 Nov. 9, 17**, d. Feb. 10, '57, m. 

Eleazer Holbrook, Apl. 4, '28, r. Sh. 

11. 18. Benj. Bullard, 3d, inherited land that had been assigned to his father S. 
W., of Brush Hill, and built his bouse on the road from Holliston to the W., 
about half a mile N. E. of Whitney's Quarry. As inheritor of his father's 
right in common lands, he in 1716 drew lands adjoining the N. E. corner of Mendon, 
now Milford ; and in 1715, 37 acres W. of Mendon, now Douglas. At the 2d 
division of lands at D., in 1730, there were 45 acres more drawn "in his rigid,' 7 
showing that he had disposed of his right in the grants at that place. He was chosen 
tythingman in 1722 and '28, and repeatedly surveyor of highways, in the alteration 
and improvement of which he took uncommon interest. He occupied naturally the 
best land in the township, and seems to have quietly devoted his days to its cultiva- 
tion, until they were nearly numbered, and he and his wife in need of affectionate 
care from their children. Two of the four had settled in Holl., and his home boy, 
born ab. 32 years before, was now of age, but unmarried ; and the father, under- 
standing that spinsters then, as well as now, were naturally averse to antiquities, and 
that his son either loved himself so that he could love nobody else, or that he had 
been kicked so often and hard that he would never more venture within the reach of a 
female blow, despaired of the arrival of any daughter-in-law, and removed in 1739-40 
to his son Benjamin's, in Holliston. Here he spent the remainder of his days, and 
settled his estate. To Benj. he had given a deed of 60 acres as early as May 29, 
1727, and subsequently some other real estate in IT. ; but on the 20th March, 1748, 
in consideration of his dutifulness in taking care of him and his wife, he conveyed to 
him all his right to common lands in S. and H., and to a tract in the cedar swamp 
in H. To Jona. he is presumed to have left his beautiful farm in S. ; to Seth, other 
lands in H. and Douglas ; and to the old bachelor, at least, the privilege of grum- 
bling. He survived until about 1760, and d. intestate, aged ab. 90. He m. Ta- 

bitha , and had at S., 

26. 19. i. Benj., 4 Mar. 4, 1702-3, d. 176G, m. 1st Judith Hill ; 2d, Ruth Hill ; 
151. 191 n . Jona., 4 Oct. 24, '06, d. at Barre, June 4, 1784, "in bis 78th year." 
33. 2(h in. Seth, 4 Feb. 17, '08-9, d. 1775, m. Sarah Twitchell ; 2d, Lydia Haven ; 
iv. A son, who lived and d. um., leaving no trace of his existence but traditions. 



17. 21. Benj., Lt., inherited the homestead, was constable in 1727, and served as 
selectman 15 years. He made his will Feb. 12, 1762, making ample pro- 
vision for his wid. Miriam, dining her 1st widowhood, and magnanimously for 
her 2d do. should it occur. His farm of 185 acres he divided to his three 
sons, giving Benjamin the home lot, or E. division, who exchanged it for the 
S. W. do., given to Peter. To Samuel he gave the N. W. do. To Deb. 
Twitchell and Keziah Leland, each, he gave half his lands in Doug, and 
£80 ; and to Martha Leland £86 ; and the rest of bis estate to be equally 
divided among his 3 sons, the eldest to be sole ex'r. He m. Miriam Morse, 
b. June 30, 1700, m. Dec. 20, 1721', dg. of Samuel, and grd. dg. of Daniel, 
and gr. gd. dg. of Samuel Morse. She was long blind, and d. Dec. 9, 1774. 



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He had i. Adam, A. M., Jan. 8, 1722-3, grd. II. C, 1742, was assessor in 
S. 1747, and d. um. at Halifax, N. S. ; ii. Deborah, Oct. 20, '25, m. Jona. 
Twitchell, of S., Mar. 1, '43-4 m. Miriam, Nov. 27, '27, d. Aug. 4, '28; 
35. 23. iv. Samuel/' Col., Aug. 2, '2 I, B. £ m. N. of Bogistow Pond; 

v. Keziah, 5 Jan. 11, '31-2, m. Henry Lcland, of Sh. ; 
41. 24. vi. Peter, 5 Sep. 23, '34, s. at the homestead, N. of the Pond; 

vn. Martha, 2 Sep. 15, '37, in. Simon Leland, of Sh. ; 
49. 25. viii. Benjamin, 5 Cpt., June 30, '41, s. N. W. of the Pond, where H. 
Mason rs. 



19. 26. Benj. 4 settled in Holl. prior to 1727, and built his house ab. 30 rods E. 
of the N. E. corner of Milford. He m. Judith Hill, the mother of all his 
children, Nov. 9, 1727, dg. of " old Mr. Ebenezer Hill," of S., whose lot of 
192 acres, in Douglas, " falling well " at the drawing of shares in 1715, 
came forward after the town of S. had voted acceptance of a charge of £10 
for the survey, and " freely undertook to satisfy the committee and surveyor." 
Benj. m. 2d, Kuth Hill, Aug. 12, '62. He owned land in Holden, and 
with his brother Seth, Dec. 23, 1754, conveyed 75 acres to Samuel Bul- 
lard, [No. 23 and 35,] of Sherborn ; Benj. Bullard [No. 17] and Jason 
Haven witnessing the deed. He d. intestate, 1766. Administration was 
granted to his son Asa, cordwainer, Sept. 23, 1766, and his estate was in- 
ventoried at £636 Is. lid., consisting of the homestead, 130 acres at Kocky 
Hill, a lot on Deer Br., and another in Cedar Swamp ; all in II. To Asa 
all the real estate was assigned, and he appointed guardian of his brothers 
Ezekiel and Daniel, and sister Dinah, then in their minority. He had 

50. 27. i. Asa, 5 Jly. 10, 1730, d. 1804, to whom his real estate was assigned ; 

ii. Judith, 5 Aug. 20, '33, m. Seth Thayer, Feb. 6, '52, and had Hannah, 
Apl. 10, '54, m. Abner Leland, of H., and d. ab. 1850, at Ashland; 
m. Tabitha, 5 Feb. 8, '34-5, m. Mordecai Day, of Mend, '66 ; 

G3. 28. iv. Eleazer, 5 Mar. 11, '37, m. Hannah Rawson ; v. Daniel, 5 June 11, '39, 
d. without issue after 17G7 ; vi. David, 5 Aug. 11, '41, m. Hopcstill Taft, 
of Mend., Nov. 27, 1766; vn. Mary, 5 June 5, '44, m. Michael Madden; 
viii. Dinah, named in the settlement of his estate, m. Stearns. 

61. 31. ix. Nathan, 5 (not recorded,) m. Bathsheba Hill ; x. Lydia, named among 

the heirs of his estate, Dec. 16, 1767, m. Boynton. 

32. xi. Ezekiel, 5 Mar. 3, '48-9, settled in Maine. 

20. 33. Seth, 4 settled in Holl., m. Sarah Twitchell, Sep. 7, 1736, who was b. June 
12, 1720, and d. Dec. 8, '51, dg. of Eben'r T., by. w. Sarah Pratt, and 
grd. dg. of Benj. T., of S., by w. Mary White, and pr. gr. grd. dg. of Joseph 
T. of Dorchester, who had land assigned him there 1G35-6. Seth m. 2d, 
Lydia Haven, Oct. 18, '52, b. 1715, dg. of Richard H., of Fram. He had 

67. 34. i. Ebenezer, 5 Sep. 16, 1737, d. 1792 ; n. Sarah, 5 April 1, '42, m. Solomon 
"Walker ; in. Mary, 5 Jan. 4. '45-6, m. Samuel Claflin. 

23. 35. Samuel, 5 Col., inherited one third of his father's farm, and built his house 
where the heirs of the late Elijah Hill reside. He was early invested with 
the honors of his fellow-citizens, and much confidence, through a long life, was 
placed in his judgment and integrity. He was received as Capt. B., a member of 
the Ancient Art. Co. 1755, chosen Selectman 1760, and served in that capacity nine 
years, and was Representative 1774. At the commencement, and during the Revo- 
lutionary War, he was an active and efficient Whig ; served one campaign at Ben- 
nington, and was often on committees of correspondence and vigilance. Ho married 



28 BULLABD 

Martha Perry, from Medfield, Dec. 12, '51, who died Jan. 8, '53, without issue; 
and 2d, July 10, 1754, Mary (Cooledge) Ware, wid. of Benj. W. (by whom Bhe 
had no child), and dg. of James Cooledge by w, Freelove Monk (dg. of Elias and 
Hope Monk,fr. Seehonk to Stoughton), and grd. dg. of John Cooledge of Sh., and 
gr. grd. dg. of Ens. John C, of Watertown, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Hn. John C, of 
W. [Bond]. She was b. Jan. 7, 1731-2, and d. his wid. Mar. 11, 1813. In 17G3 
Col. Bullard bought of John Morse 30 acres, originally granted to Bev. Daniel 
Gookin, and once owned by James Cooledge, his father-in-law, situated on the W. 
side of the county road, at the bottom of the Meeting-house Hill ; also of Moses Perry 
3 acres, on the E. of the road, and 80 acres of rough woodland, S. of the road from 
the plain to the farm, and E. of the plain. The deeds may be found on record, and 
the slander-monger who never turns out for a grave except to tramp rough-shod over 
it, can read them. In 17G9 he bought land of Moses Perry for a malt-house. After 
the first purchase he moved to the plain, kept a house of entertainment, and erected 
malt-works, which have been successfully carried on by his descendants rpuite to the 
present time. He d. Mar. 5, 1807, with the dropsy. He had 
i. Mary, Mar. 27,1755, who m. Eleazer Dowse; 

71. 36. ii. Adam, Oct. 27, '56 ; 

72. 37. in. Asa, Maj., April 27, '58, d. 1804-5, leaving no child, r. S. ; 

iv. Nabby, Sep. 11, '60, d. 1850, m. Nahum Wight, of W. ford; 

73. 38. v. James, Aug. 25, '62, d. June 30, 1828, with apoplexy ; 

vi. Martha, July 18, '64, m. Elisha Barber, of S. ; 
vii. Julia, Aug. 24, '66, d. agd. about 19 ; 

74. 39. viii. Samuel, Apl. 14, '70, inherited " the French gun that had been his 

gr. grd. father Bullard's ; ix. Nancy, 6 Feb. 27, '68, m. Oliver Barber, of Sh. ; 

75. 40. x. Benj., May 14, '73 ; xi. Betsey, June 16, '76, d. um. at Sherborn. 

24. 41. Peter, 5 settled on the ancient homestead, m. Patience Leland, dg. of Isaac 

L. by w. Abigail Mason, and b. Dec. 28, 1745, m. Mar. 11, '62, d. Feb. 27, 
'63. He m. 2d Elizabeth Ware, b. Aug. 22, '46, m. 1765, d. Feb. — , 
1814, dg. of John W. of Sh., and sis. of Rev. Dr. Henry W., sen., of H. U. 
He was chosen Selectman 1770, but had little to do with public business 
beside affording pecuniary aid in the struggle for independence. He d. June 
11, 1809. He had i. Isaac, 6 Feb. 19, 1763, cl. yg. ; n. Sarah, May 9, '66 ; 

76. 42. in. John, Jan. 19, '68 ; iv. Elizabeth, Dec. 23, '69; 

77. 43. v. Peter, 6 Dee. 27, '70 ; vi. Betty, Feb. 27, '73 ; vii. Patience, Dec. 20, 

'74, d. yg. ; vm. Persis, Dec. 20, '74 ; ix. Patience, Mar. 14, '76 ; 

81. 44. x. Lewis, July, 22, '78 ; xi. Amos, 6 Mar. 3, '81, d. um. ; xn. Mary, 6 

Mar. 27, '83 ; 
83. 47. xm. Braton, 6 June 14, '86 ; xiv. Leonard ; 

82. 48. xv. Leonard, 6 Mar. 25, '92, m. Amy Breck. 

25. 49. Benj., 5 Cpt., s. where Horatio Mason resides, then considered a part of 

Sherborn ; served at the age of 17 in the French war ; and at the commence- 
ment of the revolutionary struggle was at the head of a company at Lexington 
and Bunker Hill, and continued in the service until 1779. In 1780 he was 
chosen Selectman, but resigned before the end of the year, and removed to 
Newton, having in the meantime sold his place to Abner Mason. He after- 
wards returned to S. In 1797 he removed to Hopk., where he became a 
pensioner, and spent the remainder of his life. He d. Feb. 16, 1834, a. 92. 
He m. Beulah Pratt, dg. of Doct. P. of Med., and had i. Miriam, 6 Nov. 4, 
1765, d. Dec. 18, 1848, m. Ebenr. Pratt, of S. ; n. Charles, Feb. 21, '67, 
d. um. ; in. Ama, May 8, 'GS, d. um. ; iv. Anna, 6 Juno 2, '70, d. in Vt,, 



BULLARD. 29 

m. Malachi Babcock, of S. ; v. Arnold, 6 May 5, '72, d. Sept. 8, '75 ; 
vi. Braton, 6 Feb. G, '74, d. Sep. 3, '75 ; vn. Beulah, 8 Sep. 9, '75, r. um. 
in S. ; vm. Arnold," Oct. 8, '77, m., s. and d. on Mohawk 11. ; 
ix. Betty,' 1 June 10, '80, at Neeuhani ; x. Patience, June 18, '83, d. um. ; 
xi. Julia, 6 Jan. 29, '86, rs. um. in S. 



27. 50. Asa,' 5 inherited the homestead in the W. part of Holl., m. 1st, Hannah 

Jones (b. Aug. G, 1734, d. Apl. 1762), dg. of Eli J., of II., by w. Marcy 
Underwood, and grd. dg. of Thos., of S. He m. 2d, Hannah Cook, daug. of 
Walter Cook, of Mendon, Nov. 1, 1762; made his will Bee. 17, 1802, and 
d. prior to June 12, 1804. He settled the homestead on his son Artcmas, 
and appointed him executor, who transferred his right to his br. "Walter, after 
whose decease it passed out of the name, and became profaned as a railway 
station, lie had i. Asa, 8 Mar. G, 1755, m. Lucy Harvey, June, '76, and d. 
at Sturbridge without issue. He was a soldier of the Revolution ; 
52. ii. Aaron, 6 Mar. 26, '57, m. Lovice Godfrey, of Milford, Sept. 21, 1780; 
80. 53. in. Joshua, 6 June 28, '59, d. May 13, '95 ; iv. Judith, June 24, '61, m. 
David Holbrook, of Holdcn ; v. Hannah/' Mar. 6, '64, by 2d w., in. Aaron 
Phips, of Holl ; 

78. 54. vi. Walter, 6 April 26, '65, m. Charlotte Harris ; vn. Eli, d. Sep. 22, '75 ; 

79. 55. viii. Artemas, 6 Doct., Bee 8, '68, d. May 6, '42, at Sutton, r. Northbridge. 
140. 5(:). ix. Haziah, 6 Nov. 25, '70, d. , m. Keziah Leland ; x. Lydi;i, 6 

Bee. 11, '72, d. Aug. 25, '75 ; xi. Olive, June 16, '74, d. Aug. 30, '7.'. ; 
57. xii. Benj., 6 Aug 9, '76, m. Thankful Leland, April 2, '98, and d., without 

issue, prior to Bee. 17, 1802, at Paxton ; xin. Amos, 6 Aug. 23, '78, rs. Fr'k ; 
59. xiv. Jona.. 6 Sept. 14, '81, m. Whiting, and d. at the West; 

xv. Polly, Oct. 6, '83, rm. Ellis, 2d Montague, r. Montague ; 

xvi. Joseph, 6 Sept. 18, '86, rs. at W. Med. 

31. 61. Nathan, 5 s. in Holliston. He m. Bathsheba Hill, b. May 20, 1744, m. 

Apl. 13, '09, dg. of Joseph H., of S., by w. Huldah , and grd. dg. of 

Boct. Eleazer H., of S., and gr. grd. dg. of Eleazer H, of Medfield, and gr. 
gr. grd. dg. of John H., of Borch. and Sh., and gr. gr. gr. grd. dg. of pr. Mr. 
John Hill, of B., in 1633, who d. " old," in 1064. He had i. Phoebe, 6 
Apl. 2, 70 ; ii. Huldah, Feb. 28, '72 ; in. Ezel., Feb. 24, '74, d. yg. ; 
62. iv. Baniel, 6 Mar. 13, '77 ; v. Lydia,Mar. 21, '79 ; vi. Huldah* Jly 12, '81 ; 
vn. Nathan, 6 Aug. 21, '85, d. yg. 

28. 63. Eleazer, 5 resided in Hoi., m. Hannah llawson,fr. Mend., Apl. 3, 1759, and 

had i. Joel, 6 May 24, 1760 ; II. Elijah, 6 May 17, '62 ; in. Benj., Apl. 12, '64. 

34. 67. Ebenezer, 5 resided in H. and Fram., m. Betsey Haven, and had 

i. Betsey, 6 Apl. 9, 1759, m. Moses Fisk, of Fram. ; ir. Lydia, 6 m. Ezekiel 

Kice ; in. Sally, m. John Parkhurst ; iv. Polly, 6 b. in Athol, m. Porter; 

68. v. Baniel, 6 b. in Tcmpleton, m. Wid. Nutt ; vi. Ebenezer, 6 b. in Petersham, 
d. yg. ; vn. Seth, 6 b. in Athol, m. Newton, of S.boro'. [Barry.] 



36. 71. Adam', 6 s. in S., became interested with his brother Asa in a forge in IIol., 

and removed to Williamsburg. He m. llebccca Miller, and had i. Rebecca/ 

Sept. 21, 1784, m. Wing, r. Savoy ; n. James/ Apl. 15, '87 ; 

in. Julia/ Nov. 4, '91, m. ^'ing ; iv. Samuel/ Jan 13, '93 ; 

v. Asa 7 ; vi. Mary 7 ; and others. 7 

37. 72. Asa, 6 Maj., served as an officer in the Revolutionary War ; m. Keziah Lc- 



30 BULLARD. 

land, his cousin ; had Caroline/ and Harry, 7 both of whom d. yg. He sub- 
sequently lost his reason, and was taken care of by his brother James. 

38. 73. James, possessed his father's place on Edward's Plain, and carried on the 
manufacture of malt. He m. Mary Harding, dg. of Simon H., of Mcdfield, 
by w. Mary Gardner, fr. S., who m. 2d, Caleb Lelancl, of S., and d. in M. 
Mr. James B. m. 2d, Catherine Nason, fr. Walpole, Oct. 179G. He had 
I. Andrew, 7 Aug. 13, 1787, m. Beulah Coolidge (d.), a lady of great excel- 
lence of character, dg. of Daniel C, of S., by w. Beulah Smith, and grd. dg. 
of Joseph C. by w. Elizabeth Frost, and gr. grd. dg. of Isaac C, Esq., of S., 
by w. Hannah Morse, dg. of Hn. Joseph M., of S., and had 

I. James, 8 Jan. 20, 1813, who inherits the homestead in Sh. ; married 
Elizabeth M. Lathrop, b. Aug. 15, 1817, and has Edward B., u Agnes 
H., 9 Marietta L., 9 Carrie I.; 9 

II. Daniel O. 8 Dec. 27, 1814, m. Elizabeth Keyser, fr. Germantown, 
r. G. ; has Bufus K., 9 Charles," Miller, 9 Samuel, 9 and Eleanor; 9 

in. Edward 8 June 18, '18, d. a. ab. 21 ; 

iv. Rufns 8 Sept. 27, '20, m. Mary Leigh ton, and d. Oct. 1, '49, in Cal. ; 

v. Eliza W., 8 Feb. 12, '24, m. Amasa II. Lathrop, r. S. ; 

vi. Lucy, 8 Apl., 1826, m. Benj. Kendall, A. M., r. Newburyport; 

vn. Justin, 8 r. um. in New York ; 
ii. Harry, 7 b. Mar. 16, 1789, m. Mary Bullard ; inherited and carried on the 
ancient malt works, which he some time ago voluntarily demolished. They had 

i. George Henry, 8 Aug. 12, 1833 ; 



ii. Bufus Nason, 8 April 27, '38 ; 
Mary, 7 Jan. 4, 1796, resides, a 



— 7 £-- —'7 J 

in. Mary, 7 Jan. 4, 1796, resides, a maiden lady, at S. 



39. 74. Samuel, m. Hannah Plympton, fr. Medfield, and had only Almira, 7 d. yg. 

40. 75. Benj., r. S., m. Persis Babcock, Mar. 31, 1796, who d. Aug. 19, 1809. 

He m. 2d, Nancy Dexter ; 3d, Harriet (Pond) Farrington ; 4th, wid. (Pierce 
— Daniels) Hines, '41, and had i. Otis, 7 Aug. 6, 1797, m. Polly Pierce, r. 
Fram., had Polly Maria 8 and Ira Otis 8 r. F. ; n. Ede, 7 Oct. 8, 1800, d. 
um., a. 32 ; in. Samuel Dexter, 7 May 1, 1814, d. a. 19 ; iv. Persis Ann, 7 
m. Michael Guyrn, r. S. ; v. Benj., 7 d. a. 5 ys. 

42. 76. John, Esq., s. in S., m. Mary Whitney, dg. of Hon. Daniel W., Esq.; was 

Selectman 8 years, and Bepresentative 1819, and had i. Sally, 7 Mar. 5, 1794, 
m. Martin Clark, of S., who d. at Savannah ; 2d, Wm. Stratten, of S., and 
had John B., 8 Mary W., 8 Eliza M., 8 who m. And. Becker, and has 2 chd'n. ; 9 
ii. Mary W., 7 Feb. 5, 1804, m. Harry Bullard ; 

in. Elizabeth, 7 May 16, '07, d. Dec. 5, '44, without issue ; m. Bichard 
Bichardson, of Med. ; iv. John W., 7 May 13, '09, d. yg. ; v. Daniel, 7 May 
13, '11, inherits the central division of the ancient Bullard Farm at Bogistow 
Pond, and occupies a house built 1822, ab. 00 rods W. of the site of the first 
house. He m. Abigail Shumway, dg. of Capt. John S., of Dover ; 2d, Mary 
Ann II. Ilixon, dg. of Isaac, or Asa II., of Med., and has John S., 8 Ahhy 
A., s and by 2d w., Ella M. 8 and Frank 8 . • 

43. 77. Peter, resided in S., Barre and Worcester, m. Ann Babcock, b. Mar. 11, 

1774, dg. of Malachi B., of S., by w. Mary Holbrook, and grd. dg. of Ebnr. 
B. by w. Abigail Leland, and gr. grd. dg. of Ebnr. B., fr. Milton to S., ab. 
1677. He had i. Horatio, 7 Sept. 20, 1794, d. yg. ; n. Almoran, 7 April 6, 
'96, d. in S. America; in. Harriet, 7 Feb. 17, '99, d.yg. ; iv. Horace, 7 Sept. 



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7, 1800, m. Sophia Smith, r. Worces. ; v. Dexter, 7 Apl. 20, 1803, d. um. 
w. consumption ; vi. Lyman, 7 d. w. do., agd. ab. 21 ; vii. Persis Ann, 7 m. 
Perrin Bliss, r. Worces. ; yiii. Elizabeth, 7 m Alfred Allen, and d. at Spfd. 

54. 78. Walter, 6 in., 1787, Charlotte Harris, s. in the W. part of Holl.,on the old 
homestead, and had 

1G6. 78^. i. Eli, 7 Apl. 12, 1788; n. Alpheus, 7 Mar. 19, '90; m. Zebina, 7 April 4, 
1792, r. Bellingham, m. Polly Ilixon, dg. of Asa H., of Med., by w. Polly 
Turner, a descendant of Elder Brewster, of Plym., and grd. dg. of Seth H., 
by w. Bethiah Partridge, dg. of James P. by w. Kez. Bullard, has Milton 8 ; 
iv. Jasper, 7 July 7, '94; v. Nancy, 7 June 30, '96; vi. Meranda, 7 Dec. 28, 
'98 ; vn. Charlotte, 7 May 21, 1801 ; vm. Walter, 7 July 17, 1803; 
ix. Benj., 7 April 28, '00 ; x. Irene, 7 Sept. 8, '08 ; xi. John ; 7 xn. Mary. 7 



55. 79. Dr. Artemas Bullard, of Sutton, was the second son of Asa Bullard, of 
Holliston, by Hannah Cook, his second wife. He was the executor of his 
father's will, who was the administrator of the estate of his father, Benjamin 
Bullard, and thus a variety of papers came to his hands, relating to his ancestors, 
from which it appears that they early removed from the town of Sherborn to Hollis- 
ton. Of a family of five children by the first wife, and eleven by a second, Artemas 
was the only one professionally educated. About the time he became of age, he 
commenced the study of Medicine with Dr. John B. Kittredge, of Framingham, and 
completed his studies with Dr. Daniel Fiske, of Oxford. He was with Dr. Fiske 
about two years ; and the ancient people of Oxford recollect Dr. Bullard as a " smart 
young physician," whom they were desirous of having settled with them. 

With an inventory of medicines costing twelve pounds, and under a debt of the 
like amount, he commenced practice in Northbridge, August 28, 1794, and con- 
tinued there till his removal to Sutton, April 8, 1805. While a Student of Medi- 
cine at Oxford, he became acquainted with his first wife, Maria Waters, eldest 
daughter of Ebenezer Waters, Esq., of Sutton, a relative of Dr. Fiske, and they were 
married February 17, 1796. She was a very worthy lady, but died, without issue, 
in about two years after her marriage, and now sleeps in the tomb of her father, in a 
private cemetery near West Sutton village. Upon this tomb is a monumental tablet, 
with many inscriptions, commemorative of the family of her father. 

On the 6th of December, 1798, Dr. Bullard married, as his second wife, Lucy 
White, the eldest daughter of Mr. Jesse White, of Northbridge, by whom he had 
three daughters and seven sons. She now survives him in the enjoyment of health, 
and the respect of all who know her. She was brought up and educated in the Ana- 
baptist way ; but soon after the birth of their first child, she and her husband both 
became connected with the Congregational Church, under the pastoral care of the 
late Rev. Dr. John Crane, for whom they always cherished the greatest regard. 

In Northbridge Dr. Bullard was much esteemed both as a citizen and physician, 
and his practice in that place and vicinity became extensive. But his father-in-law, 
Esquire Waters, being advanced in years, and having a large and beautiful farm in 
the westerly part of Sutton, induced him to purchase it ; and after that, his attention 
was divided between his profession and his farm. He, however, continued to practise 
as long as he lived. In 1805, when military honors were not so cheap as at present, 
he was appointed by Governor Strong surgeon of the regiment where he resided ; 
and in 1814 the Council of the Massachusetts Medical Society elected him as a Fel- 
low. Nothing was wanting to give him an eminent position in his profession, but 
exclusive devotion to it. 

Dr. Bullard belonged to the school of domestic economists, who regard industry 
and subordination as indispensable elements in a wise administration of family gov- 



32 BULLABD. 

eminent ; yet be was an indulgent father. In his desire for the preferment of his 
children, he always seemed to forget himself. They were all well educated ; — three 
of his sons were graduates, and entered the ministry ; one is a physician, in extensive 
practice, in Indianapolis ; and his three daughters all married professional men. 

In his person Dr. Bullard was somewhat above the ordinary stature ; of light florid 
complexion ; light blue eyes ; nose slightly acpuiline ; and, in short, as his surviving 
contemporaries say, "a fine-looking man." He possessed ardent feelings, and great 
energy of character, united with a sound judgment. His integrity was proverbial — 
always doing exact justice to others, and expecting the same from them. He thus 
secured the confidence and respect of all, while he failed to gain that personal popu- 
larity which often results from an indiscriminate indulgence of faults, 'under the name 
of charity. 

The residence of Dr. Bullard at West Sutton was upon a beautiful rise of land, 
about half a mile south-east of the village. In his family it will long be recollected 
and designated as " Bullard Hill." The dwelling-house is a substantial two-story 
structure, erected some three-fourths of a century ago, but still looks as if it might 
serve several generations more. Four or five rods west of it is one of those magnifi- 
cent elms that characterize so many of the early New England homes. The farm is 
now owned and occupied by Joseph Bullard, the third son of the Dr. But one of 
the children has deceased, whilst the rest of them, with their families, are settled in 
several different States in the Union. 

The death of Dr. Bullard was occasioned instantaneously, by a fall in his barn ; 
but for which he might have survived, in comfortable health, for several years. It 
occurred on the sixth day of May, 1842. His funeral was attended by a large con- 
course of relatives and triends, and the funeral services were performed by the Rev. 
Hiram Tracy, of Sutton, and the Rev. David Holman, of Douglas. He was buried 
in the West Sutton Cemetery. The lot in which he lies is enclosed by an iron 
fence, which, if it receives from his descendants the care that filial piety and respect 
owe to the monuments of the dead, will resist the corrodings of the elements for many 
centuries. Within this enclosure is erected a plain marble head-stone, with the fol- 
lowing inscription upon it : " Dr. Artemas Bullard; born at Holliston, December 
8, 1768 ; died at Sutton, May 6, 1842, aged 73." 

By the side of his grave is the vacant but chosen resting-place of the much-cher- 
ished partner who still survives him. Long may it remaig untenanted ! 

Worcester, Dec. 22, 1854. Com. by i. m. b. 

55. 79. Doct. Artemas Bullard m. 1st, Maria Waters, Feb. 17, 1796, dg. of Eben- 
ezer W. of Sutton, by w. Mary Adams, b. Aug. 6, 1769, and d. June 6, 
'98, without issue. He m. 2d, Lucy White, Dec. 6, '98, dg. of Jesse W. 
of Northbridge, by w. Anna Mason, and b. May 5, 1778, who still survives.* 
They bad 

t. Maria Waters, Jan. 25, 1800, was m. Nov. 11, 1823, at Sutton, by Rev. 
Edmund Mills, to Hon. Ira Moore, Barton, b. at Oxford, Oct. 25, 1790, 
and named Ira ; but in testimony of respect for the memory of his ma- 
ternal grd. mother, and revered gr. grd. father Moore, the first magistrate 
in the ancient town of Oxford, he in 1838, by an act of the General Court, 
adopted the additional name of Moore. He grad. at Brown University, in 
1819, and at the Law School of Har. Univ. in 1822 ; practised law in his 
native town 1822-34, and represented her in 1830-1-2 in the House 
and the Co. of Worcester, in 1833-4 in the Senate of our Legislature. In 
1834, be removed to Worcester. In 1836, he was appointed Judge of Pro- 

* Her grd. father Mason died from a casualty at Thompson, Ct.. aged upwards of 10,1 years. 



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bate for Worcc. Co., and in 1810, chosen Elector for President and Vice 
Pres. In 1844, he resigned his Judgeship, and in 1846, represented the 
city of Worcester. Since then, he lias resided in W. in comparative retire- 
ment, holding only the honorable and useful office of a Justice. His numer- 
ous friends, however, as though not satisfied with his enviable position in so- 
ciety, and convinced that he is the strongest man in the ranks of their conser- 
vative party, have sought to inflict on him a mission to Washington, but it is 
hoped that he and the entire race with which he is here incorporated, will main- 
tain integrity enough to keep them in these days, out of Congress as well as 
State Prison. He had 

i. Wm. Sumner, Sep. 80, 1824, at Oxford, m. Anne Elizabeth Jenni- 

son, Apl. 4, 1849, at Worcester, had Mary Barton, at W., Sep. 29, '43. 

ii. Anna Maria, Apl. 21, 1826, at Oxf., m. Nov. 7, '19, at W., John 

Wm. Bigelow, had at Medford, Wm. Blake, Feb. 5, '52. 

in. Artemas Bullafd, Aug. 12, 1828, d. June 21, '31, at Oxf. 

iv. Charles Henry, Apl. 10, '30, at O., m. Isabella Edwards, June 

20, '53, at Greensburc:, la., had at G., Maria Edwards, Apl. 8, '54. 

v. Artemas Bullard, Dec. 5, 1831. at Oxf.,d. Apl. 17, '37, atW. 

vi. Lucy Ann, Jly. 24, 1834, at Worcester. 

vii. Francis Augustus, Oct. 24, 1836, at W. 

viii. Edmund Mills, Sep. 27, 1838, at W. 

ix. George Edward, Jly. 30, 1841, at W. 
ii. Artemas, Rev. D. D., June 3, 1802, at Northbridge. 
Of his early history I have no knowledge. He grad. at Amherst Col. ; and 
studied divinity at Theo. Sem., Andover, where he'completed his course 
1827. Of his style and success as a preacher, of his vigilance and fidelity as 
a pastor, and of his labors and efficiency in the cause of general education 
and benevolence, I need not at present write. They are sure of preservation 
in the history of the Western country, and of the metropolis where he 
has latterly resided, and will constitute an instructive chapter in the future 
history of the Bullard race. 

He m. June 2, 1829, Ann T. Jones, b. Jan. 31, 1808, dg. of Samuel J., Esq., of 
Acton, by w. Anna Tuthill, sis. to Miss Sarah T. sec'y to Fem. Teachers' As3., 
Mass., and a descendant from the brother of Arch Bp. Leighton. He had 

i. Artemas Everett, Jly. 19, 1830, at Charlestown, Mass., d. Apl. 

13, '36. 

ii. Ann Maria, Jly. 19, 1832, at Boston, d. Apl. 28, '33, at Walnut 

Hills, O. 

in. Tho. Green F., Mar. 25, 1834, at W. Hills, d. Nov. '38, at St. Louis. 

iv. Rob't Leighton, Mar. 21, 1837, at W. Hills, d. Jan. 25, '48, at St. 

Louis. 

v. Henry, Sep. 23, 1839. 

vr. Anna Elizabeth, Sep. 29, 1842, d. Jan. 13, '48, at St. L. 

vn. Edward Payson, Jan. 19, 1845, d. Jan. 12, '48. Three of the 

above deaths, were with the scarlet fever, in the space of only 13 days, 
in. Asa, Rev. A. M., b. Mar. 2G, 1804, and like most men of his use- 
fulness, embraced the Gospel in his youth. It was in Feb., 1821, that he 
first indulged hopes in the pardoning mercy of God ; and on the 12tS of 
Aug. of the same year, was received into the Congregational chh. at Sut. He 
prepared for col. at Amherst Academy, and grad. there in 1828 ; engaged for 
the next year in teaching at Augusta, Me. ; entered And. Theo. Sem. in the 
Autumn of '29, but in Apl., '31, accepted an appointment as agent for the 
Maine Sabbath School Union, in which office he continued for three years, 
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34 l;i LLARD. 

during which ho superintended the establishment of at least 300 Sabbath 
Schools. On the 13th of Jan., 1832, he was ordained at Portland as an Evan- 
gelist. On Mar. 1, '34, he was called to the Secretaryship of the Mass. Sab- 
bath School Society, the duties of which office he has continued to discharge 
for 21 years, with a promptness and efficiency that command the gratitude of 
the public. Besides the other onerous duties of this office, be has edited 10 
vols, of the S. S. Visitor, and 11 do. of the Well Spring, and contributed to 
form the minds and hearts of hundreds of thousands, for time and eternity. 
He m. Lucretia Gr. Dickinson, May 16, 1832, dg. of the excellent and long 
to be remembered Samuel Fowler D. of Amherst, by w. Lucretia Gunn, 
from Montague, and had 

i. Catherine Dickinson, Aug 12, 1834, d. Aug. 17, '34. 

ii. Louisa Dana, Nov. 7, 1835. 

in. Wm. Read, Sep. 7, 1837. 

iv. Mary Elizabeth, Feb. 17, 1840. ' 

v. Helen Knight, Sep. 27, 1845. 
iv. Joseph, Oct. 30, 1806, s. on the Homestead at Sutton, m. Apl. 3, 1834, 
Olivia P. Hill, and had at Sutton, 

i. Eliza Ann, May 31, 1835. 

ii. Ira Barton, May 26, 1837, at Holden. 

in. Henry Beecher, Apl. 9, 1839. 

iv. Agnes Olivia, Aug. 20, 1841, d. Nov. 5, '41, at Holden. 

v. Franklin Eugene, Dec. 13, 1842. 
v. Lucy Ann, Nov., 1809, m. May 19, '31, Rev. Lot Jones, b. at Bruns- 
wick, Me., Feb. 22, 1797, grad. at Bowdoin Col., was Rector of the Epis. 
chh. at Clappville, but now of New York ; and had 

i. Wm. Henry, Mar. 14, 1832, d. Mar. 16, '38. 

ii. Maria Louisa, Jly. 12, 1834, at New York. 

hi. Emily, Nov. 27, 1835, d. Mar. 31, '36. 

iv. Lucy Ann, Mar. 23, 1837, d. Mar. 24, '37. 

v. Henry Lawrence, May 30, 1839. 
vi. Ebenezer Waters, Rev. A. M., Nov. 9, 1809, prepared for Col. at the 
Academy in Amherst, and pursued his studies for three years at the Col. in that 
place. Here it was in 1831, during a re vival of religion, that he first enter- 
tained Christian hopes, and had his heart turned to the ministry. The West- 
ern Country presented a field for all his ardor and enterprise ; and as a measure 
preparatory to the greater usefulness in that field, he transferred his relation 
from Amherst Col. to Miami University at Oxford, O., where he grad. 
In 1834, he entered Lane Theo. Sem. at Walnut Hills, Oh.; returned in 
feeble health to Mass., '36; was licensed in Nov. that year by the Harm'y 
Asso. ; ord. Pastor of the Calvinistic Congl. Chh. in Fitchburg, Aug. 8, '38 ; 
dismissed from his charge, Jly. 1, '52 ; reinstalled at Royalston, Sep. 2, en- 
suing, where he now resides. He m. Aug. 8, 1838, Mary P. Smith, dg. of 
Oliver S. ; of Hadley, b. June 6, 1813, d. Dec. 2, '41. He m. 2d, Harriet 
N. Dickinson, Sep. 15, '43, dg. of Dea. Wm. D., of Hadley, and b. Mar. 5, 
1818. He had 

i. Harriet Marguerite, Nov. 28, '44. 

it. Caroline, Feb. 6, '47. 

in. Lucy Ann, Aug. 31, '49. 

iv. Wm. Ebenezer, Jan. 23, '52. 

v. Edmund Dickinson, Sep. 20, '53, at Royalston. 
vn. Eunice White, Aug. 3, or 26, 1812, m. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 
viit. Talbut, M. D., Aug. 16, 1815, m. Aug. 1, '39. Susan B. Cotten. 



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ix. Jesse Mason, Nov. 12, 1818, lost urn. with the ship Albert R. Harris, 
off the Bay of San Francisco, Feb. 3, 1851. 

x. Oliver Crosby, Jan. 20, 1822, m. Sarah Jane Hartwell, at Sutton, Oct. 
19, '43, settled in Sutton ; and had 

i. Wm. Sumner, Sep. 11, '44. 

n. Lizzie Jane, Jan. 11, '47. 

in. Lucy Maria, Feb. 2, '50. 

iv. Isabella Henderson, b, and d. May 17, '54, at Lenox. 

53. 80. Joshua, m. Bathiah Taft, 1782, s. in Milford and had i. Nathan, 7 May 17, 
1783; ii. Josiah, 7 Oct. 4. '86; m. Lewis, 7 Apl. 12, '92; iv. Lydia, 7 Dec. 
13, '94. 

44. 81. Lewis, m. Eliza Fisk, dg. of John F. of S., r. Bos., had i. Harriet, 7 d. a. 18. 
ii. Elizabeth, 7 'd. yg. ; in. Elizabeth, 7 m. Joel Nurse of Bos. 

48. 82. Leonard, m. Amy Breck, dg. of Daniel B., of S., by w. Patty Learned, and 
grd. dg. of Elijah B. by w. Sarah Hill, and gr. grd. dg. of John B., by 
w. Mehetabel Morse (dg. of Hn. C:pt. Joseph Morse), and gr. gr. grd. dg. 
of Tho. B., of S., by w. Mary Hill, (dg. of John H., of Dorchester,) and pr. 
gr. gr. gr. grd. dg. of Edwd. B., of Dorch. He has been a trader in Bos., but 
now r. in S. He had i. Harriet, 7 Aug. 2, 1827, r. Sh. ; ii Leonard, 7 Mar. 
18, '30, d. May 19, '33. in. Almira L., 7 Aug. 10, '33, d. Sept. 23, '33. 

47. 83. Braton, w. Irene (Death) Ware, b. Ap. 7, 1789, wid. of Henry W. and dg. 
of Henry D., by w. Huldah Penniman, and grd. dg. of Henry D., by w. 

Rachel Leland, and gr. grd. dg. of John D., Esq., by w. Waitstill , and 

gr. gr. grd. dg. of John and Mary D., fr. Topsfield to Sb. in 1678, had at S., 
i. Elizabeth, Nov. 10, 1816, d. yg. ; ii. Henry Ware, Mar. 31, '18, m. Caro- 
line Babcock ; in. Irene, July 17, '20, m. Orrin J. Ranlett, r. Waltham ; 
iv. Elizabeth, Nov. 17. 21, m. Joseph Dowse, jun., r. S. ; v. Amos, Jan. 4, 
'24, m. Mary Ann Chamberlain, r. S. ; vi. Lewis Fisk, Feb. 28, '26, died 
yg. ; vn. Sarah, Jan. 7, '28, r. S. ; vin. Joseph Ware, Ap. 2, '30, m. 
Mary Goulding, Dec. 10, '54, rs. S. 

12. 84. John" seems to have inherited a part of his father's farm which fell into the 
N. part of Medway, near the S. E. corner of Holl., and almost surrounded 
by Bogistow Brook. He m. Abig'l Leland, 4 b. Feb. 17, 1683, m. Jan. 7, 
1702, dg. of Hopestill L., 3 by w. Abig'l Hill, 3 and grd. dg. of Henry L., 2 by 
w. Margaret Babcock, and gr. grd. dg. of Hopestill L., 1 the Puritan, who 
came from Yorkshire, Eng., landed and settled at Weymouth, and d. at 
Medfield, "1655, aged 75," the patriarch to whom belonged the honors 
that have been paid to the memory of his son Henry. John had at Med., 
i. Thankful, 4 m. John Harding, of Med., was gr. gd. mother to Rev. Sewell H. 

96. 85. ii. John, 4 May 16, 1705, m. Sarah Daniels, Feb. 20, '33. Her platter, 
marked S. B., was presented to Mrs. Galim Bullard, of S.; in. Abigail 
Dec. 4, 1708, m. Tim. Clark, of Med., and was the gr. gr. grd. mother of 
Rev. Geo. Walker, of Holl.; iv. Hannah, 4 May 12, '14, d. ab. 1800, m. 
Henry Daniels, of Medway, 1733, who d. in his 99th yr. ; 
v. Mary, 4 Ap. 7, 1717, m. Moses Harding, of Medfield, and had Nathan, 
Henry, &c. ; vi. Comfort, 4 Mar. 2, 1721, m. Jona. Wheeler, of Med., and 
was the gr. grd. mother of Rev. Mrs. Sewell Harding. 

99. 86. vi. Henry, 4 Oct. 1, 1723, d. Ap. 30, 1799, m. Jemima Pond, fr. Wrcn- 
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13. 87. Malachi, 3 s. H, m. N. of Medway Village, where Mrs. Lois. Bullard now 

resides, m. Bethia Fisher, dg. of Josiah Fisher, and grd. dg. of Anthony, fr. 

Dedham. He had 
108. 88. i. Malachi, 4 Ap. 27, 1710, m. Eachael Hill, b. May 26, 1711, m.May 21,'31. 

ii. Keziah 4 , Dec. 2, 1711, d. about 1802, m. James Partridge, of M. 
110. 90. in. Elisha, 4 Aug. 15 '14, m. Bathsheba Fisher, Aprl 9, 1736,was very stout. 

iv. Eleazer, 4 Sept. 17, '17, died June 12, 1726 ; v. Lydia, 4 June 25, '20, d. 

June 7, 1730. 

14. 92. Isaac, 3 s. in Sherborn, now N. part of H., drew, 1715 and '30, in Dgl., 70 acres. 
He made his will July 6, 1742, giving the improvement of his house and lands 

to his wife Sarah during the minority of his son, Isaac, after which Isaac should 
occupy one half until her decease, when an equal division of what had been his 
home lands, including 70 acres previously given to his son Samuel, shd. be made to 
the two sons. He also mentioned his three daughters, all then living and married. 
Sarah and Samuel were made executors, and presented their account Sept., '43. His 
estate was appraised Sept. 15, 1742, but his will (see Mid. Prob.) seems not to have 
been proved. Sarah was appointed, Aug. 13, 1742, guardian to her son Isaac, then 
in his 10th year. 
Isaac, 3 m. Sarah Morse, dg. of Lt. Sam'l M., of Medf'ld, had i. Marj 4 , Mar. 28, 

1711, m. John Haven, of Fram., Mar. 9, '31-2. 
119. 93. ii. Samuel, 4 Capt., Jan. 11, '14-15, d. May 27, '93, m. Deborah Morse. 

in. Sarah, 4 Oct. 3, '18, m. Ephm. Littlefield, of H., May 30, '35 ; 

iv. Elizabeth, 4 Feb. 18, '20-1, m. Aaron Jones, of H., Mar. 17, '36-7. 
121. 95. Isaac, 4 Oct. 9, '26, d. Jan. 12, 1814, m. Beulah Leland. 

85. 96. John 4 s. on part of the homestead in Med. His w. was Sarah Daniels, b. 
May 1, 1707, dg. of Joseph D., and grd. dg. of Joseph D. of Medf d, who 
m. Mary Fairbanks, Nov. 16, 1665. He had i. John, 5 Dec. 1, 
1733, d. yg. ; n Sarah, 5 Jan. 1, '35-6, m. David Fisk, of Hoi., and was 
the mother of Timo. Fisk, A. M., M. D., of H. 
125. 98. in. Timothy, 6 Mar. 21, '40, d. Jan. 6, 1827, a. 87, at Med.; 
iv. Nathan, 5 May 16, '48, pr. d. yg. 



86. 99. Henry, 4 s. on the homestead in Med., m. Jemima Pond, Mar. 14, 1745-6, 
who d. May 19, '66. He m. 2. Abigail Morse, dg. of Nath'l M., by w. 
Sarah Cooledge, and grd. dg. of Jos. M. by w. Pris. Colburne, and gr. grd. 
dg. of John M., and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Sam'l M., had i. Mary, 5 Oct. 14, 
1746, d. Feb. 18, 1825, m. Timo. Hill, '66, r. S. and H. ; 

130. 100. ii. Henry, 5 Apl. 29, 1749, d. May 11, 1821, m. Kebecca Kichardson ; 

131. 101. in. Adam, 5 Aug. 10, 1752. d. Mar. 8, 1843, m. Lois Richardson, her 

sister ; 

132. 102. iv. John, 5 A. M., Nov, 28, '56, m. Elizabeth Adams, dg. of Rev. Amos 

A., of Roxbury ; 

133. 103. v. Eli, 5 Esq., A. M., Nov. 16, '58, d. May, 1824, m. Ruth Buckmins- 

ter, of Fram. ; 

134. 104. vi. Royal, 5 Apl. 21, '62, d. Mar. 25, 1785, m. Ruth Penniman, of 

Med.; 

135. 105. vii. Samuel, 5 May 15, '66, d. Sep. 1830, m. Abig'l Bullard, dg. of Tim. 

B. By 2d w. Abigail, he had vm. Abigail, 5 Apl. 11, '73, d. Sep. 24, '76; 
ix. Marg't, Nov. 1, '75, d. Oct. 14, '76; 

136. 106. x. Liberty, 5 Nov. 11, '77, d. ab. 1848, m. Abig'l Learned, 2d 

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137. 107. xi. Amos, 5 Feb. 25, '80, d. ab- 1818, in. Abigail Adams, dg. of Obadi- 
ah of Med. ; xir. Abigail, 5 Aug. 11, '83, m. Thomas Burbank,°r. Warren. 

88. 108. Malachi, m. Rachel Hill, dg. of Samuel H., of Med., by w. Rachel 
Adams,* and settled H- m. N. of Med. village on the homestead ; had only 
109. i. Isaac, 5 b. July 9, 1744, m. Mary Fisher, dg. of Dea. Sam'l Fisher, a 
desdt. of Lieut. Joshua F., of Ded. 

90. 110. Elisha, 4 s. 1-3 m. W. of his br. Malachi, where Seth Hixon resides, 
inheriting pr. one half of his father's homestead, which he sold to Samuel 
Howard, and rm. He had by w. Bathsheba Fisher, b. May 4, 1714, d». of 
Samuel F., by w. Mary Rocket, of Wrenth., i. Lydia, 5 Nov. 26, 17*36 • 
H. Miriam, 5 Nov. 24, '39 ; If. Samuel, 5 Oct, 4, '41, all three of whom died 
Jan. '41-2 ; if. Seth, 5 Feb. 1, '43 ; in. Abijah, 5 Jan. 3, '44-5 • 
iv. Samuel, 5 Oct. 19, '46, d. Apl. 24, '54 ; v. Daniel, 5 Dec. 26,' '48 • 

118. 114. vi. Elijah, 5 Jan. 11, '50-1, m. Milcah , and r. Holl. ; 

115. vn. Elisha, 5 Mar. 26, '52, m. Rachel Rockwood, b. Apl. 26, '56, dg 
of Benj. R. of Wrenth., by w. Ruth Mann, he then of Franklin- 
vin. Malachi, 5 May 6, '53, d. Oct. 1, '56; ix. John, 5 Sep. 12,' '55 • 
117.x. Abel, 5 Aug. 29, '57; xi. Baruch, 5 Dec. 16, '58, 'm. Julitta 
Messinger, of H., Apl. 24, '78, and one other child not recorded. 

93. 119. Samuel, 4 Cpt., s. in the N. part of Hoi. on a part of his father's farm 
m. Deborah Morse, dg. of James M., by w. Ruth Sawin, and o-rd. do-, of 
Capt. Joseph M., of S., by w. Hanh. Babcock, who was b. 1718, m. Julv 
12, '39, d. Nov. 25, 1801. He had J 

141. 120. i. Samuel, 5 Esq., Sep. 5, '42, d. Jan 27, 1816; n. Deborah, 5 Nov. 23, 
'47, m. Matthew Metcalf, of Hopk., had i. Fisher, n. Matthew. 

95. 121. Isaac, 4 Cpt., m. Beulah Leland, b. Dee. 9, 1726, m. Mar. 27, '46, who 
d Dec. 27, '84, dg. of Henry L., of S„ by wife Mary Morse ; and 2d. 
Miriam Twitchell, Apl. 5, 1787, who d. July 13, 1801, a. 57, inherited the 
homestead in H., and had i. Anna, May 7, 1747, m. David Whitino-, 
ii. Isaac, 5 Dec. 8, 1754, m. Martha Hill, May 22, '83, had no issue ; 

140. 123. in. Eleazer, 5 Dec. 4, '64, m. Jemima Hill, and Ann M. Stodder ■ 
iv. Mary, 5 '67; 

150. 124. v. Joel, 5 Apl. 10, '71, m. Lucretia Morton ; ti. Martha, 5 ; vn. Olive 5 . 

98. 125. v. Timothy, 5 s. in E. Medway. He m. Rhoda Richardson, b. Oct. 6 1746 
d. May 19, 1811, dg. of Moses R. (d. Ap. 6, 1797, a. 80) by w.Abig'i 
Allen (d. June 10, 1807, a. 90), and grd. dg. of John R. (d. May 19, 1759, a 

80) by w. Esther , who d. with a cancer, Aug. 17, 1774, in her 96th 

year. She remembered having often been taken in her childhood to Bul- 
lard's Fort for safety, and of fleeing thither with her children at alarms' of 
Indian hostilities nearly fifty years after Philip's war. Her s. Samuel R. d. 
in Wrenth. 1811, aged 96 yrs. and 1 mo. Timo. B. had 

147. 126. i. Galim, G June 17, 1765, d. in Sherborn, 1853, m. Sarah Daniels. 

129. ii. Ralph, 6 Dec. 10, '66, m. Ama Penniman, s. in M., had John, who inherits 
his place ; in. Abigail, 6 Aug. 13, '68, m. Samuel Bullard ; 
iv. Rhoda, 6 Dec. 25, '70, m. Maj. Timo. Whiting, of Med. 

100. 130. Henry, 5 s. in the S. E. part of Holl. He built the house now occupied 

* Grd. dg. of Samuel Hill, of Medfield, by w. Hannah Twitchell, and pr. «r. grd. dg. of John H., 
of Sherborn, and doubtless gr. gr. grd. dg. of John H., of Dorchester, 1633. 



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by his grd. b. Henry B., m. Rebecca Richardson, sister of Rboda above, 
b. Ap. o, 1751, and d. June 15, 1838. He had i. Henry, 6 Feb. 15 1774, 
m. Hanh Curtis b. May 25, '75 dg. of Jos. C, of M., r. Holden, where he 
was tound d. in Ins bed, Mar., 1881, leaving 4 children viz* 

r ^ Ja . me ? K{ h ,J*2 Y - }$* ^ m - Ann Smith, from Worcester, had 
Maria L., 8 b. 1827 ; Chs. P., 8 1829 ; Horace A. 8 '32 • Levi C. 8 '36 
ii. Henry,' b Jan. 20 1802, m. Caroline Gilberts, r.W. Brookfieid, had 
Emerson, Oilman, Martha A. (d.,) Emer. M. Jones 

^\ Si hv b -. J fe* ? 9 ' 1806 ' m - Adaline J - Gilmore, fr. Franklin, r. 
F., had Maria W. 8 Feb. 20, 1834 ; Mary C 8 ; Helen if. 8 : EltethA* 
iv. Aroasa C., 7 born July 21, 1812, r. W. Brookfieid. 
ii. Rebecca, Aug. 22, 1777, m. Reuben Hill, r. E. Med had 

I. David/ '98, d. 1839, m. Sarah Crooks, had Sarah? Keziah, 8 Sam% 8 

E^i~abeth 8 ' ^ DaVid DaDielS ' had Francis >* David >* 

in Moses, 6 Sept. 20 1779, r. Princeton, m. Elizabeth Clark, b. Nov. 16, 
1782, dg. of Samuel C, jun., of S., by w. Elizabeth Learned, and grd. dg. of 
Samuel C. sen., by w. Mary More, and gr. grd. dg. of Arthur C.? of S., by 
w. Hannah Morse, gr. grd. dg. of Samuel M., of Medfield, and had 

i. Calvm/ Mar. or May 17, 1805, m. Mary Ann Gleason, r. Worces., 
had ' 

Harriet E* '1830, Ghas. H. 8 '32, Sarah a, 8 '35, Caroline A.? '37. 

w £ r ° ? e 'n"?J}' 18 ?^r m - Erasmus D ' Goodnow, of Princeton, 
had Emily C 8 1832, and Wm. Edw., 8 1839 

m. Charles/ Nov. 9 1809, m. Elizabeth G. Gleason, had Chs., 1836, 
trances C, 1839, Ame Ellen, 1844. 

iv Harriet/ Ap 7, 1812, m. Charles Smith, M. D., rs. Worcester, 
had Chas. Z>.,1841. 

y Elizabeth/ June 13, 1814, m. Aaron White, of Med., had Geo. A., 
1841, E. Mary and Emily. 

yi Reb^ca/ Aug. 26, 1816, m. Daniel How, of P., had Sarah M., 
1844, Wm. E., 1847. 

vii. Joanna/ Oct. 20, 1818; vm. Mary, Aug. 9, 1821 d 1844 

?i E rA(/ uly V 23 ' r?- Gates ' and d ' ' 46 ^ i- Samuel C, 

Feb. 15, '26 ; xr. Moses Henry, Jan. 31, '29. 

iv Titus, 6 Mar 15, 1783 d^ Jan. 8, 1849, s. in Holl., m. Esther Whiting, 
b. Oct. 9, 1786, dg. Elias W., of Med, had 8 

I. Adeline/ May 4, 1810, d. Dec. 7, '39, m. Timo. Whiting, of Cin- 
cinnati, Oh. had Adrianah (d.), Adaline E. (d.), Marshall (d.) 
Adaline E. (d.), Horatio, Dec. 4, 1839. 

ii. Joanna/ Nov. 4, 1812, d. Oct. 1, '44, m. Wm. Wight, of Holl., 
had Henry M. (d.), Jane Joanna, 1836, Winthrop (d ) 
in. Henry/ July 13, 1815, m. Bethia S. Wheeler," r. H. had Lewis 
Henry, Nov. 8, '41 ; Alice Rebecca, Mar. 29/44 ; Albert W., July 27 
46, ; Ellen Eliza, Dec. 8, '49 ; Frances Joanna, June 4, '53 
iv. Rebecca/ Oct. 4, 1819, m. Nathaniel Whiting, rs. Watertown, had 
Adaline M, Jan. 25, '38, Wm. H, May, '43, Arthur A 7 :, May, '45 
v. John A./ Oct. 31, 1822, m. Frances I. R. Sargent, rs. Watertown. 

v. Joanna, 6 Mar. 21, 1792, m. Elias Whiting, r. Med. Til., had only Geo./ 
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101. 131. Adam,"' m. Lois Richardson, b. Feb. 1, 1749-50, dg. of Moses R. 
above, and m. 1777. Mr. B. remained in his native place, erected mills 
in the N. E. part of the town, purchased and built upon the place formerly 
Rev. Mr. Bucknam's, and was a very enterprising, efficient man, and much 
respected citizen. He had 

i. Peggy, 6 July 27, 1778, m. Aaron Thayer, r. Hanover, Pa., had 
i. Cyrus B., 7 May 3, 1807, m. Abig'l Tildon, and d. May, 1840, at 
Havana, Cuba, having had Helen? '27 (d.), Solon C, Aug. 9, '28, 
Cyras B., Jan. 18, '30, Clinton, '32, Ambrose, Dec. 7, '34, Mary 
Jane, '37 (d.), Wm., '39, (d.) 

ii. Amanda M., 7 Oct. 6, 1805, m. Asahel Carpenter, r. Vt., Canada 
and Pa., and d. in 111., Nov. 5, 1839, having had Judd, May 4, '23, 
Fred., Jan. 2, '25, Cyrus, Nov. 17, '30, John, June 8, '32 (d.), Aman- 
da, Nov., '37 (d.), Emmet, Aug. 7, '39. 

in. Louisa, 7 Dec. 17, 1809, in Vt., m. Preston Richardson, A. B., 
(d.), 2d Rev. Edward Allen, Presb., has had and lost 2 chd., r. Pa. 

iv. Alma, 7 Jan. 16, 1810, in Canada, m. E Tiffany, r. Hartford, 

Pa., had Lucinda, '32, Alonzo, '34, Judson, '37, Melvina, '3d, Cyrus, 
'41, Edward, '47. 

v. Ira, 7 Dec. 29, 181- d. Sept. 27, 1812. 

vi. Louisa, 7 July 13, 1812, d. Ap., 1837, m. Geo. Blakeslee, had 
Amanda, '35, Ellen Louisa, '37, (d.) 

vn. Davis, 7 Oct. 7, 1815, m. Catherine Grunt, had Levi, '42, Ann, 
'44, Aaron Everett, '45. 

viii. Margaret, 7 Dec. 15, 1817, m. Henry Fuller, '43, and d. '44. 
ix. Jemima, 7 June 8, 1820, m. Henry Fuller, '46, r. Johnstown, Oh., 
had Frank, '47. 
ii. Cyrus, 6 March 6, 1780, d. urn., Ap. 18, 1806. This was a remarkable 
young man, the pride and ornament of his native town, as we can well re- 
member. It is not easy for the younger generation to estimate the evidence 
of his talents by modern comparisons. For a youth of such limited oppor- 
tunities, 55 years ago, to conceive the design of breaking away from the 
seclusion and monotony of rural life, and of embarking in such adventurous 
enterprises, and to be able to satisfy cautious friends of his competency, was 
a very different thing from doing it now. He sailed from Providence, Dec. 
1, 1800, for Chili, where he arrived July, 1801, and took up his residence 
at Conception. Here he devoted some months to the acquisition of Spanish. 
Subsequently he gained employment as a linguist. During a portion of his 
time at C, he worked in gold and diamonds, and kept a store of jewelry. 
Sept. 3, 1803, he sailed for the Island of Masafuro. Here he remained 
from Sept. 11, until March 7, 1804, purchasing furs for the China market, 
with which he arrived at Canton in Sept. following. Having transacted his 
business here and recovered from dangerous sickness, he sailed in Nov. for 
America, and arrived at Nantucket, Ap. 7, 1805. Nov. following, he sailed 
from Boston as master and supercargo in the brig Littiller, for Guadaloupe, 
and after a prosperous voyage, returned to B., Feb. 11, 1806. Fifteen days 
after he sailed again, in the employ of the same house, for the same island, 
which he left on the 13th of Ap. for St. Thomas. Here he was arrested by 
a fever, with which he died Ap., 1806, a. 26. The news of his death threw a 
pall over the entire community of Medway, and the watchful pastor, Rev. 
. Luther Wright, added his voice to that of Providence, in a public discourse 
which by request was published, 
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hospitable and venerated mansion of her father, in E. Med., and has kindly 
contributed much to this collection. 

iv. Adam," Jan. 27, 1783, drowned at sea, um., Oct., 7, 1809, on a return 
voyage from Eng. to New York. In him terminated the name of Bullard 
in the line of his father. 

v. Lois, June 12, 1787, d. Feb. 11, 1825, m. Wm. Lacroix, r. Ded., had 
i. AVm., 7 Jan. 17, 1816, d. Ap., '40 ; n. Emily, 7 June 26, '17, d. Oct., '19. 
in. Frederick, 7 May 7, '19. 
iv. Laura, 7 Nov. 1, '20, d. '44 ; v. Louis, 7 Ap. 7, '22, d. '44. 

vi. James, 7 Nov. 30, '23, m. Mary , had Geo. James, Oct. 18, '54. 

vn. Edmond, 7 Feb. 6, '25, m. Eliza, and had Henry Leland, Oct. 3, 

'52, d. '53 ; Fred. Wells, Ap. 20, '54. 

102. 132. John, 5 Rev. A. M., Har. Col., 1776, studied divinity with Rev. Dr. 

Prentice, of Medfield, was ordained and settled as the minister ef Pepperell, 

Oct. 18, 1779, where he d. Sep. 18, 1821, a. 68, an example of piety, and 

ministerial dignity and conciliation. 

He m. Elizabeth Adams, eldest dg. of Rev. Amos Adams, of Roxb., by w. 
Elizb. Chauncey, dg. of the Rev. Charles Chauncey, D. D., of Boston, one 
of the most eminent ministers cf his times in N. Engd. Her father, Rev. 
Amos Adams, was b. at Medfield, Sep. 1, 1728, grad. at Har. Col. 1752, 
was ord. at Roxb. Sep. 12, 1753, where he d. Oct., 3 '75 ; a man of general 
learning and the author of valuable historical discourses. He was the son of 
Henry A., by w. Jemima Morse, dg. of Hon. Joshua M., of M., by w. Mary 
Paine, from Braintree, of the same family as Hon. Robert Treat P., signer 
of the Declaration. His father was the son of Henry A., by wife Prudence 
Frarie, a woman of distinguished family, and of eminent piety and talents, 
who "lived to see the fifth generation," and the grandsen of Henry A., 
clerk of writs, and often representative of Medfield, who with his w. Eliza- 
beth Paine from Braintree, perished at the Indian massacre at M., Feb. 1G, 
'75-6; and the gr. grd. son of Henry Adams, of Braintree, now Quincy. 
Rev. John Bullard, had at Pepperell : 
r. Elizabeth, m. Henry Bass, mercht. of Boston, and had 

i. Sarah Elizabeth, 7 who m. Fred. A. Gray, mercht., Bos., and 
had Henry Gray, 8 late of the Custom House, New York ; 
. ii. Henry Bass, 7 A. M., Har. U., 1819, and M. D, d. um. 1826 ; 
in. John Bass, 7 d. 1827, at Prairie Bluff, Al. ; 
iv. Wm. Bass, 7 who resided with his family on Fox R., 111. ; 
v. George James, 7 who d. at Pepperell, a. 16 ys. ; vi. Lucretia Bass, 7 
who d. a. 8 y. ; vn. Amos Bass, 7 who died at Natchitoches, La. ; 
viii. Mary H. Bass, 7 who m. Henry Hanford, of Clinton, La., and 
has 4 children ; ix. Lucretia Bass, 7 who m. Wm. Winter, Esq., of Clin- 
ton, La., and d., leaving one son ; x. Charles, 7 who d. a. 5 years, 
ii. Lucretia Bullard, 6 d. June 22, 1827, m. Samuel Parker, mercht. 1817, and 
had Elizabeth Lucretia, 7 who m. Wm. Henry Prince, A. M., M. D., of 
Salem, June 27, 1843, and has 1. Louise, 8 and 2. John, 8 ; Mrs. Lucretia 
Bullard Parker m. 2d, Hon. Benj. M. Farley, Esq., of Hollis, N. H., where 
she now resides ; 

in. John Bullard, m. Sarah Parker, of Pepp., 1808, became a mercht. in 
Alab., and had 

i. John Parker, 7 A. M., Nov., 1809, who grad. 1829, at H. U., m. 
Lucy Brigham, fr. Cambrdg. ; settled in Clinton, La., where he d. 
leaving a son John, 8 now r. with his mother in Boston. He was a man 
of active benevolence and great promise. When at Col., he was among 



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the first to espouse the cause of temperance ; and afterwards in seasons 

of great mortality, he was accustomed to leave his business and visit and 

pray with the sick and dying ; 

ii. Sarah E., 7 Sep. 11, 1811, d. Dec. 10, '35, of consumpn. ; 

ni. Mary L., 7 Jly. 15, 1813, d. Oct. 7, '44, at Pepp., m. John F. 

Williams, M. D., r. Natchitoches, had i. John James, 8 Dec. 10, '42, 

ii. MaryL. B., 8 Sep. 7, '44; 
iv.Henry Adams Bullard, A. M. and S. H. S., b. Sep. 9, 1788, d. Apl., 
1851. The following obituary appeared in the New Orleans Crescent, soon 
after. 

THE LATE JUDGE BULLARD. 

" A sense of duty, heightened by personal friendship, leads us to attempt a brief 
sketch of Henry Adams Bullard, whose death we recorded yesterday. He was 
born in Pepperell, Massachusetts — of which town his father was the minister — on 
September 9th, 1788. On the mother's side, he was closely connected with the 
distinguished family, whose name he bears. Ho was educated at Harvard Univer- 
sity, and graduated in the class of 1S07, at the age of nineteen. At the time, 
French was the only modern language taught in that institution. But while he 
pursued his law studies, both in Boston and Philadelphia, he acquired the Spanish, 
Italian, and German, all of which he critically understood and appreciated. It is 
only a few months since we found him and his son reading Mifflin's Tasso, with the 
original, and heard from his 'unpremeditated talk,' an essay on the ' Jerusalem,' 
which would have furnished a professional lecturer with an evening's dissertation. 

In Philadelphia, the acquaintances formed through his knowledge of the Spanish, 
brought him in contact with Gen. Toledo, who was organizing an expedition to 
revolutionize New Mexico. Judge Bullard, then just admitted to the Bar, joined 
him as an Aid and Military Secretary, and proceeded with him to Nashville, where 
be passed the winter of 1812. The following spring he accompanied Gen. Toledo, 
and the recruits, to Natchitoches, which was the starting point. They entered the 
Mexican territory and found the people already in arms, and the royal troops driven 
out of what now constitutes Texas, except the force in San Antonio ; but these 
retired at the approach of the Bepublicans. Here they remained several weeks, 
until the Spanish General, having concentrated an overwhelming force, defeated the 
Bepublicans in a pitched battle, and scattered their forces in every direction. 
Judge Bullard was mounted, and with one or two companions, managed to reach the 
American settlements, after suffering severe hardships. When he entered Natchi- 
toches he was ragged, sick — broken down by fatigue and privation, and, worse than 
all, penniless. Here he opened an office, and commenced the practice of his profes- 
sion. Natchitoches, in point of age, is second to New Orleans, and at that time, 
was second in importance. It was the trading post for the Indians and Mexicans 
within an extensive circuit. The great raft prevented all intercourse by river above, 
and it was virtually the head of navigation on Bed Biver. 

The removal of the raft, the purchase of the Indian lands, and the removal of the 
Indians — the introduction of steamboats, and the facility of communication with 
New Orleans, all have tended to the decline of the ancient town. All that period, 
a practising lawyer of the Western District was compelled to ride a circuit, 
embracing Opelouses, Avoyelles, Alexandria, Natchitoches, Ouachita and Concordia, 
a distance of three hundred miles. The practice was lucrative, and the bar num- 
bered more talent and learning, than at any subsequent period. The names of 
Wilson, Johnston, Brent, Porter, Bowen, Bronson, Thomas, and Bullard, would 
have done honor to any bar. Of these, General Isaac Thomas alone remains at the 
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bar — himself and Mr. Bronson alone survive. It was a life of great physical hard- 
ship, yet one of much enjoyment. 

Some years since, we rode from Natchez to Alexandria with Judge Bullard and 
Gen. Thomas. It was a region over which, some thirty years before, they had 
travelled twice a year. Scarcely a spring or brook was passed, which did not call 
up some interesting reminiscence, and they lived over again the scenes of their 
active and adventurous youth; and the younger men, who accompanied them, 
almost regretted that they, too, had not lived in those days of freedom and manly 
exercise. 

In 1822, Judge Bullard went upon the District Court Bench, and performed its 
duties for several years, when he resigned ; but, after a year or two, returned. In 
1831, he was elected to Congress, from the Western District, and re-elected the 
next term. In 1834, he was elevated to the Supreme Bench, taking the place of 
Judge Porter, who went into the Senate of the United States. In Congress, Judge 
Bullard was not among the debaters. He spoke occasionally, on great questions, and 
after careful preparation. His most elahorate speech was on the Tariff bill, in 1832. 

He remained on the Supreme Bench from 1834 till 184G, with the exception of 
a few months in '39, when he filled the office of Secretary of State, and resumed 
the practice of his profession. Under the Constitution of '45, a new Judiciary was 
created, and not one of the members of the Supreme Court retained. He returned 
to his practice in this city, and was retained in much of the important litigation of 
the State. His decisions are models of judicial rhetoric ; brief, perspicuous and 
pointed. As a writer, Judge Bullard had few equals ; he wrote without effort, yet 
with a critical accuracy that defied correction. As a speaker, he had the advantage 
of a face of extreme beauty, which the ravages of excruciating disease for twenty- 
five years did not destroy, a speaking eye, and a musical voice. But his command 
of language was not copious, and though he always used the aptest words, he 
sometimes hesitated in selecting them. When, however, excited, he spoke with 
feeling, force and eloquence. His last public speech in New Orleans, was at the 
Bar meeting, called together by the death of Mr. Prentiss. He then spoke with 
much emotion, and pronounced one of the most beautiful eulogies in the language. 
On that mournful occasion, he thus spoke of himself: 

' Who would have thought that I, whose career is ended — that I, whose sands are 
fast dropping away — that I, with my age and physical infirmities — I whose children 
no longer require a father's solicitude, should have survived to pay this feeble 
tribute to his memory ; while he, the young, the noble-hearted, the gifted — in the 
fulness of his fame and usefulness — sinks into an early grave, and leaves behind him 
a youthful and pious wife and four orphan children, to weep for his loss '? How 
inscrutable are the ways of Providence ! ' 

Among the many noble traits of his character, on which his friends will love to 
dwell, was his interest in the younger members of the Bar. We remember well the 
embarrassment with which, as an unknown young lawyer, from the woods, we first 
appeared before that awful body, the Supreme Court, and we can never forget the 
kindness of his manner, the considerate attention which he bestowed on the obscure 
advocate, at once restoring confidence and winning gratitude. Such, too, was the 
remark of other young men, under the same trying circumstance ; and even when 
suffering the torments of the gout, we never knew him to show any ill feeling to the 
younger and humbler members of the Bar. He kept up to the last his habit of 
general reading, and was familiar with all the best authors, of all languages. His 
conversation was that of a full man, without the slightest approach to pedantry. It 
may well be said of him, that 

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He delivered many lectures and addresses before the literary societies of this city 
which might tie well compared with similar productions of men who make literature 
a profession. In 1847, ho was appointed Professor of the Civil Law, in the Law 
fccnool or Louisiana, and delivered two courses of lectures. In 1850 he was 
elected to fill a vacancy in the State Legislature, and a few weeks after was elected 
? 5? n V ifr a n Cy m ^° SeCOnd ( ' on S™ssional District, occasioned by the entrance 
ot Mr. C. M. Conrad into the Cabinet. Judge Bollard thus returned to Conn-ess 
after an absence of sixteen years. lie found but few of his old friends in cither 
House. He did not speak during the short session, though we know it had been his 
wish to do so on the California Bills. His thorough knowledge of the Spanish laws 
and their systein of land titles, would have enabled him to give Congress much 
valuable information, which is now lost. During the session, he argued several 
cases in the Supreme Court, and was treated with marked attention by that talented 
and learned Bench. 

His health during the winter was remarkably good, and the cold, dry climate 
braced his constitution. But he imprudently returned home by the Southern route 
and the fatigue and exposure of the journey completely prostrated him. He 
lingered for three weeks, and died at last from the gout in the stomach— His funeral 
was attended by a large number of the Bar, the Judges of the Supreme Court and 
many of the most prominent citizens." 

Judge Bollard m. Sarah Keasar ? and had 

i. Henry/ who d. 1852 ; n. Charles/ who rs. at San Francisco ; m. Mary 
Ann' ; iv. Virginia 7 j v. Julia. 7 J 

v. Royal, Rev. A. M., May, 1789, grad. 1810, at Yale Col. 

f 1 ?'-^- . 2 p. 1820 > M ks Esther Lewis Marry, b. at Camden, S. C, Nov 
o, 1800. After spending most of his years at the S., he in 1829, removed 
to Cincinnati, Ohio, and from thence to Lancaster, and next to Mount 
Carmel ; employed most of the time as agent for the American Sund. School 
VT v •• n S b 7 re P rescntat ions of the character and prospects 
of the Prairie Country and by the desire to plant religious institutions there 
before opposition should become organized against them, he disposed of his 
place at Mt. C. in 1833, and removed to Hennipen, in N. Ill, and the next 
year, as was then the custom of settlers, took measures to secure a claim 
on government land 25 miles above the mouth of Fox R„ where he finally 
settled with his family, and spent the remainder of his days in superintend- 
ing the opening of his farm, collecting the settlers around as they arrived 
and showing them the only way to a better country. Thus closed the life of 
another descendant of Prudence Frarie, in the exalted pursuit of doin* rood 
He d. Dec. 13, 1846, at Millbrook Farm, Kendall Co., 111. He had" • 
i. Sarah Elizabeth/ Nov. 2, 1822, at Camden, d. Oct. 21 '21 • 
ii. John Royal, 7 Nov. 21, 1824, m. Catharine L. Corns, Mar. 3,' 1853 
and had i. Amelia Rebecca? Jan. 27, '54, at Millbrook Farm'- 
in. Sarah Elizabeth, 7 2d, Jan. 26, 1827, at C, m. May 21 '47 Geo 
Gale, r. Millford, 111., had r. Royal Lee, 8 Juno 19, '54 • 
iv. James Marry/ Jan. 30, 1827, m. Mary Jane Corns' May 13 '51 
r. Millbrook Farm, had Mary Esther, Feb. 27, '52 ■ 
v. Henry Rudulph/ Feb. G, 1832, at Mt. Carmel, Oh., d. Au" 3 '32- 
vi. Rachel Blanding/ Dec. 30, 1833, at Hennipen, 111., ,n °Pcter 8 
Lott, Mar. 3, '53, r. New Newark, 111., had Sarah Eliz. 8 May 11 '54 • 
viz. Edward S./ Jly. 20, 1836, on Fox R, r. Millbrook Farm ; 
viii Mary Esther/ Nov. 3, 1839, on Fox R., r. Milford, Ken. Co., 111. 
vi. Sarah Bollard, 6 Apl. 1, 1701, ni. Oct. 7, 1819, Joseph Brcck/ b. Jly. 1, 



44 BULLARD. 

1794, s. of Jona. B. 6 (b. May 12, 1762, d. 1826,) and grd. son of Edward 
B. 5 , (b. Juno 2, 1738, d. June 30, 1767,) and gr. grd. s. of Edwd. B. 4 (b. 
Feb. 24, 1699, d. 1788,) and gr. gr. grd. s. of Edwd. B. 3 (b. 1674, d. Sep, 
5, 1713,) and gr. gr. gr. grd. s. of John B. 2 (b. Feb. 1650, d. Feb. 17, 
,1690,) and gr. gr. gr. gr. grd. s. of Edward B., 1 of Dorchester, 1630, and 
d. Nov. 2, 1662. Mr. Break keeps an extensive agricultural warehouse and 
seed store in N. Market st., Boston, and rs. in Brighton ; had 

i. Charles Henry B. Breck, 7 Aug. 23, 1821, m. Fanny Brown, of Br., 

and has Charles Henry; 

ii. Margaret B.J Feb. 22. '26, m. Wm. Strong, and has Ellen ; 
vii. Mary Adams Bullard, 6 Apl. 21, 1794, m. Oct. 2, 1823, Shubael 
Blanding, M. D., of Columbia, S. C, b. Nov. 15, 1795, son of Shubael 
B., of Koyalston, Mass., and bad only 

i. Elizabeth, 7 Jly. 1, 1824, m. Apl. 23, '46, John Wm. Powell, M. D., b. 
Apl. 25, '23, at Fairfield, S. C, and had i. Mary Frances? Mar. 15, '41 ; 

ii. Wm. Blanding? Jly. 26, '48 ; in. John Henry? Jly. 3, '50 ; iv. 

Lucius Bullard? Nov. 18, '51 ; v. Elizabeth Carpenter? Apl. 17, 

'54, d. Oct. 3, '54. 
vni. Charles Adams Bullard, 6 Esq., A. M., grad. 1819, H. U., read law, 
s. at Camden, S. C, where he m. Mar. 31, '21, Margaret Douglas, fr. 
Scotland, who d. Aug. 1, '21, a. 21. He m. 2. Julia Ann Blood worth, 
Mar. 31, '29, had i. James Leonard 7 ; n. Amie Ann 7 ; in. Mary Eliza 7 ; 
iv. Chs. Amos 7 ; v. Julia Adams 7 . He now resides at Natchitoches, La., 
retired from the Bar, has been a Dis. Judge, and 5 years a member of the 
Legislature, of La. 

103. 133. Eli, A. M., Esq., grad. at Yale Col. 1787 ; settled in Fram. where he 

taught an Academy, practised law, and for 8 yrs. served as Town Clerk. He m. 

Ruth Buckminster, 1794, dg. of Lawson B., by w. Mary , andb. Sep. 17, 

'76. He d. May, 1824. He had i. Chas., 6 Jly. 4, '96, d. urn. at sea. 
n. Nancy, 6 Dec. 20, '99, m. Otis Fairbanks, of Bos., had three children, 
only one of whom survives, 
in. Edward, 6 d. yg. iv. Maria, 6 m. Jones, of Bos., and has children. 

104. 134. Royal, 5 m. Ruth Penniman ; had i. Amey. 6 

105. 135. Samuel, 5 settled at Shrewsbury, and by w. Abigl. Bullard, had 

i. Ama, 6 June 18, 1787, d. June 3, 1848, m. John Morse, had 

i. Caroline, 7 Aug. 3, 1815, m. John P. Muzzy, r. Newark, N. J., has 
Marcus M. ; n. Cyrus, 7 Jly. 8, '10, r. N. J., has Howard 8 and John* 
* and Chas. 8 ; in. Harrison K., 7 Apl. 28, 1826, (see memorial of the 

Morses, p. 84.) 

ii. Dolly, 6 Apl., 1794, m. Joseph Morse, of W. Boylston. 

in. Jason, 6 Jly. 1798, r. Shrewsbury, m. Sarah How ; had 

Geo. H. 7 Aug. 1823 ; Chs. 7 May, '25 ; John, 7 Oct. '27. ; Sarah M. 7 
Nov. '29; Samuel, 7 June, '31; Elizabeth, 7 June, '33; Eli, 7 1835; 
Harriet, 7 Dec, '37. 

iv. Frances, 6 Oct., 1808, m. Chauncey Bond, of Brookfield. 

106. 136. Liberty, 5 s. at New Salem, m. Abigail Learned, dg. of Edward L., of S. 

and Sturbridge, by w. Sarah Pratt, and grd. dg. of Capt. Edward L., of S., 
by wife Sarah (Fuller) Pratt, and gr. grd. dg. of Dea. Benoni L., of S., by 
w. Sarah Fanning, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Isaac L., of Chelmsford, by w. 
Mary Stearns, and gr. gr. gr. grd. dg. of Wm. Learned, of Charlestown, 



BULLARD. 45 

who took the freeman's oath, May 14, 1G34, and who was so highly esteemed 
for his intelligence and virtue, that his fellow citizens 2G (2) 1G38, associated 
him with Mr. Increase Nowell, Mr. John Harvard, and 3 others, to " con- 
sider of some things tending towards ahody of laws." She d. Feb. 29, 1808. 

He m. 2d, Holbrook, from B., and had 

i. Edward, 6 May, 1800; n. James, d. yg. ; in. James ; iv. Wm. G and 
by 2d w. he had ; v. Abigail" ; vi. Gilford ; viii. Aaron 6 ; ix. Betsey 6 ; 
x. Hannah. 6 



107. 137. Amos, 5 settled in Holl., near the ancient homestead in Med., m. Abigail 
Adams, dg. of Obadiah A., of W. Med., by w. Abigail Harding, and gr. dg. 
of Nathan A. by w. Keziah Thomson, and gr. grd. dg. of Obadiah A., of 
Med., by w. Christian Sanford, fr. Mnndon, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of John A. 

of Medfield, by. w. Deborah , and gr. gr. gr. grd. dg. of Edward A., of 

M., the son of Henry, of Braintree, (now Quincy) and who drew in 1659, 
the land on Chicken Brook, which was inherited and occupied by her 
father. Amos B. had 

i. Amos, 6 A. M., Rev., Jly. 13, 1807, d. ab. '50. He grd. at Amherst Col. 
1833 ; studied Theology at the Sem. at Andover ; was sometime Prin. of 
the Academy in Leicester ; and Oct. 26, 1843, was ordained Pastor of the 
Orthodox Congl. chh. in Barre, where he d„ He was an accurate scholar, an 
able theologian, an accomplished writer, a kind friend and devoted minister. 
He m. Mary Ann Durant, fr. Exeter, N. H., Dec. 30, 1839, and had 

i. Elizabeth C., 7 Dec. 12, 1842 ; n. Wm. D., 7 Sep. 29, '44 ; in. Mary 

L., 7 Aug. 17, '46. 
ii. Mary, 6 Nov. 21, 1808, m. Stephen W. Richardson, of Frank, 
in. Silvanus, 6 Nov. 26, '10, m. Mary F. Morse, dg. of Andrew M., of Med.; 

had Fred. F., 7 Nov. 30, '36, d. Sep. 15, '38. 
iv. Cyrus, 6 Apl. 9, 1813, inherits the ancient seat of the family in Med., m. 
Ede Patridge, (see memorial of Morses, Note No. XLVII) and had 

i. Abigail A., 7 Jly. 7, '30 ; n. Rhoda P., 7 Jly. 12, '40 ; m. Fred. F., 7 

Sep. 15, '41, d. Feb. 2, '43 ; iv. Silvanus, 7 Oct. 30, '43 ; v. Amos E., 7 

Oct, 4,'46 ; vi. Joanna E., 7 Sep. 12,'48. 
v. Eliza, 6 Jan. 7, 1816, m. Stephen W. Richardson, of Frank., and had 

i. Mary, 7 Feb. 28, 1836 (d.) ; n. Mary, 7 Aug. 8, '37, d. '39; in. 

John W., 7 Sep. 8, '39 ; iv. Henry B., 7 May 21, '40 ; v. W. S., 7 Apl. 

12, '41. ? 
vi. Frederick, 6 Aug. 25, 1827. 

107 1-2. 138. Abigail, 5 m. Tho. Burbank, of Warren, and had 

i. Geo., 6 1814, m. Charlotte Davis, had Geo. If., 7 Chs. E. and Charlotte. 
n. Chs., G 1816, m. Martha Davis ; had Martha E. 7 and Charlotte. 
in. Wm., 6 1819, m. Elizabeth Davis ; had Nelson C., 7 Wm. A. 7 

iv. Henry, 6 1821, m. , and had Abby Jane 7 Adaline Ann. 7 

v. John, 6 1826. 

109. 139. Isaac, 5 inherited the farm of his father Malachi, 1 1-2 m. N. of Med. 
Village, m. Mary Fisher, pr. dg. of Dea. Samuel F., of Med, and b. 
Sep. 4, 1741. He had 
i. Silas, 6 Jan. 12, 1767, m. Thankful Adams ; s. at Wendafl ; had Anna, 7 

Nov. 30, '93 ; Moses, 7 Jly. 26, '96, at Med. 
ii. Julia, 6 May 2, '68, m. Elijah Clark, of Medfield. 
in. Malachi, 6 Esq., Aug. 13, '70, m. Polly Littlefield, b. Oct. 29, '74, dg. 



46 DULLARD. 

of John L. by w. Tabitba Adams, m. June 27, '54, and grd dg. of Ebenz. 

L., of Holl, by w. Abiah Morse, and gr. gr. grd. dg. Ebenz. L., of Newton, 

by w. Lydia , and gr. gr. grd. dg. of John L. by w. Mary , who, 

late of Wrenthanij Apl. 1675, sold a house lot there to Henry Wight, and 

pr. gr. gr. ,c;r. grd. dg. of John Littlefield, who d. at W. June, 13, 1674. 

Malachi 11, Esq., s. in early life in the N.W. of Med., where he and his lady 

still live, sure of grateful remembrance when they are no more.* They had 
i. Elias, 7 A. M., Esq., of II., who grad. 1823, B. U., read law with 
Elijah Morse, Esq., of Boston, s. in II., where for 20 ys. he has been 
in practice, serving the town in all the offices in her gift. He m. Persis 
Daniels, of S., and had chil. ; 

ir. Malachi, Rev., A. M., who grad. 1841, D. C, studied divinity with 
llev. Dr. Ide of Med., settled as pastor of a Cong'l chh. at Winchen- 
don, where he was much beloved and respected as a man and minister, 
and useful for the time he remained. But his labors were destined to 
be short. He d. with a consumption ab. 1850, greatly lamented by his 
flock and numerous acquaintances, leaving a young wid. and one child ; 
in. Appleton, who rs. in H. ; iv. Hartwell, who pr. rs. in Wcstboro'. 

iv. Rachel, 6 June, 29, 1772, m. Eli Thurston, r. W. boro'. 

v. Mary, G Dec. 17, '74, d. Aug. 22, 1802, unmarried. 

vi. Isaac, 6 Dec. 26, '76, m. Peuah Fisher, and inherited the homestead. 

vii. Achsah, 6 Aug. 21, '78, m. Elihu White, of Franklin. 

ix. Elihu, 6 Jan. 2, '82, d. 1847, leaving a s., Albert; r. Wendall. 

x. Elias, 6 May 15, '85, d. Feb. 8, 1798. 

xi. Nathan, 6 May 19, '87, m. Nancy Russel, dg. of Thos. R.,of Oxford, s. 
1-2 m. N. W. of Med. village, and had 

i. Elizabeth, 7 Dec, 1816, m. Rev. John Garnon, of Limington, N. H. ; 
ii. Sabrina, 7 Mar. 25, '20, m. Rev. Malachi Bullard, (d.) of Winchen- 
don. ; in. Elmira, 7 Sep. 16, 1822, m. Simeon Morse Cutler, of Holl., 
and has Edwd., Wm., Mary. 

xn. Vestee, 6 - Dee. 21, 1789, and d. Nov. 14, 1791. 



123. 140. Eleazer, 6 s. in N. of Holl, m. Jemima Hill, dg. of Timothy Hill, of S. 
and Holl., by w. Mary Bullard, and grd. dg. of Samuel Hill, of Med., by w. 
Mary, and gr. grd. dg. of Samuel H., of Medfield, by w. Rachel Adams 
(m. Mar. 29, 1705), and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Samuel H. (fr. Dorchester to 
M.) by w. Hanh. Twitchell, (m. at Medfield, Nov. 4, 1679.) Eleazer B. 6 m. 
2d, Martha Parker, fr. Fram., b. Apl. 15, 1773, m. Sep. 21, '93, d. Jan. 
23, 182G ; and had 

i. Henry, 7 Mar. 6, 1791 ; m. Eunice Barber, b. June 28, 1791, dg. of Ol- 
iver B. by w. Nancy Bullard, and grd. dg. of Elisha B. by w. Silence, 
and gr. grd. dg. of Zachariali B., of Medfield, by w. Deborah, and gr. 
gr. grd. dg. of Zach. B. by w. Abiel Ellis, (dg. of Tho., of M.), and gr. 
gr. gr. grd. dg. of Geo. B. the Puritan of Dcd. and Medfd., r. Sangerville, 
Me., had 

i. Nelson, 1817, m. Susan M. Plummer, r. S., Me. ; n. Angeline, 
1818, m. David Gilman, r. Levant, Me.; in. Nancy I., '21, m. Henry 
L. Ilawes, r. Franklin ; iv. Eunice, '24, r. Levant, Me. ; v. Timothy 

* Boston, Apl., 1855. Since the preparation of this work, I have learned, with sorrow and re- 
gret, that Malachi B., Esq., and lady, have both deceased, and nearly at the same time. She was 
a most amiable woman, and a model neighbor and mother. He merits an extended obituary, 
having been one of the most upright, useful, pacific, and esteemed citizens of my native town 
during the last 60 years. His memory honors the name. 



BULLARD. 47 

H., '27, m. Lucinda Trundy, r. S., Me. ; vi. Henry, '29 ; vir. Julia 

Ann, '81. 
n. Charles, 7 Jly. 31, 1795, m. Apl. 25, 1827. Catherine Stodder, b. Feb. 
5, 1806, rs. N. Cambridge ; bad 

1. Chs., 8 jun., June, 22, '28, d. Oct 7, '28. 

2. Chs. Henry, Sep. 7, '29, rs. um. a clerk in Bos, 

3. Catherine,' 8 Aug. 28, '32, d. Oct. 26, '32. 

in. Ruth, 7 Aug. 11, 1798, d. Oct. 23, 1845 ; iv. Luke, 7 Apl. 24, '02, d. 

Mar. 4, '03 ; v. Jemima, 7 Sept. 10, '04, m. James M. Cutler, Apl. 25, '26, rs. 

Hoi.; vi. Parker, 7 Dec. 6, '06, d. Jly. 8, '09 ; vn. John,7 Sep. 13, '08, d. 

Sep. 18, '08 ; viii. Josiah, 7 Nov. 8, '09, in. Jan. 1833, Lucy A. Greely, 

b. Sep. 8, '14, rs. Milford ; had 

1. Ghas. Eugene,* June 26, 1834 ; 2. Lucy M* Sep. 15, '35 ; 
3. Susan G., 8 Jly. 26, '38, d. Apl. 5, '40; 4. Josiah P., 8 Mar. 18, 
'40 ; 5. Susan J, 8 Jan. 32, '42 ; 6. Adelbert L., 8 Mar. 9, '44, d. Feb. 
19, '48 ; 7. Ada G 8 Aug. 31, '46 ; 8. Adelbert L. 8 Apl. 4, '49 ; 
9. Florence J/, 8 June 26, '51. 

is. Eleazer, 7 March 26, 1812, m. June 19, '33, Ann Maria Stodder, b. Aug. 

26, '12, rs. Boston ; had 

1. Maria S., 8 Sep. 30, '34 ; 2. Eleazer, 8 jun., Jan. 1, '37 ; 3. Susan 
S. 8 Sep. 7, '42, d. Jly. 30, '47 ; 4. Emma E. 8 Feb. 21, '45, d. Aug. 
17, '48 ; 5. Ruth A.,* Jan. 20, '47 ; 6. Susan E., 8 Mar. 15, 1850. 

x. Martha, 7 Jly. 21, 1814, d. Aug. 15, 1814. 

xi. Joseph, 7 Oct. 4, 1816, m. Clarissa Ann Williams, b. Sep. 1, 1815, 

m. Apl. 25, '39,. d. June 26, '39. He next m., June 14, '40, Sarah Ann 

Partridge, b. Dec. 3, 1818. rs. W. Med. ; had 

1. Geo. W., 8 May 24, '41 ; 2. Clara Ann, 8 Max. 31, '43 ; 3. Joel 
Partridge 8 Oct. 18, '45 ; 4. Joseph Emerson 8 Oct. 20, '48 ; 5. Ed- 
mond* Oct. 27, '50 ; 6. Sarah Ella. 8 Feb. 13, '53. 

120. 141. Samuel, 5 Esq., a distinguished mathematician, surveyor, and draftsman, 
inherited the homestead of his father in Holl., m. Lydia Partridge, of Med., 
dg. of James P. by w. Keziab Bullard, and grd. dg. of John P., Jun., 
of Medf'ld, by w. Elizabeth Ptocket, and pr. gr. grd. dg. of John P., to 
whom land was assigned in M. 1650. He had 

145. 142. i. Aaron, 6 June 7, or 2, 1770, d. May 19, 1846, m. Jerusha Littlefield. 
1451 143. n . Jotham/ ; May 11, 1773, d. Sept. 18, 1848, m. Anna Cutting. 

in. Joseph, May 11, '73, d. yg. 

146. 144. iv. Samuel," b. 1777, m. Persis Bailey; 2d, Esther Force. 



142. 145. Aaron, m. Ap. 4, 1793, Jerusha LittleQeld, dg. of Ephraim L., Esq., of 
II., and s. in Fram., where he had i. Ephraim, 7 Sept. 21, 1792, who died 
the same day; n. Dana, 7 Jan. 4, 1796, m. Dee. 10, 1819, Betsey Good- 
now, who d. Jan. 28, '26, and 2d, Mary Ann Tarlton, fir. New Market, N. 
H, Jan. 18, '29, had 

i. Chs. Henry 8 June 24, '20, m. Elizabeth Potter, of Norwich, Ct., 

and had Ida, 9 Nov. 2, '48 ; and Albert, 1 ' Ap. 4, '50, at N. 

ii. Emily Elizabeth, 8 June 23, '23, m. Joseph F. Tappan, Nov. 25, 

'45, had Frank B., 9 Mar. 16, '46 ; Edward S., 9 July 22, '48; and 

Wilton H., 9 Dec. 22, 50, at Ncwburyport. 

in. Georqe Courtland, 8 m. Caroline Goocb, of Waltham, '50, had 

Ella M., 9 Mar. 18, '51 ; and Emma, 9 Ap. 28, '53, at W. 

iv. Sarah Helen 8 Feb. 21, 1833, d. Nov. '36 ; v. Martha A. 8 Oct. 7, '34. 



48 BULLARD. 

in. George, 7 b. July 30, 1798, rs. in Fram., has been engaged as superin- 
tendent of machine shops, m. May 13, 1833, Mary Cutting Bullard, fr. E. 
Sud., now Wayland, had 

r. Alfred Eodolphus, 8 May 20, '34, educated at Brown U., and now a 

student of medicine at Med. 

ii. Mary Ann,* July 30, '36 ; ni. Cyrus Arthur, 8 Feb. 22, '40. 

iv. Lowell Johnson, 8 Aug. 16, '44 ; v. Emily Maria, 8 Apr. 17, '47. 
iv. Cyrus, b. Ap. 22, 1801, m. Lucy Goodnow, of Fram., May 14, '37. 
v. Lydia Partridge, 7 Dec. 4, 1803, m. Hollis Clayes, Dec. 5, '22, and had 

i. Ann Maria, 8 Mar. 31, '24, m. Joseph Johnson, of Portland, Me., 

and had Helen Maria, 9 Dec. 16, '53 ; n. Frederic Hollis, 8 Dec. 2, '30 ; 

in. Granville Howard 8 Nov. 22, '37. 
vi. Emeline, 7 Nov. 4, 1811, m. Ap. 16, 1831, who d. Oct. 16, '41 ; she 

m. Henry Ware Coolidge ; 2d, John Broad, March 31, '47, r. Holl., 

had Henry Ware Coolidge, 8 Ap. 4, '38. 

143. 145*-. Jotham, m. June 2, 1803, Anna Cutting, of E. Sud., s. there and had 

i. Joseph, 7 March 2G, 1804, in. Harriet Loker, b. March 26, 1804, had 
i. John C., 8 July 12, '34; n. Anna E., 8 Nov. 25, '35; in. Willard 
A., 8 Dec. 14, '37 ; iv. Harriet A., 8 Ap. 17, '39 ; v. Joseph O., 8 May 
20, '41 ; vi. Mary A., 8 Dec. 18, '42 ; vn. Eldora C., 8 Ap. 2, '49. 
ii. Elvira Ann, 7 Ap. 28, 1805, d. March 27, '41. 
in. Mary Cutting, 7 Dec. 18, 1812, m. George Bullard, of Fram. 
iv. Emily, 7 Oct. 29, 1818, m. March 29, '38, Ebenezer Johnson, of Boston, 
had Granville Ebenezer, 8 Nov. 3, '34 ; and Geo. Jotham, 8 Oct. 29, '43. 
v. Joanna, 7 July 13, 1823, m. Ap. 26, '49, Ira Perry, r. E. Weymouth 
and W. Medway, had Maria Elvira, 7 March 31, '50 ; Albert, 8 Ap. 3, '52, 
at W., d. Aug. 3, '52, at W. Med. ; and Helen Emeline, 8 Oct. 14, '53. 
vi. Jotham, 7 also July 13, 1823, d. Nov. 13, '42. 

144. 146. Samuel," inherited the homestead in H, m. Persis Bayley, who d. Aug., 

1815 ; and 2d, Esther H. Force or Ford, from Med., and had 

i. Otis Brigham, 7 Aug. 18, 1815, m. Abigail Cutler, rs. in Holl., a Prof. 

of music, whose services have contributed much to the excellence of the choir 

in the Cong'l chh. in H, but have latterly, in the cooler seasons of the year, 

been rendered at the South. He inherits much of the ancient Bullard farm 

in the N. of H. n. Persis, 7 also Aug. 18, 1815, d. young. 

in. Samuel H., 7 by 2d w., d. 1832, a. H yr. 

iv. Esther Amelia, 7 Sept. 8, 1833, m."jan. 1, '52, George F. Walker, 

A. M., rs. Auburndale. § 



126. 147. Galirn, s. on a part of the ancient Bullin Farm, on the W. side of Brush 
Hill, in S., and by w. Sarah Daniels had i. Sally, 7 Sept. 10, 1795, m. 
Tim. Twitchell, rs. S. ; ii. Richard, 7 Feb. 21, '98, m. Jemima Whitney; 
» in. Hiram, 7 iv. Lavina. 

114. 148. Elijah, 5 r. Holl., had by w. Milcah, 

i. Abijah, June 2, 1775; n. Betsey, March 3, '77. 

56. 149. Haziah, G s. in the N. part of Holl., m. Iveziah Leland, and had i. Alma, 7 
m. Jonas Curtis, of H. ; n. Benj., 7 (d.) ; m. Asa, 7 who in., and had 
Maria 8 Martha S., 8 and Benj. H 8 ; iv. Hannah, 7 b. 1810, d. 1824. 

124. 150. Joel, 5 m. Lucretia Morton, 1795, inherited a part of his grd. father Isaac's 



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place in IT., ami had Joel , Hatfiet, 8 July 11, 1707, Levi, Oct. 23. '99, 
and others. 



19^. 151. Jona.,' was early admitted to full communion in the chh. in S., fr. 
whence he removed to Worcester, 1748, taking a letter of dismission and 
recommendation to the chh. there. He afterwards transferred his relation to 
the chh. in Holden. From II. he removed to Barre, where he d. in bis 78th 
year. The piety that appeared among his children, indicates that he ordered 

his household aright, and endears his memory. He m. Sarah , who d. 

at Sherborn, Ap. 3, 173'.), and a 2d wife, and had at S., 
154. 152. i. Jona., 5 Oct. 21, 1734, d. Sept. 30, 1324, a. 90, at Hancock, N. H., 
II. Sarah, 5 Mar. 14, 1738-9, at Sherborn. 
ill. Samuel, 5 pr. at Worces., (by 2d wife) m. Sarah Barbour, fr. "Worcest., 

was a raemb. of the Congl. Chh., in Barre, and rm. to Hancock, had 

Lemuel? Nov. 9, 17G6 ; Abigail* Aug. 2:5, '68 ; Susey? Sep. 1, '70 ; 

Joel!' Nov. 26, '72 ; Samuel, 8 Nov. 10, '75 ; Daniel;- May 15, '78 ; 

Lois? June 12, '80 ; Abel? Jun;. 18, '82, all at Barre. 
iv. John, 5 of Barre, m. Joanna ■, had i. Rachel, June 12, '67 ; 

ii. Trypbena, Jly. 14, '68. Jona. 4 had pr. other sons, 5 b. at Worcester 

or Holden. 



152. 154. Jona., 5 was 40 years a member and pillar in the Congl. Chh. in Barre, 
rm., to Hancock, N. II., where he became a Baptist, and in his extreme old 
age was wont to walk 8 ms. to Baptist meetings — would never ride 
anywhere in a wagon. "He was a very ambitious and persevering man." 
He m. Polly Barbour, who d. Dec. 80, 1824 a. 86. They had 
i. Sarah, Nov. 26, 17G3, m. Ezekiel Shattuck, r. Barre, on her father's 
homestead, and took care of him until he rm. to Hancock, N. 11. ; 
n. Asa, Jly. 8, 17G6, m. and settled in Chautaucme Co., N. Y. 

160. 156. in. Isaac, Jan. 11, 1768, d. Jan. 17, 1835, having been m. three times. 
iv. Gardiner, June 4, 1772, m. Mehetabel Miriam, s. at Saratoga Springs, 
became a pillar in the Baptist Chh., and d., leaving a good estate, and three 
children, the worse for their inheritance. 

168. 158. v. John, Aug. 20, 1776, m. Lucy Buxton, r. Shrewsbury, Vt. 
vi. Nathan, Oct. 5, 1779, settled at Ticonderoga, N. Y. 
vii, Polly, m. 2 bus., both sons of Poet. Dickenson, and rs. Cambridge, Vt. 
vnr. Ephraim ; ix. Samuel ; and no farther reported. 



15i;. 160. Isaac, settled in Hancock, N. H., and took care of hi* aged parents, 
m. Betsey Jackson, who was brought up by his parents, and d. 1813 ; and 
2d, Sally Davis, of Nelson, N. H, who d. 1819; and 3d, Mrs. Temperance 
D. Ballard, Feb. 3, 1820, still living in Morristown, N. J., and had 
t. Samuel 7 ; n. Arathusa 7 ; ill. Mary 7 ; iv. Eliza 7 ; v. "Warner B. 7 ; VT. 
Gardner 7 ; vn. Curtis 7 ; vm. Wm. B 7 ; IX. Abby A. 7 ; most of whom 
have d. with consumption, professors of the religion of their ancestors. 

7Sf,. 166. Eli, rs. in S. Bridge, as a machinist, m. Brown, fr. Dud., by whom 

he had two dgs., m., and now living ; and 2d, Betsey Ellis, ab. 1824, dg. of 
Simeon E , of Med., by whom he had in. Geo. E., b. Jly. 31. 1826, who 
read med. with L. W. Curtis, M. D., of S., grad. at Albany Med. Col., 
1853, is now in successful practice at Millville ; IV. Eliza Ann, m. Geo. 
P. Chajin, r. S. ; v. Maria C. ; VI. Willard P., r. Ware ; VII. Betsey 
Anna. 

7 



50 BULLABD. 

158. 1G8. John, rs. at Shrewsbury, Vt, m. Feb. 28, 1797, Lucy Buxton, b. Nov. 
13, 1775, at Barre, and d. Aug. 13, 1831 ; 2d, Melinda Mann, and had 
I. Polly, Nov. 20, ,, J7, (1. Ap. 30, 1849, m. Sewall Hemingway. 
ii. Daniel B., Jly. 2, '99, d. Ap. 15, 1802 ; in. John, Sept. 3, 1800, d. 
1854, r. Rockford, 111., m. Laura Eastman, hadC^eo., Caroline, Marcia, Har- 
riet J/., Emetine and Laura ; iv. Lucy, Feb. 22, 1802, m. Amasa Per- 
kins, rs. Clarendon, Vt. ; v. Daniel, Ap. 19, 1803, d. Nov. 4, 1845, r. 
Shrew., m. Nancy Gates, and had Marcellus, Allen, Eliza, Emetine, Spencer, 
and Harrison ; vi. Gardner, Sep. 27, 1805, r. Hindsdale, N. Y., m. Diana 
Kinsman ; vn. Joseph A., Kev., May 31, '07, educ. at Haml. Univer., N. 
Y., r. Penfield, N. Y., m. Cynthia Maynard, has Edwin, Josephine, and 
James; vin. Julia Ann, June 22, '09, r. Chittendon, Vt., m. Willard Os- 
good ; ix. Etncline, Sep. 10, 1811, r. Fairhaven, Vt., m. Bcnj. F. Gilbert; 
x. Edwin Buxton, Sept. 12, '13, d. Ap. 5, '47, at Maulmain, Burmah, 
in. Ellen Huntley, grad. at Haml. University, and at Thco. Sem., Newton, 
bad Ellen and Edioin ; xi. Amos B., Ap. 11, '15, m. Ann Eliza 
Meburin, rs. Shrew., had Mary Eliza and Merrctt Almon ; xn. Geo. 
Whitfield, May 9, '17, m. Mary Ann Crossman, rs. Shrew., had Geo. A., 
Oct. 17, 1842; John C, Ap. 27, '46; Lovisa E., Ap. 26, '50; and 
Franklin G., Jly. 25, '52. 



C HAPTER II. 



2. OcotQC JJulIatb, of Watertown, took the freeman's oath 1641, d. Jan. 14, 
1688-9. He lived in the W. part of W., now Weston, and had by wife 
Beatrice, i. Mary, 2 Feb. 12, 1639-40 ; n. Jacob, 2 Ap. 6, '42, was a soldier 
in Philip's war; in. Sarah, 2 m. John Ball. 

4. 3. iv. Jona., 2 Jly. 12, '47 ; v. Johanna, 2 m. ? Dennis Hedley, Mar. 22, '80-1. 

3. 4. Jona., 2 d. 1721, and administration was granted his s. Benj., Oct. 2, 
1724, m. Dec. 22, 1669, Hester Morse, dau. of Joseph M., of Water- 
town, and grd. dau. of Joseph, of Ipswich ; and 2d wid., Elizth. Barns, fr. 
Marlb., Mar. 23, 1721-2, and had at W., 
i. Hester, 3 Aug. 13, 1671, d. um, Jly. 1, 1713-14. 

8. 5. ii. Jona., 3 Dec. 25, 1672, d. Sept. 14, 1719, m. Anna ; 

in. Hannah, 3 Feb. 3, 1674-5 ; iv. Joseph, 3 the proprietor of mills in Wes., 

d. 1722. His estate apprd. at £752 (M. Prob.) He m. Elizabeth Upham, 

had Esther* 1714, d. yg., and Abigail* b. 1720, m. Abahm. Bigelow, '35-6. 

36. 7. v. Benj., 3 d. Nov. 18, 1740, m. Elizabeth Shepherd. 

39. *l\. vi. Nathaniel, 3 who was bondsman for the guardian of his niece, Abigail, 

1719; vn. Anna 3 ; vnr. Elizabeth 3 ; xi. Mary 3 ; x. Moses, 3 ; xi. 

Elena 3 ; xn. Ruth 3 . 

5. 8. Jona., 3 s. in W., now Weston, d., and administration on his estate was 

granted his wid, Anna, Dec. 18, 1719, who. m. 2d, Edwd. Harrington, '31. 
i. Anna, 4 Oct. 24, 1700, d. Feb. 18, 1701-2. 
12. 9. ii. Jona., 4 Jan. 24, 1701-2, m. Ruth Harrington. 

in. Samuel, 4 Mar. 11, 1704, m. Deborah , who d. a wid., and Samuel, 5 

of Billerica, May G, 1756, became her admr. 

iv. Moses, 4 May 27, 1706, had Francis Pierce for his guardian, Feb. 4, 



BULLABD: 5 1 

'22-3, m. Elizabeth Livcrmorc. 1730, and administration on his estate was 
granted his Br. Jona., Oct. 25, '31 ; v. Thankful, 1 May 14, 1708, d. yg. 
10. vi. NathanT; vn. Abigail, 4 Jly. 28, 1711 ; 

viii. Anna, 4 bap. Dec. 6, 1713 ; ix. Thankful, 4 Dec. 2, 1715, m. Jona. 
Church, Aug., 21, '34. 
60. 11. x. Ebenezer, 4 Oct. 14, 1719, d. May 11, 1768, at Ncwlps., N. II. He had 
his honored [step] father, Edw. Harrington, for bis guardian, Ap. 30, 173:1. 
[Mid. Prob.] 

0. 12. Jona., 4 of Weston, m. Ruth Harrington, 1725-6, and had 
14. 13. i. Jona. 5 Mar. 29, 1727, m. Anna Harrington, 174") ; ir. Ruth, 5 Sep. 12, 
'32, ra. Isaac Wbittemore, May 29, '50; in. Sibil,' 5 May 12. '37, m. Reuben 
Shed, Feb. 12, '71 ; iv. Abigail, 5 Apl. 5, '39, d. Mar. 1<>, '01 ; v. SairTI, 
Mar. 18, 1741, d. Jly. 10, '50; vi. Moses, 5 Dec. 13, '42, d. Jly. 10, '50 ; 
vn. Phineas, 5 Jly. 20, '45, d. Jly. 13, '50. 
viii. Isaiah, 5 Jly. 8, '50, m. Mary Pierce, Aug. 15, '71. 

13. 14. Jona.,' settled at Rutland (District) Worces. Co., and by w. Anna Har- 
rington, had i. Silas, 6 May 24, 1746, at Weston ; n. Isaac,' 1 Ap. 2, '49. 

23. 17. in. Jona., (; born at Rutland, d. Dec, 1854, aged 98 or 99, at Turner, Me. 

iv. Samuel, added from the memory of Jona." above, just before his death, 
and not deemed perfectly reliable. 

v. Phineas 6 ; vi. Moses 6 ; vn. Valentine 6 ; viii. Ebenezer 6 ; ix. Sibil 6 ; 
x. Hannah 6 ; xi. Anna 6 ; xn. Dolly ; xm. Ruth 1 '. 

17. 23. Jona., 6 m. Ruth Whittemore, from Spencer, who d. June 15, 1833, at 

Turner, Me. He r. in Oakham, and T. and had 
29. 24. i. Jona., 7 Sep. 18, 1800, in O., r. Forecraft, Me. 

ii. Isaac/ b. at Weston, d. in Oakham ; in. Hypsy, 7 in. ■ Chatborn, r. 

Stockbridge, Vt. ; iv. Ruth, 7 d. yg. ; v. Asa, 7 d. yg. ; vi. Ebenezer, 7 d. yg. 

vn. Ruth, 7 m. James Percy, of Paris, Me., and d. 1836; viii. Nathan., 7 

d. in Buckfield, Me., 1828; ix. Joseph, 7 d. in do., 1821; x. Marshall, 7 

d. in do. '21 ; xi. Lucy, 7 b. in Stockbridge, Vt., m. Amos Morse; 

xn. Sally, 7 b. in Hebron, Me., d. Sep., 1821, at Buckfield, Me. 

24. 29. Jona,, 7 m. Nancy Bradford, b. at Turner, Me., Ap. 7, 1806, and had 

i. Nathan, 8 Ap. 22, 1825, at Buckfield, d. June 11, 1850 ; n. Cordelia, 8 Feb. 
17, '27, at Turner; in. Wm. B., 8 Ap. 12, '29, at T., rs. Forecraft, Me. 
iv. Alanson B., 8 Nov. 19, '31, r. California; v. Lucius M., s Feb. 12, '34, 
r. F. ; vi. Aroline E., 8 Ap. 3, '36, r. Taunton, Mass. ; vn. Ann M., s Aug. 
21, '38, r. F. ; viii. Sewell F., 8 Ap. 29, '42, at T. ; ix. Sarah M., 8 Jly. 
31, '44, at F. ; x. Chs. C. 8 Dec. 29, '46; xi. and xn. Mary Emma, 8 and 
Martha Ella, 8 Jly. 12, '50. 

7. 36. Benj., 3 of Weston, w. Elizabeth. His will proved Mar. 9, 1740-1 gave 
all his real estate, appraised at £555, 14s. Od. to hiswid., E., ands., Isaac, a 
minor, binding him, when of age, to pay annually to the wid. £10, and to 
pay Abner, a younger son, when out of his minority, £300 ; and to the eldest 
dau. Mary, £100, and to Anna, the youngest, £100. He m. Aug. 20, 1728, 
Kliztb. Shepherd, who by letter from the Chh., in Norton, was reed, by the 
Chh. in Weston, June 7, 1730. She m. for lid husb., Ap. 14, 1742, Aaron 
Rice, of Rutland. 

65'. 37. i. Isaac, 4 May 11, 1729 ; n. Abner, 4 Oct. 27, 1740, d. Jan. 17 !<>-! ; 
in. Mary, 4 Ap. 9, 1731 ; iv. Anna, 1 Aug. 6, 1736. 



52 DULLARD, 

7',. 39. Nathaniel," Ens., d. at Nccdham, June 17, 1754. His w. Dorothy d. 
June 8, '50, had at N. 

i. Nathaniel, 1 May G, 1718, m. Abigail McWithee, Oct. 3, '46, and had 
Joseph, to whom Abigail Bullard, of Fram., pr. mother, is appointed 
guardian, Aug. 11, '67, he, having been without guardian or estate, was 
bound to Jos. Lock, of Leicester, by the selectmen of L. 

43. 41. ii. Ephm., 4 Aug. 22, '21 ; in. Dorothy, 1 Sep. 3, '23. 

49. 42. iv. Moses, 4 Mar. 9, '33-4, ra. Sarah Newell, May 4, '58, 5. Lucretia. 



51 



41. 43. Ephm., 4 ra. Eeulah , and had at Needham, 

i. Collins, 5 b. Feb. 11, '45-6. 

45. n. Ephm., 5 Jly. 29, '47, m. Beulah Good now ; in. Beulah, 5 Dec. 17, '48, 
d. Dec. 8, '50 ; iv. Joseph, 5 Nov. 15, '50, d. Dec. 17, '54 ; v. Beulah, 5 
Nov. 13, '52, d. Sep. 15, '54; vi. John, 5 Mar. 30, '55; vn. Rebecca, 5 
Feb. 15, '57; vm. Timothy, 5 Aug. 24, '59. 

48. ix. Joseph, 5 Feb. 5, '61, m. Elizth. ■ , had Joseph, Feb. 9, '85. 

x. Hannah, 5 Nov. 28, '65. 

42. 49. Moses, 4 ra. Sarah Newell, May 4, '58, had at N. 

50. i. Nathaniel, 5 Mar. 11, 1759, m. Sarah Sanders ; if. Sally, 5 Sep. 6, '61, m. 
Samuel Bracket, Oct. 7, '79. 

45. 51. Ephraim, 5 w. Beulah Goodnow, m. Nov. 21, 1771, had i. Becca, 6 Mar. 11, 
'72 ; ii. Polly, Oct. 3, '77 ; in. Timothy/ Mar. 16, '80, 

50. 53. Nathaniel, 5 w. Sarah Sanders, m. June 21, '81, r. Needh., and long served 

as Dep. Sheriff of Norf. Co., had i. Betsey, Sep. 15, 1782, m. Abbot, 

rs. Andover; n. Sarah, 6 Nov. 3, '84, m. Robt Gilman, r. N. Y 

in. Clarissa, Feb. 8, '87, m. Thad. Allen, Editor and Teacher, rs. Bos. 

57. 54. iv. Nathaniel, May 1, '90; v. Moses Clark, 6 Jly. 24, '95, s. and d. at 
the South, had Nathaniel Needham, 7 Aug., 24, '92; vi. Daniel Sanders, 6 
A. M., rs. Andover. 

54. 57. Nathl., 6 succeeded his father in the office of Dep. Sheriff, s. in N., m. Maria 
Mills, had i. Nathl., 7 m. Buth Richardson, rs. Bos. 

ii. Chs., 7 d. yg. ; in. Moses H., 7 m. Ursula M. Hope, rs. Natick, has 
Fred. H., 8 Helen M., 8 Fran. C., 8 Eva A. J., 8 Florence M. 8 ; 
in. Clarissa M., 7 m. John L. Jewell, rs. Marlb. 

11. 60. Ebenezer, 4 w. , settled at New Ipswich, where be had i. Asa, 5 b. Dec. 7, 

1743, d. Sep. 12, '65 ; n. Simeon, 5 b. Aug. 19, '45 ; in. Keziah, 5 b. Ap. 
22, '47 ; iv. John, 5 b. June 10, '49 ; v. Ephraim, 5 b. Ap. 13, '51, d. Dec. 
1, '52 ; vi. Mary, 5 b. Sep. 12, '53; vn. Ebenezer, 5 b. Ap. 1, '56 ; 
vm. Sarah, 5 b. May 28, '58 ; ix. Susannah, 5 b. Feb. 13, '61, d. Mar. 18, 
'65; x. Asa, 5 b. Ap. 18, '65. 

37. 65. Isaac, 4 settled at Barre, m. Lucy , and had i. Bcnj., 5 Sep. 4, 1753, d. 

Aug. 24, '5G ; ii. Lucy, June 10, '55; in. Mary, Dec. 4, '56 ; 

iv. Isaac, 5 Jan. 15, '60, ra. Martha , and had Justus, 6 Jan. 27, 1784. 

v. Lemuel, 5 Mar. 5, '62. 



BDLLARD. 53 



CHAPTER III 



i. 3o\)tl Sttllarb was undoubtedly the brother of Benjamin 1 and Win., 1 and is 
presumed to have first settled with them at Watertown, where he became a 
member of the chh., and from which he with others was dismissed and 
received to the chh. in Dedham, 30 (5) 1641, " Mr. Phillips, pastor, and 
Messrs. Carter and How, elders, testifying in their favour." He was one of 
the original proprietors of Dedh., had land assigned him adjoining to his 
brother William's, and probably removed to D. as early as 1637. He was 
rated at D. as one of her more able citizens in 1647, and private accounts 
were early entered against him abroad as one of " the two Bullards at D." 
In 1650 he became one of the select proprietors of the new town of Med- 
field, enjoying with them in such a degree the confidence of the Genera 
Court, that, in the act of incorporation, they were not bound, as in all 
similar cases, within a specified time to build a meeting-house, settle a minis- 
ter, and establish a school ; their character being a pledge that these things 
would be attended to in due season. He immediately removed to M., where 
he shared largely in the division of her public lands, and enjoyed the respect 
and confidence of her citizens. In all these removals he accompanied Samuel 
Morse and sons," with whom and the Bullards a near relationship is presumed 
to have existed. On removing to M. he pr. left his place in D. to his son John, 

and pr. son Isaac. He m. Magdalene , who d. 29 (1) 1661, and 2d 

Ellen Dickerman, wid. of Tho. D. of Dorchester, and with her at M. sold 
land at Dorch., 29 (4) 1665. He had 

4. i. Isaac, 2 ? probably, who m. 3 (11) 1654, Sarah Jones of Dorchester, 
and is no further reported ; 

ii. Magdalene, 2 who m. John Partridge, 18 (10) 1655, r. Medfd. ; 

5. in. John, 2 ? pr., who remained at Ded., where a J. had HannaW 1664, 
and d. 1668. A J. had a son Benj. d. at D. 1713 ; 

iv. Abigail, 8 (8) 1641, and no further reported ; 
7. 6. v. Joseph, 2 26 (2) 1643, m. Sarah , inherited his father's place in M. 

6. 7 Joseph, 2 w. Sarah , had at Medfield, 

i. Joseph, 3 Sept. 12, 1665, d. yg. ; n. Sarah, 3 Nov. 11, 1667 ; 
11. 8. in. Joseph, 3 Mar. 28, 1670, m. Margaret; iv. Samuel, 3 Sept. 15, 1672; 

v. Rachel, 3 Nov. 15, 1674, m. Sep. 28, 1701, Benoni Morse, of Medfd., and 

had Abial, 4 Jan. 28, 1703-4, maternal gr. grd. mother of the author; 

vi. Solomon, 3 Jly. 13, 1679, d. '79 ; 
13. 10. vii. Ebenezer, 3 d. 1765, m. Susanna , d. 1763 ; vm. Hannah. 3 



8. 11. Joseph, 3 w. Margaret , 2d, w. Abigail ; had. at Medfd., i. Su- 
sanna, 4 1694 ; ii. Joanna, 4 1696, d. yg. ; in. Jemima, 4 Jly. 14, 1698; 
iv. Margaret, 4 Aug. 25, 1700; 

32. 12. v. Solomon, 4 Aug. 22, 1702, d. Oct. 23, '68, m. Jemima Bullard; 

vi. John, 4 May 16, 1705; vn. Trvall, 4 Aug. 4, 1709, d. yg. by wf. 
Margaret; vm. Submit, 4 Apl. 2, 1711, by w. Abigail. 

10. 13. Ebenezer, 3 w. Susanna ; had at Medfd, 

19. 14. i. Joshua, 4 Nov. 25, 1716, d. 1792, m. pr. three wives ; 

ii. Asa, 4 d. 1765 ; in. Sarah, 4 b. and d. 1721 ; iv. Susanna, 4 Oct. 28, 1722; 

33. 16. v. Joseph, 4 Jan. 16, 1719, s. ab. 1741 at New Ipswich, d. Mar. 3, '92, at 

Mason, N. H., a. " 73 yrs."; 

vi. Nathan, 4 Dec. 3, 1724 ; vn. Sarah, 4 Mar. 12, 1728 ; 



54 BULLARD. 

28. 18. viii. Hezekiah, 4 June 27, '30 ; Keziah, 4 b. and d. '30 ; Rachel, 4 '32. 



14. 19. Joshua, 4 m. Judith , who d. Jan. 20, 1743-4, 2d, Olive , 

who d. Mar. 17, 1746-7 ; and 3d, Ann , who d. Nov. 15, 1811, a. 

87 ; i. Job 5 Dec. 26, 1743, d. yg. ; n. Rhoda, 5 Oct. 22, '45, d. yg. ; 

20. in. Silas, 6 Mar. 3, '47; m. Sarah ,had Ichbaod, Sep. 16, 1780, at 

Medfield ; iv. Judith, Sep. 7, '49 ; 

24. 21. v. Nathan, 6 June 15, '54, by 2d w. ; vi. Ann, 5 Feb. 23, '56 ; vn. John, 

Sep. 30, '58. in. ? Thankful , who d. Jan. 21, '84, and had at Medfd., 

Elijah? Feb. 25, 1780 ; Olive, 6 June 3, '82 ; ThanJcful, 6 Jan. 11, '84 ; 
viii. Olive, 5 Sep. 13, '61, d. '79 ; ix. Abijah, 5 Mar. 16, '64 ; x. Keziah, 5 
Oct. 25, '66 ; xi. Abigail, 5 , d. 1787 ; xn. Zilla, 5 Feb. 5, '70. 

21. 24. Nathan, 6 s. 1-2 m. S. of Winthrop's Lake in Med., where Dcot. Aaron 
Wight afterwards lived ; sold, and rm. to Shrewsbury ; m. Ede Partridge, 
1750, who was b. Dec. 4, 1727, dg. of Jona. P., of Med. andBarre, by w. 
Elizabeth Learned, fr. Frara., and grd. dau. of John P., jun , of Medfd. by 
w. Elizabeth Rocket, dau. of Nicholas R., by w. Margaret Holbrook, and 
grd. dau. of Richard " Rockwood," of Braintree. Nathan had in Med., 
i. Elizabeth, 6 Nov. 3, 1750, m. 1769, James Morse, of Fitzwilliam, and was 
the mother of the Hon. Nathan Morse, of Northfield, Vt. ; n. Ede, 6 Mar. 
18, 1752, m. David Johnson, jun., of Holl., and Chester, Vt., Nov. 3, '72, 
and 2d, Amos Richardson, of Med. ; in. Rhoda, 6 June 16, '54, m. Zedekiah 
Johnson, of Holl. ; iv. Joel, 6 Feb. 23, '56 ; v. Chloe, 6 Nov. 19, '58, m. 
Rev. Mr. McCauly, of Rockingham, Vt. : vi. Nathan, 6 Sep. 17, '61 ; vn 
Reuben, 6 who reed, three wounds in the battle of Bunker Hill, one ball 
passing through the stomach. He d. 14 yrs. after with bilious colic. 

18. 28. Hezekiah, 4 m. Sarah ; 2d, Susanna Wheaton, had i. Elizabeth, 6 

1754, at Wrentham ; II. Keziah, 5 Jan. 2, 1756; in. Joshua, 5 Apl. 14, 
1758 ; iv. Hezekiah, 5 Nov. 11, 1770, by 2d w. ; v. Benj. 5 June 16, '72; 
vi. Joseph, 5 Mar. 27, '74. 

12. 32. Solomon, 4 cordwainer, s. in the N. E. part of Walpole, m. Jemima Bul- 
lard, a relative of 4th deg., and had 

I. Solomon, 5 Feb. 11, 1733-4, d. abroad um. 
101. 321 n . Seth, 5 Jan. 6, 1736-7, d. Aug. 1, 1811, m. Joanna Lewis. 
114. 32|. in. Wm., 5 m. Hanh. Sumner ; iv. a dg. who d. um. 

16. 33. Joseph, 4 s. at New Ipswich, N. H, but he removed to Mason, where a 
neat headstone marks his grave. He. m. Mar. 22, 1754, Sarah Proctor, of 
Westford, Mass., who was born Feb. 25, 1729, and d. Nov. 5, 1820. 
They had 

38. 34. i. Silas, 5 Apl. 2, 1755, d. May 15, 1835 ; m. Avis Keyes. 

35. ii. Peter, 6 Apl. 23, 1760, r. Wyoming. Pa., and rm. to Marietta, Oh. ; 

36. in. Eleazcr, 5 rm. to Cincinnati, Oh. ; iv. Isaac, 5 b. June 29, 1757, d. '60. 

34. 38. Silas, 5 s. at Mason, N. H, m. Avis Keyes, fr. Ashford, Ct., who was b. 

Dec. 30, 1763, m. Jly. 1, '82, and d. Mar. 23, 1836, and had at M., 
51. 39. i Joseph, 6 Apl. 2, 1783, d. June 9, 1843 ; m. Lucy (Felt) Cragin ; 
57. 40. n. Sampson, 6 Oct. 24, 1784 ; m. Ivah Patterson ; 
61. 41. in. Silas, 6 Sept. 5, 1786, d. Feb. 5, 1835, m. Mary Ann Barrett; 

iv. Amasa, 6 July 22. 1788, d. Aug. 25, 1808, at Copenhagen, Den. 
66. 43. v. Isaac, 6 Nov 1, 1790 ; m. Nancy Fay ; 



BULLARD. 55 

71. 44. vi. Sally, 6 Feb. 21, 1793; vn. Eleazer, 6 Nov. 9, '94, d. July, 1825; 

vin. Jesse, 6 Nov. 3, 1796, d. July 21, '97; ix. John, 6 May 20, '98, d. 

May 20, '98 ; 
79. 46. x. Caleb Emerson, 6 Aug. 29, 1799 ; ix. Charles Keyes, 6 Feb. 22, 1801 ; 
83. 48. xn. Clarissa Page, 6 May 26, 1804, m. Charles Granger ; 
90. 49. xm. Abigail Brooks, 6 Dec 20, 1804, m. Elias Taylor. 

xiv. George, 6 Oct. 26, 1806, d. May 5, 1807 ; 
98. 50. xv. Harriet Keyes, 6 Dec. 22, 1808, m. John M. Maynard. 

39. 51. Joseph, 6 r. Eindge, N. H., m. Oct. 23, 1809, Lucy (Felt) Cragin, of 
Temple, N. H., b. Nov. 26, 1780, and had 

i. Lucy, 7 July 20, 1810; n. Amasa, 7 May 2, 1812; in. Elvira, 7 Sept. 19, 
1815 ; iv. Silas, 7 Aug. 29, 1817 ; v. Stephen Felt, 7 June 8, 1823. 

40 57. Sampson, 6 r. Boston, Concord, and Littleton, N. H., m. Nov. 8, 1818, 
Ivah Patterson, b. June 5, 1798, d. Jly. 16, 1854, at Littleton, N. H., 
dg. of Enoch P., of Bos., by w. Mary Adams, who was b. June, 1780, at 
Newton. They had 

I. Enoch Patterson, 7 Sept. 16, 1819, at Boston, where he rs. um., a banker, 
and has liberally contributed to the issuing of this work ; II. Caroline Ivah, 7 
Apl. 9, 1821, at Concord, N. H., m. at Littleton, Aug. 12, '47, Wm. J. 

Bellows, b. Jly 3, 1817, andrs. atL., and has Mary Adams, 8 b. Jly. 12, 

'49 ; Wm. Henry 8 b. Aug. 5, '52 ; 
in. George Henry, 7 Sept. 6, 1823, d. May 17, 1840, at Concord. 

41. 61. Silas, 6 r. Boston, m. May 2, 1820, Mary Ann Barrett, of New Ipswich, 
who was b. Nov. 12, 1802. They had 

i. Mary, 7 at Boston, Nov. 6, 1821 ; n. Charles Barrett, 7 Nov. 22, 1823, at 
New Ipswich, N. H. ; in. Martha Ann, 7 Dec. 26, 1825, at Bos. ; iv. Sarah 
Jane, 7 Sept. 11. 1818, at B. 

43. 66. Isaac, 6 r. Mason, N. H, m. Sept. 10, 1816, Nancy Fay, whod. Feb. 24, 
1827. They had, i. Charles Augustus, 7 Jany. 9, 1818, d. Nov. 4, 1850 ; 
ii. Mary Ann, 7 March 26, 1820 ; Hi. George C., 7 Sept. 25, 1822, d. Dec. 
24, 1826; iv. George F., 7 Jany. 7, 1827. 



44. 71. Sally, 6 m. Feb. 27, 1812, John Felt, who was born at Temple, N. H., 
Apl. 20, 1789, r. Wilton, had, I. Diana Keyes, 7 at W., May 26, 1813 ; 
ii. John, 7 March 18, 18l5 ; in. Louisa, 7 at Rindge, N. H., Dec. 20, 1817 ; 
iv. George Bullard, 7 Nov. 3, 1819 ; v. Mary Ames, 7 at New Ipswich, Dec. 
1, 1821 ; vi. Emily Mandiville, 6 Apl. 24, 1823 ; vn. Sarah Maria, 7 at 
Mason, Dec. 13, 1825. 

46. 79. Caleb Emerson, 6 r. Mason, N. H., m. June 2, 1821, Sophronia Kimball, 
of Nelson, N. H., who was b. Aug. 10, 1801. He had, i. Benjamin 
Franklin, 7 at Mason, Jany. 22, 1826, d. Aug. 18, 1829; n. Abigail 
Amarilla, 7 Oct. 19, 1828 ; in. Franklin Kimball, 7 Jany. 20, 1834 ; 
iv. Louisa Simmons, 7 June 27, 1837, d. May 5, 1842 ; v. Mary Caroline, 7 
Jany. 3, 1841. 

48. 83. Clarissa Page, m. Feb. 5, 1819, Chas. Granger, b. at Suffield, Conn., 
June 8, 1799, r. Mason, had, i. Catharine A., 7 May 13, 1821 ; n. Charles 



56 BULLARD. 

H., 7 March 31, 1823 ; in. James W., 7 Sept. 31, 1825 ; iv. Mary Ann/ 
Feby. 10, 1829; v. Martha M., 7 Oct. 3, 1833; vi. Caroline E., 7 Sept. 7, 
1840. 



49. 90. Abigail Brooks, 6 m. Elias Taylor, of Jeffrey, N. H., b. at J., Dec. 7, 
1797, r. J., had, i. Mary Ann, 7 at Jeffrey, Dec. 23, 1831 ; n. Ellen M., 7 
July 22, 1834; in. Anna A. 7 and iv. Abba J., 7 twins, June 26, 1836; 
v. George H. B., 7 March 21, 1842; vi. Frances, 7 May 3, 1845; 
vn. Emma Isabel, 7 April 25, 1847. 

50. 98. Harriet Keyes, 6 m. Nov. 2, 1828, John M. Maynard, b. in Jeff., May 12, 

1801, had, i. Edward, 7 Nov. 22, 1829; n. Julia A., 7 June 21, 1832; 
in. Ellen A., 7 Feb. 2, 1834 ; iv. George P., 7 April 29, 1838 ; v. Harriet 
A., 7 March 28, 1846. 

32£. 101. Seth, 5 Hon., was a gent, of sound judgment and sterling integrity. He 
early entered the army of the Revolution, rose to the rank of Maj., and was 
esteemed a valuable officer. He was subsequently much engaged in transact- 
ing the public business of Walpole ; and represented her 20 years ; and 
Norfolk county 8 ys. in the G. C. He m. Joanna Lewis, b. Dec. 4, 1740, 
or '43, d. Mar. 5, 1816, and had, i. Elizabeth, 6 Oct. 28, 1762, m. Ebenr. 
Clapp of W., and rs. at Medfd., a. 93; n. Mary, 6 Oct. 30, 1764, d. Dec, 
1815, m. Joseph Holmes, r. Attleb. ; in. Catherine, 6 Jan. 22, '67, d. May 
6, '76; iv. Olive, 6 Mar. 21 or 28, '69, d. Apl. 9, 1834, without issue, m. 
Chs. Guild of Boston ; 

104. 102. v. Joel, 6 Jly. 21, '71, d. May 20, 1807, m. Charlotte Billings from 
Sharon ; 

107. 103. vi. Jabez, 6 Nov. 2, '73, d. Dec. 7, 1852, m. Mary Hartshorn ; 2d, 
Dorothy Hancock Quincy, dg. of Henry Q. of Bos., wid. of Chs. Clement; 
vn. Jemima, 6 Feb. 9, '76, m. Joseph Willet of Bos. ; vin. Solomon, 6 Jly. 
17, '78, d. Dec. 18,79 ; ix. Catherine, 6 Dec. 2l, '80, d. Dec. 23 or 28, 
1850, m. Henry Partridge of Bos. 

102. 104. Joel, 6 w. Charlotte Billings, m. Mar. 10, 1795, d. Oct. 21, 1812, r. W. 
I. Charlotte Guild 7 ; n, Charles, 7 who m. Elizabeth Paul, from Stough. rs. 
Bos.; had, i. Ann Elizabeth* ; n. Chs. Otis 8 ; in. Mary 8 ; iv. Hannah 
Billings 8 ; v. Geo.' Henry 8 ; vi James 8 ; vn Joel Wm. 8 ; vni. Edw 8 ; 
in. Mary, 7 who m. Wm. Belknap, of Bos. ; iv. Eliza, 7 who m. Cyrus Hast- 
ings, of Bos. ; v. Joanna, 7 who m. Reuben Nichols, of Reading; vi. Otis, 7 
who m. Sophia Loud, dg. of Rev. Stetson Raymond, of Bridgewater, rs. 
Bos., and had Chs. Guild, Feb. 3, 1847. 



103. 107. Jabez, 6 m. Sep. 29, 1799, Mary Hartshorn, b. May 11, 1779, d. June 

5, 1807; 2d, Dorothy; i. Calvin, 7 Sep. 14, 1800, at Boston; n. James, 7 

Nov. 7, 1802, d. Aug. 7, 1821, at St. John's, Porto Rico; in. Francis, 7 

Sep. 22, 1805, m. Harriet Monson, fr. Providence, rs. at Bos., had 

l. James 8 ; n. Ann D. 8 who m. Lemuel N. Ide, of Bos. ; in. Mary 

Monson 8 ; iv. Frank Lewis 8 ; v. Edwin 8 ; vi. Charlotte Guild 8 ; 

vn. Alfred 8 ; 

iv. Charles Guild, 7 May 6, 1807 ; v. Mary, 7 Aug. 5, 1813, by 2d w. ; m. 

Aaron Bean, of Bos. ; vi. Eliza, 7 Sep. 23, '15, m. Stephen Sargent, of 

Bos.; vn. Henry, 7 June 28, '17, d. urn. Dec. 7, 1852; vin. Caroline, 7 

Jan. 31, '19 ; ix. Anne Maria, 7 Feb. 5, '22. 



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32J. 114. Wm. 5 Bullard, of Walpole, m. Hanh. Sumner, fr. Dedham, inherited the 
homestead in the N. E. part of W., and had, i. Irene, Oct. 26, 1766, m. 
Eliphalet Clapp, 1791 ■ n. Wm., Oct. 6, '68, d. um. j in. Isaac, 6 Sep. 9, 

'71, m. Nasorj, inherited the homestead, and had, i. Geo. (d.) ; 

n. Horace 7 ; in. Wm. 7 , r. W. ; iv. Delina, m. Asa Clapp; v. Char- 
lotte; vi. Sarah ; 
iv. Ichabod, 6 Jan. 3, '75, d. um. ; v. Hannah, 6 May 19, '78, m. Nathan 
Carroll, of W. ; vi. Anna, 6 Jly. 24, '80. 



CHAPTER IV. 



4. Jfgaaf. Bttllatfr, 1 on page 22, is confounded with Isaac, 2 the son of Wm., 1 
of Chap. VI. Since the preceding Chapts. were printed, I have consulted 
an ancient Record of Dedh., recently discovered, from which it appears, that 
Isaac, 1 although he signed her social compact, doubtless at Watertown, never re- 
moved to D. ; for, on the first division of her lands, 18 (6) 1636, no lot was as- 
signed him, or afterwards; and, as he was not taxed at D., nor, again, certainly 
mentioned on her records ; and cs his name nowhere occurs on the records of 

Watertowiij he probably either deceased Aug. 15, 18, 1636, or altered his 

purpose, and returned to England. It is not ascertained that he had a family. It 
is possible, that the Isaac who ra. Sarah Jones, from Dorch., in 1654, was his son ; 
but more probably, the son of his brother John. 1 His name was commemorated by 
his brother Wm. and nephew Benj., and, very likely, by his brother John, with 
whom Benj. 2 is supposed to have resided, after the death of his father. 



CHAPTER V. 



5. Nflttyatlicl jBulIatfr, appears from the record above mentioned, and 
from family documents in the possession of Lewis Bullard, Esq., of Dedh., 
not to have been of the first generation of Bullards in N. Eng., but the son 
of Wm. 1 For his family, see Chap. VI., No. 12. 



CHAPTER VI 



6. torn. BtlUfltfr, 1 was probably the oldest Puritan of the name who settled in 
N. Eng., and evidently a man of character and consideration. Circum- 
stances almost conclusive, indicate that he was the brother of Benjamin, 1 John, 1 
and Isaac, 1 but not of Robert 1 or George 1 . Of the time and place of his embarka- 
tion, no positive evidence has been discovered : still, we are not in total darkness 
about them. While on his voyage, it would seem that he became a witness of the 
nuncupative will of James Harvie, of Gamscolne, Essex county, (pr. now Colne 
Engaine, or Little Colne), Engd., who died on shipboard, leaving property in trust 
for a brother at Wethersfield, near Gr., and desiring Wm. Bullard " to take the 
whole business upon himself." This indicates that they had been neighbors. The 
will has no date. It was not probated until * * * * 1638, and then sworn to 
by Wm. Bullard ; [see Suf. Prob., 1, 15;] but as it provided that the avails of 
the property should be loaned two years to poor Christians before it should be sent 



57£ BULLARD. 

back to Engd., he not improbably delayed for more than two years, until he had 
collected the property loaned ; then made oath to the will, and at the same time 
proved the fulfilment of his trust. This would make him arrive in 1635, the year 
when so many came over, among whom were two others of the name of Ilarvie, and 
Samuel Morse and family, and no doubt his brother Joseph Morse, probable con- 
nections of the Bullards, each of whom had dispatched a son the year previous, as 
if to prepare tenements at Watertown against their arrival. These sons embarked 
at Ipswich, a convenient port for emigrants from Essex county. Samuel Morse 
embarked in the "Increase," Apl. 15, 1635, at London, another convenient place 
of embarkation for families from Suffolk or Essex, from one of which, since the 
publication of my Memorial of the Morses, I have been induced to believe my great 
ancestor originated. If Wm. Bullard came in the Increase, which was not im- 
probable, he must have embarked clandestinely, as distinguished Puritans were 
then obliged to do, for his name is not among her 112 enrolled passengers, nor 
on any similar list yet discovered. , 

He no doubt settled first at Watertown, and united with her church, from which 
he was dismissed in 1641. Here he engaged in the enterprise of planting Dedh. 
His name is eni'olled as the 53d signer of her social compact, and is found among 
the first to whom her lands were assigned, and on whom taxes were imposed. In 
the spring of 1637 he, with his wife and children, was pr. of the company who in 
boats ascended Chs. R. from W. to Ded., and on landing on the E. bank of 
D wight's brook, knelt in prayer for the blessing of Almighty God upon their settle- 
ment. He had land assigned adjacent to his brother John, and probably near 
West Common. Here he remained, and was annually taxed as an able inhabitant, 
and became one of the number to whom the management of the municipal interests 
of the town were confided. About 1653 he removed to Cambridge, where he m. 2d, 
Mary Grissel [Griswold], wid. of Francis G., who "had an estate, and two children 
by her former husband," and became with her a member of the chh. at Cambridge. 
He made his will in 1679, " being then about 85 years old." To this he added a 
codicil, May 2, 1684, and d. at his daughter Farrington's, in Ded., Dec. 23, 1686 ; 
and on the third day following, his estate was inventoried and his will subsequently 
probated ; [Suf. Prob., 9, 180.] He left a considerable estate in lands on Mystic 
R., in Charlestown, and in Ded. Nathl. his son, was appointed one of his executors, 
to whom he bequeathed his real estate in Ded. 

He had, pr. born in England, 
9. 7. i. Isaac, 2 whose name in 1651 was entered on the record of D. as made a 
Townsman, being then pr. of age, was taxed, 23 (10) 1652 and '53, 
above the average of her citizens: m. Ann Wight, and was the 117th 
signer of the social compact, and d. 11 (3) 1676 ; 
12. 8. ii. Nathaniel, 2 first taxed in 1654, d. May 1, 1705, m. Mary Richards ; 

in. Elizabeth 2 who m. Moses Collier, rm. to Wodbridge, N. J., had i. Eliza- 
beth, 3 m. Emmons and r. Bos. in 1727 ; n. Jemimah, 3 m. Gibson, 

r. W. in 1727. 

iv. Mary, 2 who m. 1650, John Farrington, of D. 



7. 9. Isaac, 2 m. Ann Wight, 1655, r. Ded., had i. Hannah 3 24 (12) 1655 ; a H. 
d. 11 (5) 1676 ; ii. Sarah, 3 7 (11) 1657 j a S. m. 1700-1 Math. Tomblin. 

13. 10. in. Samuel, 3 22 (10) 1659, m. Hannah Thorp, 14 (11) 1683 ; iv. Ju- 

dah, 3 10 (3) 1662 ; v. Ephraim, 3 July 20, 1664, d. Aug. 2, '64 ; vi. Ann, 3 
April 17, 1666; vn. John, 3 June 26, 1668, d. July 4, '68 ; vra. Mary, 8 
May 29, 1669 ; a M. d. 26 (6) 1682 ; 

14. 11. ix. Wm. 3 19 (3) 1673, "d. Feb. 9, 1746, a. 73, 7 mo. 22d," m. Eliza- 

beth Avery. 



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12. Nathaniel, 2 m, 1658, Mary Richards ; was a soldier in Philip's war; ad- 
mitted freeman May 15, 1690, and at his death bequeathed his estate to his 
wid. Mary, two daughters and grd. s.; r. Ded. I. Mary, 3 24 (10) 1659, 
pr. d. yg. ; II. Susanna, 3 19 (6) 1661, pr. d. yg. ; III'. Sarah, 3 July 31, 
1665, m. Eleazer Mayes, and had only Eleazer ; 4 iv. Judah, 3 Aug. 5, 1667 ; 
r. at D., um. 1710 ; v. Martha, 3 Aug. 6, 1670, r.atD., urn., 1710; vi. Na- 
thaniel, 3 3 (11) 1679, d. 3 (11) 1681. 



10. 13. Samuel, 3 settled in Dorchester; was chosen constable 1716, and surveyor of 
highways, Mar. 14, 1719-20, « '22-3, for the Precinct;" also, '24-5, '25-6. 
On May 18, 1722, he petitioned Dorchester to be set off to Dedb., but was de- 
nied. By the division of the town Dec. 23, 1726, he was included in 
Stoughtonham, chosen a member of her board of selectmen for the first three 
years of her corporate existence, and in 1732-3 one of a committee to peti- 
tion the Gr. C. for permission to purchase of the Indians land for ministerial 
use. He married Hannah Thorp, of Ded., 14 (11) 1G83, and had at D., 

31. 131. l Samuel, 4 9 (11) 1684, m. Submit White, at Dorchr., May 24, 1710, 
and as S. jun. was chosen surveyor, 1721-2 ; and pr. ab. this time was set 
off with a part of Dorchr. to Wrenth., where a Sam'l m. Elizabeth Wight, 
1722 ; ii. Hannah, 4 Aug. 3, 1687 ; 

13|. m. in. John, 4 Aug. 28, 1690 ;m Rebecca ; iv. Ann, 4 Jan. 15, 

1692-3; v. Sarah, 4 1695 ; vi. Ebenezer, 4 Feb. 10, 1697-8, at Ded., and 
pr. others in Dorchr. not recorded. 

13^. 13J. John, 4 r. in Dorchester and Stoughtonham, and m. Rebecca 



who was red. to full communion in the chh. at S., Oct. 26, 1730, and Nov. 8 
following presented her 5 eldest children for baptism. They had i. John, 5 
Sep. 13, 1719, at Dorch. ; n. Josiah, 5 Jly. 22, 1721 ; in. Samuel, 5 Sep. 
10, 1723; iv. Rebecca, 5 Sep. 22, 1725, at Dorchr. (a R. jun. m. at Ded., 
1771, Win. Coney, Jr.) ; v. Hannah, 5 bap. 1730, m. Dec. 29, '45, Nathaniel 
Sumner, at Ded. ; vi. Mary, 5 bap. May 14, 1731 ; a M. d. at Ded. Dec. 29, 
'45; vir. Henry, 5 b. Jan. 11, 1732, at Sto. ; vm. Anne, 5 b. Oct. 29, 
1733 ; ix. Ezra, 5 b. Jly. 6, 1735, at Sto., after which the name there disap- 
pears. 

11. 14. Wm. 3 Ens. settled upon the present homestead of the Bullards in D. and was 
through life styled cordwainer, but certainly not for sticking to his last. He 
seems rather to have been a trader, and "an insatiate lover of real estate." 
So many deeds did he take of lots in Ded., Walpole, Sutton, Upton, Sher- 
born Dividends (Douglas), Natick and Charlestown, as made him one of 
the great land owners of the colony ; and so many ancient family papers did 
he preserve and transmit, tending to throw light upon the history of his own 
and other races, that we and posterity ought to thank his memory and that of 
each inheritor of the legacy, for their careful preservation. May veneration 
and foresight continue to guard them both from the conflagration of the de- 
pository, and any female hand that wars with every thing old. He m. Aug. 

6, 1697, Elizabeth Avery, dg. of Jon a. A., of Ded., by w. Elizabeth , 

and grd. dc;. of Wm. A., physician, of Boston ; and had 

15. i. Wm. 4 May 9, 1698, d. pr. in 1737 ; m. Hannah Lewes, of Ded., Feb. 

15, 1721-2, rra. to Dorch. Precinct, had I. Hannah? bap. at Sto., 

Apl. 5. 1724 ; n. Elizabeth? b. at Ded. 1725, and probably others. 

n. Elizabeth, 4 Nov. 8, 1699, m. Nathaniel Kingsbury ; in. Jemima. 4 Mar. 

4, 1702, m Solomon Bullard, of Chap. Ill, No. 32, who s. on land at 

Walpole, pr inherited fr. her father. 



57^ BULLARD. 

iv. Anna, 4 May 28, 1705, ra. 1725 Jona. Whiting, of Rox. 

17. 16. v. Isaac, 4 Apl. 4, 1709, d. ab. 1776, m. 1731-2 Mary Deane. 

16. 17. Isaac, 4 Ens. and Coroner, reed, in 1731 of bis fatber, Wm., a deed of tho 
homestead in D., and was also styled cordwainer ; w. Mary Deane, m. 1731-2, 
d. 1745 : 2d w. Wid. Grace Deane, m. 1747, had i. Mary, 5 Mar. 23, 1733, 
d. yg. : ii. Mary, 5 Jan. . 19, '35 ; in. Catherine, 5 Oct. 7, '38, d. yg. ; iv. 
Catherine, 5 June 4, '40, m. "Wadsworth, of Milton. 

19. 18. iv. Isaac, 5 Jly. 10, '44, d. June 18, 1808, m. Patience Baker. 

18. 19. Isaac, 5 Dea. and Hn., inherited the ancient homestead, and erected in 1782, 

the present Bullard house, ab. 20 rods S. W. of the site of the original one ; 
and ab. 60 do. N. W. of the C. H. of D. He was a gent, of intelligence 
and sterling moral worth, much employed in the transaction of public busi- 
ness, being often placed on important Committees with his friend and 
neighbor, Fisher Ames. He long served the ancient Chh. in D. as a Dea- 
con ; was many years returned a representative to the G. C, and annually 
elected Treasurer of Norf. Co. from its first organization in 1793 until 1808, 
the year of his death. He m., 1766, Patience Baker, of Ded., and had 
i. Marv, 6 Nov. 30, 1767, m. Joseph How, of D. ; 

20. ii. Wm. G Jly. 19, 1769, d. Mar. 15, 1803, m. Lydia Whiting, of D. ; 

21. in. Isaac, 6 Jly. 21, 1771, d. , m. Rachel Pratt, r. Chelsea; 

23. 22. iv. John, 6 Jan. 9, 1773, d. Feb. 25, 1852; m. Lucy^Richards, fr. Dover. 

22. 23. John, 6 Esq. , inherited the Bullard mansion in D., was appointed a Justice of 
the peace by Gov. Lincoln, and succeeded to the regard and confidence of 
Norfolk Co., manifested in his election to the office of Co. Treasurer on the 
death of his father ; and so acceptable were his services, and so highly was he 
esteemed as a man, that amidst all the violence of religious and political 
feeling and the changes of office, he was, by the annual voice of the Co., 
continued in this responsible station from 1808 to 1852, when he passed to 
his final reward, amidst the regrets of the public and the sorrows of numer- 
ous friends. He had 
i. Maria, 7 May 4, 1803, m. H. F. Spear, M. D v rs. Dedham ; 
24. ii. John, 7 Jan. 2, 1807, m. Jane E. McKillup, rs. New-York ; 
■ 25. in. Lewis, 7 Aug. 13, 1810, rs. urn. on the homestead atD. t and transacts 
business as a merchant in Boston ; 
27. 26. iv. Wm. 7 Apl. 20, 1816, m. Mary R. Henderson, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 



26. 27. Wm. 7 now rs. at Brooklyn, and transacts business as a mercht. in New 
York. He has been very helpful in furnishing references and the genealogy 
of his family. He m., Mar. 3, 1841, Mary R. Henderson, who was b. 
at Thomaston, Me., and has 

I. Wm. Merrill, 8 b. Jan. 13, 1842; II. John Richards, 8 b. March 3, 1846; 
in. Lewis Henderson, Dec. 21, '48 ; iv. Mary, Feb. 18, '55. 



13i. 31. Samuel, 4 m. Submit White, May 24, 1710, at Dorchr. ; and pr. Elizabeth 
Wight, in 1722, at Wrenth., and as S. jun., was chosen surveyor at Dorchr., 
1722. He is supposed to have afterwards r. in Walpole and Ded., and to 
have been the father of the following brothers, viz : 

35. 32. i. Ebenezer, 5 who d. in Sharon, Mar. 4, 1801 ; 

33. ii. Josiah, 5 who m Abigail Lewis, who d. ab. 1835, a. 97; 

42. 34. in. Benj. 5 " b. in Walp. or Ded. ab. 1730," and pr. others. 





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32. 35. ELenezer, 5 w. Judith Goodell, fr. Pomfret, Ct., r., Ded. and Sharon, had I. 
Ebenezer, 6 ? jun. of S., who was pubd. to Jemima Mann, of Walp. Jan. 1, 

1785; II. Benj. ; in. Abner ; iv. Paul, rm. to N. Y. ; v. Dg., m. 

Billings, r. Francistown, N H. ; vi. Dg., m. Spur, r. Dorchr. ; vn. 

Silas, 8 b. Jan. 8, 1774, at S., m. May 24, 1798, Betsey Allen, fr. Dorchr, b. 
May 22, '79, d. Sep. 20, 1850, and had at Sharon. 

i. Deborah, 1 Mar. 7, 1799, d. 1833, m. Abel Hall, merch. rs. Bos. ; had 
5 chd. ; n. Betsey, 7 Feb. 13,1801, m. Alden "White, fr. Bos., rs. Sharon, 
'had 4 chd. ; in. Silas," Oct. 8, '02, m. Nancy Thomas, fr. Hanson, rs. 
Sh., had 6 chd. ; iv. Eunice, 7 June 12, '04, m. John Parks, fr. Exeter, 
N. H., rs. S., had 7 chd. j v. Mary 7 Apl. 25, '06, d. Aug. 24, '23 ; 
vi. John, 7 Feb. 24, '08, m. Sarah Dudley, fr. Heniker, N. H., rs. 
Leakesville, N. C., had 6 chd. ; vn. Sarah, 7 Nov. 13, '09, m. Lewis 
Smith, rs. Sharon, had 8 chd. ; vin. Catherine, 7 Sep. 23, '11, m. Hen- 
ry Porter, rs. Naugatuck, Ct., had 2 chd. ; ix. Isaac, 7 Jly. 11, '13, m. 
Mary B. White, rs. Bos., had 4 chd. ; x. Joel, 7 Apl. 4, '15, rs. Can- 
ton, m. May 21, '36, Maria B. Dow, fr. Salsbury, N. H., had 4 chd. ; 
xi. Emily, 7 Jly. 12, '17, d. '49, m. George Wiswall, rs. C, had 1 chd. ; 
xii. Ann, 7 June 27, '19, d. '19; xm. Wm. 7 Apl. 7, '21, m. Mary 
Khr, of Bos , rs. C, had 2 chd. ; xiv. Albert, 7 May 12, '23, m. Anne E. 
Baldwin, rs. C, had 4 children. 



34. 42. Beuj. 5 served in the war of the Revolution, and d. at Sharon, 1778, a. 48. 

He m. Judith Lewis, fr. Ded., who d. at S., Aug., 1810, a. 69 ys., and had 
46. 43. i. Benj., 6 Oct. 9, 1758, d. Apl. 4, 1838 ; 

n. Judith, Nov. 28, 1760, d. 1819. m. Edw. French, of Canton, Oct. 6, '81. 

in. Oliver, 6 Sep. 15, '63, d. Aug. 13, 1839, m. Abigail Gay, of S., ab. 1782, 

r. Francestown, N. H., and Bethel, Vt. ; 

iv. Zipporab, Nov. 11, '65, d. Sep. 24, 1854, a. 89, m. Israel Smith, 1789. 

v. Lewis, 6 b. 1768, m. Polly Leonard, of Foxboro', rm. to Francestown, N. H., 

ab. 1798--9, and returned to Foxb., where they d. ab. 1850. They had 10 

children, 5 of whom d. in infancy. June, 7 the oldest, m. Bradish Sumner. 

vi. Irene, 6 b. Jan. 21, '71, at S., d. 1815, m. Wm. Capen, 1802, r. Norton. 

vn. Samuel, Aug. 29, 1773, d. yg. 



43. 46. Benj. 6 a pensioner in 1832, m. Jan. 7, 1783, Hannah Holmes, of Sharon, 
b. Oct. 17, 1760, d. Jan. 10, 1849, a. 88, r. in S., and had i. Hannah, 
June 19, 1783, d. Aug., 1827, at Easton, m. Obed Harlow, 1809, r. Plm. ; 
n. Nancy, Sep., 1784, d. Nov., 1827, m. Ira Draper, '10, r. D. and E. 
Sudb. ; in. Mary, Sep. 26, '87, d. Nov. 4, 1821, m. Jan. 1, 1816, Addi- 
son Barstow, of Medfield ; iv. Betsey, Sept., 1790, d. Dec, 1822, m. Zeph- 
aniah Randall, of Easton ; v. Enoch, 7 Sep. 5, 1792, m., Dec. 12, 1819, Olive 
Gilbert, of Medf'd, long served as dep. Sheriff of Norf. Co., and rs. Sharon, 
had i. Helen M., 8 Jan. 5, 1820, at Medfield, m. Albert Richards, Apl. 29, 
'49, rs. S. ; ii. Frances M., m., 1842, Oliver H. Whittemore, rs. S., 
has 4 chd. ; in. Lucy Ida, m. Chester E. Morse, had a son, Jan. 6, 
'55, rs. S. ; iv. Sally Ann, m., Nov., '52, Geo. Richards, had a son, 
'54, (d.,) rs. S. : v. Daniel Webster, m., May, '52, Martha Curtis, rs. 
Roxb., had 2 chd. ; vi. John Marshall, b. at Roxb., is urn. 
vi. Sally, 7 Sep. 26, 1795, (d.,) m. Hobbs Johnson, (d.,) r. Shar., had 2 
child. ; vn. Benj , 7 Aug. 27, '98, m. Mary Dixon, dg. of Samuel D., of 



57f BUTXARD. 

Plym., and b. Jan. 29, 1806, d. Mar. 9, '35. He afterwards m. Maria 
Leonard, dg. of Cpt. Nathl. L., by w. Susanna Savels, rs. Sharon ; had 

i. Benj. B., 8 Aug. 9, 1827, d. Jan. 20, '30 ; n. Benj. B., 8 Jan. 6, '30, 
rs. Calif.; in. Mary Jane, 8 Feb. 2, '32, m. Frank A. Thomas, rs. 
Plym. ; iv. Joseph H., 8 Feb. 10, '35. 
viii. Josenh, 7 Aug. 27, '98, d. yg. ; ix. Lucy 7 , Sep., 1802, d. 1820. 



ABBENBA TO CHAPTER I OF BENJ. BULLARD'S 1 RACE. 

p. 23, No. 9. Benj. 2 had at Watertown two sisters, Anna 2 and Maudlin 2 ; to whom, 
with him, the selectmen of W. decided, in 1672, that an estate under incum- 
brance belonged. He was first rated at Dedham, 17 (12) 1654, only 3d., 
[pr. a poll tax] and again, 29 (6) 1656, 5s. Id., ab. an average sum. He 
was one of the last who signed without date the social compact of D. His 
name was entered, 1657-8, with those to whom land was about to be as- 
signed, but having in the mean time removed to Bogistow he received none. 
He m. at Ded., 1659, Martha Pidge, not Fairbank, as intimated on p. 23. 



p. 49, 157. Gardner, 6 d. Sep., 1842, a. 70 ys. 3 mo. ; w. Mehetabel Miriam, d. 
Jan., 1834; 2d w. Zilly Covel, m. Apl., 1837, r. Saratoga Springs, had 
I. Mehetabel, 7 Bee. 19, 1797, m. Apl. 14, 1825, Philo R. Waterbury, of 
S., and had i. Cynthia Ann, 8 Apl., 1828, m. Chas. J. Buell, rs. Sche- 
nectady; n. Edward Robinson 8 Aug., 1831, m. Oct. '34, Maria Au- 
gusta Rugg, rs. a silversmith at Saratoga ; in. Heman Lincoln 8 
Feb., '45. 
ii. Pamdia, 7 Aug. 17, 1799, m. Oct. 10, 1819, Benj. Hall, rs. Saratoga, 
had i. Mehetabel 8 Jan. 30, '21, m. 1841, Chauncey L. Williams, rs. S. ; 
ii. Pamelia C., 8 June 2, '23, m. Rev. Levi Parmely, rs. Elgin, 111.; 
in. Myron B. 8 Jan. 27, '26, m. Clarinda Buck, rs. S. ; iv Orin G., 
Oct. 16, '29; v. Edwin W. 8 July 1, '36; vi. Miles M. 8 June 12, 
'39 ; vii. Phebe Jane 8 Mar. 13, '45. 
in. Gardner, 7 June 24, 1801, rs. a trader at Saratoga Springs, m. Bolly 
How, Oct. 1, 1821, had i. Julius Augustus 8 Mar. 26, 1822, m. Mary 
Jane Mosier, Oct. 10, '41, rs. S ; n. James Justin 8 Jan. 23, '28, rs. S. ; 
in. Elon Galusha 8 Feb. 11, '30, m. Caroline R. Elms, '55, rs. S. ; 
iv. Mary Adaline 8 Mar. 26, '32, m. 1851, Robert Blackall, rs. Green 
Bush, N. Y. ; v. Sarah Emeline 8 Feb. 20, '36, m. '53, Joseph A. 
Christian, rs. New York. 
IV. Elon Galusha, 7 Jly. 16, 1819, d. June 13, '29. For an account of 
tbe remarkable piety of this child, see Bapt. Tract and Youth's Magazine, 
Vol. 3, No. 8. 
v. Sarah Ann Eustatia, 7 Mar., 1740, by 2d wife. 



37. 110. Elisha, 4 rm. and s. 1 m. W. of Bellingham Centre, and d a. 75 ys. 

37. 113. Baniel, 5 m. Mary (?) Albee ; 2d, Mary Blake ; 3d, Mary Wheelock ; 4th, 
wid. Mary Torry, and inherited the homestead at B. and d. a. 75 ; had i. 
Beborah, 6 d. um. ; n. Baalis, 8 Bea., r. Uxb., m. Joanna or Jane Pierce, had 
no issue; in. Wheelock, 6 who inherits the homestead in B., m. Sally 
Gould, had I. John, 7 (d.;) n. Leonard P., 7 m. Elizabeth Adams, r. Woon- 
socket, and has George 8 ; iv. Polly, 6 m. Allen Thayer. 



BULLARD. 57| 

37. 114. Elijah, 5 w. Milcah Pond, dg. of Aaron P., of Hoi., had i. Abijab, 6 s. in 

Sturb. ; n. Betsey, m. Thad. Spring ; in. Mille, 6 m. Jo. Wood. 

iv. Martin, 6 Sep. 13, 1782, m. Sally Corey, d. 1810 ; 2d, Nabby Carey, d. 

1844 ; and 3d, Clarissa (Underwood) Hawes, rs. at W'boro ; had i. Sally G 7 
Sept. 10, 1808, m. Natb'l W. Fay ; n. Franklin, 7 May 25, '10, m. Izan- 
na Pond, rs. W. ; in. Mary Ann 7 Apl. 10, '12, d. a. 13 ys. ; iv. Ethan 7 
Aug. 11, '16, m. Mary Daniels; 2d, Martha Daniels; 3d, Nancy 
Chamberlain, rs. Shrewsb. ; has Martin, 8 Jane, 8 Lucy, 8 and George. 8 
v. Geo. W., 7 Jly 25, '18, m. Emiline Harvey, rs Dundee, 111. ; vi. 
Emory, June 24, '25, in. Louisa Cooledge, rs. Milf'd, has Abby 
Josephine, 8 Emma, 8 Clara. 8 

v Ede, 6 m. also Jo. Wood. 

vi. Zadock, 6 m. Betsey Richardson, dg. of Doct. Joshua R., of Hoi., and 
Charlton, had i. Estes, 7 d. um. ; II. Edwin, 7 m. Juliet Morse Mann, dg. 
of David M., of W'boro, by w. Jerusha Partridge, rs. W. ; in. Chs. 7 
rs. Worces. ; iv. Betsey, 7 m. James Austin, rs. Wore. 

vn. Abner, 6 d. um. ; vin. Elijah, d. yg. ; ix. Ethan, 6 rs. Attleboro ; 

x. Pond, 6 d. yg. 

xi. John, 6 m. Lucy Justin; 2d, Eunice S. Clark, and had Matthew B. 7 
Elijah 7 Jane G. 7 Henry G. 7 James F? 

xn. Lyman, 6 d. um. ; xni. Almira, 6 d. a. 16. ; xiv. Rhoda, 6 m. Geo. Brad- 
ford, rs. Troy, N. Y. 

37. 115. Elisha, 5 w. Rachel Rockwood, r. Franklin, had i. Elijah, 6 r. Sutton ; n. 
Fisher, r. Dedham ; in. Elisha, 6 rs. Franklin ; iv. Piam, 6 rs. F. ; v. Ce- 
phas, 6 rs. F., m. Sukey Morse [see memo, of the Morses, p. 81.] bad i. 
Samuel Morse, 7 Dec. 18, 1818, rs. Hoi. m. Harriet Atwood War- 
field, b. Mar. 20, 1819, m. May 25, 1841., has Harriet C., 8 Jane M., 8 
Samuel A., 8 Carrie A. 8 ; n. Gatherine Fisher 7 ; m. Eliza Ann. 7 



37. 116. John, 5 bled to death, um. 



37. 117. Abel, 5 s. in Newfane, Vt., rm. to Canada, m. , and bad Mason, 6 

who r. Brattleboro. 



37. 118. Baruch, 5 s. in Uxb., w. " Julitta" Messinger, had i. Otis. 6 

ii. Luther, 6 r. Uxb., had i. John D., 7 rs. Hartford, Ct. ; n. Charles H. 7 Rev., 
rs. Rockville, Ct. ; in. George A., 7 rs. Philadelphia ; iv. Edward Payson/ 
rs. Uxb. ; v. JuliaA., 7 rs. Uxb. ; vi. Catherine M., 7 rs. Rockville. 
in. Fisher, 6 ; iv. Samuel, 6 d. um. 



p. 36, No. 99£. Mary, 5 m. Timothy Hill, rs. S. and H., see p. 104, had Timothy, 6 
who d. Oct. 1848, m. Olive Lovell, fr. Medf'd, b. 1770, d. Dec. 6, 184*3, 
had i. Lucretia, (p. 105.) 

ii. Horace, Ap'l 25, 1797, m. Hepsibah Fisher, fr. H. 2d, Sarah Daniels, 
fr. Milf'd. 

in. Henry (p. 105) in. Hannah Metcalf, fr. Frank, 
iv. Jemima, Mar. 23, 1801, d. Nov. 19, '40. 

v. Albert, 7 Mar. 12, 1804, m. Mary Cook, fr. Bell., b. Dec. 26, 1807, m. 
May 18, '31, rs. Shrewsbury, bad Adaline A., 8 June 30, '32, d. June 1, '48 ; 

Chas. W., H June 5, '34 ; Ellen M. 8 June 20, '36 ; Mary Ann, 8 Aug. 

26, '38; Geo. Albert, 8 Feb. 26, '41, d. Aug. 27, '42; Jemima A 8 

Dec. 30, '42. 



0<|- BULLARD. 



vi. Mary Ann, 7 Jan. 1, 1807, m. Valentine Coombs, of Med. 
vii. Cyrus M. 7 May 6, 1809, m. Almira Partridge, fr. Milfd. 

p. 49, No. 159. Nathan, 6 rs. Springwater, Liv. Co., N. Y., m. Elisabeth Fay, fr. 
Athol. who d. at Putnam, Wash. Co., N. Y , Ap'l, 1826 ; and 2d, Sarah 
Lester, '26, who d. '49 ; and had 
i. Eliza, 7 1801, at Hancock, N. H., d. Nov., 1825, m. '18, Jona. Blair, had 

John, 6 1819 j Jona.? '21 ; David* '23 ; Nathan* '25. 
ii. J. Barber 7 , 1802, d. 1826. 

in. Nathan, 7 1803, at Shrews., Vt., rm. 1827, to Aurora, St. Lawrence Co., 
and rs. Springwater, N. Y.. m. Lucy A. Lawrence, who d. '43 ; 2d, Theresa 
Aplin, m. '50., had RoVt F.* '34 ; Mary E.* '37 ; Lucy* '42. 
iv. Shepherd P./ 1806, at Shrews., r. Ticond. and Perry, Wyoming Co., 
N. Y., m. '32, Helen C. Burnet of Putnam, had H. Augusta* '34 ; Elisabeth 

R.,* '37 ; Annette P.* '40 ; Frank C* '44, at Perry ; and Edith* '51 ; 
v. Isaac, 7 1808, at Bradfd, Vt., d. '52, at San Fran., Cal., m. '43, Ann Tat- 
tershan, fr. Hornellsville, N. Y., had Mary E.* '48, and Charlotte* '51. 
vi. Susan, 7 1810, at Castleton, Vt., m. '48, David Lacv, jr., of Perry, had 

Frank E* 
vii. Francis, 7 181-2, d. 1814. 
viii. Francis, 7 2d, 1815, at Shrews., rs. Perry, 
ix. Mary, 7 1817, at Rutland, Vt., rs. P. 
x. Sabra, 7 1819, at Putnam, N. Y., m. '47, Eli May, of Springwater, had 

Marian J., 8 '48 ; Ella* '52. 
xi. T. Orestes, 7 1821, at Put., rs. Perry. 
xti. Eliza, 7 1826, at Put. 
xiii. Sarah D., 7 1828, at Put., d. 1846, m. '44, Eli May, of Springwater, had 

Eli S.* '45, d. '46. 



GRADUATES. 

Ch. i. 22. Adam Bullard, 1742, Harv. Col. 
I. 132. John Bullard, 1776, H. C, d. 1821. 
l. 132. Henry Adams Bullard, 1807, Harv. Univ., d. 1851. 
H. 64. Asa Bullard, 1793, A. B., 1811, M. D., Dar. Col., a. H. U., 

1809, d. '26., at Bos. 
I. 132. Charles Adams Bullard, 1819, H. U. 
i. 132. John Parker Bullard, 1829, H. U., d. 1845. 
i. 133. Eli Bullard, 1787, Yale Col., d. 1824. 
I. 132. Royal Bullard, 1810, do., d. 1846. 

Carolus H. Bullard, 1747, do. 
ii. 54. Daniel S. Bullard, 1817, Brown Univ. 
I. 139. Elias Bullard, 1823, do. 

Ward Bullard, 1833, Middle. Col. 

Cullen Bullard, 1829, M. D., Ver. Univ. 
i. 139. Malachi Bullard, 1841, Dart. Col., d. 
i. 79. Artemas Bullard, 1826, Amherst Col. 
». 79. Asa Bullard, 1828, do. 
i. 137. Amos Bullard, 1833, do. 

i. 79. Ebenezer Waters Bullard, 1834, Miami Univ., O. 
i. 166. George E. Bullard, 1853, M. D., Alb. Med. Col., N. Y. 
I. 168. Edwin Buxton Bullard, Hamil. Univ., N. Y., d. 1847. 



K I L L A B 1) . 

ADDENDA W I T H O ORREOTIONB. 



Ch. III. No. 20. Silas,* Lt., sun of Joshua by wf. Olive Harding, served as Lt. 
in the war of the revolution ; in. Mar. 26\ 1778, Sarah Baxter, dg. of Rev. 
Jos. B. of Medfield ; and 2d, in '82, Thankful Adams, (No. 229.) Had at 
M.— i. Ichabod,* Sep. 16, 1780, by 1st wife, d. yg. 

ii. Sarah, 6 by 2d wf., in. Wales Plimpton. 
in. Aincy,* m. Joseph Draper of Ded. 

iv. Moses,* b. Jly 26, 1796, rs. Medfield, in. Sep. 8, 1822, Eliz- 
abeth Taylor, dg. of John T. of Stough. Had : — 1. John 
T., 7 Oct. 1, 1823; 2. Marv, 7 Feb. 7, 1825, d. yg ; 3. Eliz- 
abeth, 7 Oct. 31, '26; 4. Miry J., 7 Feb. 9, '29 ; 5. Sarah P., T 
Nov. 18, '30; 6. Ellen Amelia C., 7 Jan. 12, 1831, d. yg. 
Ch. III. No. 23. Elijah Billiard/ b. Feb. . r >, 1781? s. of John by wf. Thank- 
ful Allen, m. June 28, 1*12, Mary C. Temple, dg. of Stephen T. fr. Wor- 
cester, rs. Mcdfd, had — 

1. John E., 7 b. May 15, 1n13, at Bos., m. Eliza Cole, rs. M., has John F.,' 

and Sarah E* 

2. Elijah C., 7 Dec. 18, '14 ; d. Jan. 9, '33. 

3. Wm. H., 7 Dec. 30, '15; m. Ann Hartshorn, rs. M., has Francis A.* 

Wm. H." and Chs. IF. 8 
1. Hinsdale F., 7 Aug. 28, '17; m. Emily Thayer, rs. M., has Geo. //.*, 
Emily M. t H Henrietta T., s Mary E., 8 Ada L.* and Leicester C. 8 

5. Mary O., 7 Feb. 13, '19 ; m. James Draper, rs. S. Natick, has Ellen E.* 

George R.* Susan G., 8 Jams* A.* Ida B.* and Laura A.* 

6. Betsey F., 7 Dec. 11, '20; d. Mav 4, 1854; m. Frank D. Richardson of 

Med., had Edwd F., 8 Daniels J* 

7. Laura A., 7 Dec. 7, 1 22 ; m. Bushrod W. Abbot fr. Ando., who d. Jan. 20, 

'52; and 2d, Frank D. Richardson ; rs. Med. 

8. Susan M., 7 Sep. 29, '25, rs. M. 9. Geo. E., 7 Nov. 30, '26, at Bos., d. 

Jan. 4, 1835. 10. Chs. C., 7 Mar. 2, '28, d. Apl. 1, '46. 11. Sarah J., 7 

Oct. 4, '29, rs. M. 12. Ellen F., 7 Sep. 17, '31, d. Jan. 29, '35. 13. 

Abby A., 7 July 11, '33, rs. M. 

Ch. 111. No. 116. Horace Bullard, 7 b. Dec. 10, 1804, s. of Isaac,* and grd. s. 

of Wm.,* inherits a part of the ancient homestead in Walpole, m. Sep. 3, 

1826, Ann Eliza Phillips, b. Dec. 19, 1804, dg. of Chs. P. of Taunton, had 

i. Geo. P., 8 Jan. 31/29, m. Nov. 27, *50, Clarissa Lewis of W., 

has Clara A., 9 and Ella A. 9 
II. Isaac H., 8 Oct. 2, '34, m. May 19, '57, Lydia Ann Capron fr. 

Attleboro', rs. W. 
ill. Chs. Horace, 8 Oct. 1, '36. iv. Sarah Ann, 8 May 26, '38, m. 
John Clapp of W. v. James E., 8 Jan. 27, '42. 
Since the publication of that unequalled genealogical work, The Watertown 
Family Memorial, the author, Henry Bond, M. D., of Philadelphia, with his char- 
acteristic generosity and kindness, informs me of his discovery of a bond by 
Henry Thorp, who m. the wid. of Robert Bullard ab. Nov. 25, 1639, which 
; roves that Benjamin Bullard, named at the head of this article, was the son of 
Robert and Ann Bullard. The use of his name in his minority as sole male heir 
to his father among the owners and grantees of Watertown lands, led me into 
the belief in a Benjamin B. before him, whose lands in W. he inherited. This, 
with the corrections in my reprint of Chaps. IV, V, and VI, reduces the ances. 
tors of the New England Bullards to 4; viz., Robert, George, John and William, 
pr. brothers or near relatives 



58 BUTLEIi, C HADDOCK, CHAMBERLAIN. 

I. Thomas Butler, w. Martha , came 1745 fr. Ipswich, and s. in Hopk. 

His will of '04, proved Mar. 6, 176G, mentions chil., i. Tho.; n. Stephen; 
in. Abigail ; iv. Wm. ; v. Daniel ; vi. Hannah ; vn. Sarah ; viii. Martha ; 

6. 5. ix. Jeremiah ; x. Elizabeth ; xi. Ruhama ; xn. Hiphzibah ; xm. Aaron. 

5. 6. Jeremiah, Executor of his father's will, m. Martha Morse, May 22, 1755, 
had at Hopk., I. Polly, m. Jesse Miller, son of Maj. M., of Holl. 
ii. Martha, m. Isaac Jones, of H'pk., had Rev. Isaac J. A. M. , of Derry. 
9. 7. in. Aaron, m. Sarah Jones, grd. dg. of Col. John, of Hop. 

iv. Joel, m. Deborah Adams; 2d, Lydia Chamberlain, r. Winchendon. 

7. 9. Aaron, by w. Sarah Jones, had at Hopk., i. Hannah, m. Joseph Hunt, of 

Upton ; ii. Aaron, m. Mehetabel Greenwood, 2d, Abigail Johnson. 
12. 11. in. Jeremiah, Esq., Jan. 3 9, 1789, m. Emily Pratt. 

iv. Ruhama, m. Nathan Johnson, fr. Holl., r. Dudley or Southboro'. 

II. 12. Jeremiah Butler, Esq., served his time, 1812-14, at S., as an ap- 

prentice at carriage-making, and in the autumn of 1815, s. in S., where he 

has ever since resided. He served as Coroner from Feb. 19, 1824, to '45, 

and has been an acting Justice ever since Feb. 8, '43, to the present time, 

'55. He m., Nov. 5, 1818, Emily Pratt, fr. Fram., and had 

i. Harriet, June 1, '21, d. Feb. 7, '51, m. Geo. Daniels, had Emma A.; 

ii. Olive, Aug. 10, '20, d. Oct. 4, '20. 

in. Mary Rosaline, June 22, '28, m. Vorestus Ware, of S., had Edgar 

Butler, drowned Ap. 29, '49, Arthur B., Joseph W., Mary E. B,, 

Edgar V. x Clarence Henry. 



Thomas ChaddOCk, w. Margaret ■ , had Zeruiah, Nov. 10, 1734, at H. 



ChambGrlain, The name of Chamberlain occurred early at Concord. 

1. Wm. a proprietor of Billerica, 1058 ; Wm., jun., and John, of do., '79. 

2. Tho. admitted freeman, 1044, of Woburn, 1051, and Chemsford, 1058. 

3. Henry was of Hingham, 1035-40 ; 

4. Richard, of Braintree, had Richard, born 1042. 

5. Edmund, of Haverhill, admitted freeman, 1065. 

0. Moses Chamberlain, fr. Dedham to Sherborn, ab. 1800, had i. Charlotte, 
and ii. Jabez Dexter, both d. yg. He bought of Moses Perry, 3d, and 
erected tanning works, now Dea. Fisk's. 

7. James Chamberlain, w. Hannah, had at S., Cyrus, Jan. 15, 1769. 

8. Samuel Chamberlain, of Holl., m. Margaret Bullard, of Mend., May 13, 
1755, and had at H., i. Elizabeth, Oct. 10, 1756 ; n. Jemima, Nov. 1, '58. 
in. Rhoda, Nov. 27, '00. 

9. Enoch Chamberlain, w. Elizabeth; i. Abigail, Nov. 18, 1758, d. Feb. 9, 
'60 ; ii. Olive, Sept. 3, '00, d. Nov. 8, '73; in. Wm., June 21, '02. 

iv. Enoch, Sept. 28, '64, d. Jan. 0, '73; v. Elijah, Feb. 1, '07, d. Sept. 
12, '73 ; vi. Eliphalet, Jan. 0, '09, d. Dec. 27, '72. 

10. vn. Calvin, June 27, '71; vm. Elizabeth, Jly. 2, '74. 

11. ix. Enoch, Ap. 3, '78; x. Luther, Mar. 10, '81. 



CHURCH, CLAFLIN, CLARK. 59 

13. Jason Chamberlain, b. Feb. 26, 1701, s. of Jacob C, of Newton, m. 
Hannah Clark, had i. John, Sept. C, 1728, at Newton. 

19. 14. II. Staples, Sept. 1, 17-50, at H., to whom and Br. John, Dea. John Staples 

bequeathed £100 when of age ; uh- Jason, Lt., Mar. 8, '32, d. '70. 
16. in. Samuel Jly. 18, '34, m. Margaret Bullard ; iv. Enoch, Nov. 18, '37; 
v. Elizabeth, Feb. 26, '39-40, d. Mar. 13, '39-40 • vi. Eben., Aug. 9, '41. 

14. 19. Staples Chamberlain, Cpt., d. May 25, 1796, w. Abigail, had at II. 
26. 20. i. Jason, May 31, 1758 ; n. Eliphalet, Mar. 27, '63, d. June 19, '66. 

21. John Chamberlain, w. Sarah, had at II., i. Sarah, May 8, 1756, m. Samuel 
Phipps, '72 ; ii. Mary, Nov. 18, '57 ; Barsheba, Nov. 17, '60 j iv. Anna, Mar. 
18,' 64, d. Dec. 23, '05 ; v. Moses, Oct. 26, '66; vi. Ebenezer, Sep. 6, '70. 

24. Wm. Chamberlain, w. Betsey, had at H., i. Elijah, Ap. 13, 1783. 

ii. Sarah, June 1, '84; in. Betsey, June 1, '84; iv. Olive, Jan. 12, '86. 
v. Clarissa, Feb. 5, '88 ; vi. Polly, Jan. 7, '90. 

20. 26. Col. Jason Chamberlain, m. Abigail, inherited the homestead, was a man of 

more than common education, and long a leading citizen of H., representing 
her in the convention that adopted the Fed. Constitution, and often in the 
Gen. Court. lie entered warmly into the political questions of his day, ever 
acting with the parties opposed to the Constitution and the administration of 
John AJams. 
27. i. Jason Rev. Prof., A. M., Feb. 9, 1784, grad. at B. XL, s. as a pastor in 
Vt., was chaplain to the Leg. of Vt., Prof, of languages in V. University, 
and Land Agent in the Western Country where he was drowned, um. 
n. Eliphalet, d. without issue ; in. Mary, Jan. 10, '87 ; iv. Nathan, Oct. 
9, '88, d. Jan. 20, '89; v. Abigail, Dec. 21, '89; vi. Calvin, d. Mar. 14, 
'92; vii. Tim., b. Jan. 25, '93; vm. Staples, May 25, '96; ix. Nath'l 
Whiting, Jan. 13, '98. 



Jona. Church, w. Thankful, had at S., i. Rebecca, Sept. 4, 1753. 



1. Caleb Claflin, m. Huldah Fisk, May 19, 1763, at H. ; 

2. John Claflin, fr. Hopk., the s. of Ebenezer C, whose ancestors were fr. Scot- 
land, m. 1770, Mary Sheffield, dg. of Isaac S., the former proprietor of Doct. 
Fisk's farm, and s. half m. N. E. of N. E. corner of Milfd., and had 
i. Amaziah, Jly. 5, '73; n. John, June 24, '75, s. in Milfd., f. of Horace 
B., of New York; in. Polly, Aug. 13, '79; iv. Luther, Oct. 30, '81; 
v. Martin, Mar. 24, '84 ; vi. Calvin, Nov. 17, '86; vn. Moses, Feb. 27, '89. 

9. Wm. Claflin, s. or neph. of John above, m. Sabery , had i. Wm., Aug. 

3, 1797 ; ii. Erepta, Sept. 3, '99. 



1- Jonas Clark, early of Cambridge, is supposed to have had i. Samuel, - 
who removed to Concord, 1686, and there died 1730. His wife, Ruth, d. 
1722. Samuel had i. John; n. Win., who m. and had Wm., jun., Jan. 20, 
1717, at C.; in. Benj., who m. Rebecca Flagg, and had Ben}., who d. Feb. 
11, 1809, a. 91. 
7. 6. iv. Arthur 3 ; v. Susanna; VI. Hannah. 



60 CLARK. 

6. 7. Arthur Clark csme from Concord to S., 1715-18, m. Oct. 20, 1719, Han- 
nah Morse, dg. of Daniel M., by w. Elizth. Barbour, and grd. dg. of Daniel, 
and gr. grd. dg. of Samuel M., of Medfd., s. on her patrimonial estate, on 
the E. side of farm Lake, shared in the grants at Doug., 1730, and was sis 

years selectman. Pie m. for his last w. Mrs. Sarah , fr. Concord, who 

d. June 2, 1799, a. 99, and had by 1st wife, i. Sarah, Oct. 1, 1720, m. Benj. 
Morse, '52. / 

11. 8. ii. Samuel, 4 .June 11, '22, d. Mar. 14, 1795; (in. Asa, 4 Mar. 14/23-4, 
s.in Frank., and had issue j iv. John, 4 Oct. 7, '25, d. Nov. 1G, '26. 

17. 10. v. Daniel, 4 Dec. 3, '27, df Aug. 16, 1805. 

8. 11. Samuel, 4 m. 1746, Mary More, from Sud.,and2d, Sarah Harrington, '53-7, 

was selectman 1773 and '83, inherited E. half of the homestead, and had 

i. Molly, 5 Oct. 13, '47, in. Jonah Clark, and s. at Petersham. 
19. 12. ii. Samuel, 5 Aug. 7, '49, m. Elizabeth Learned ; in. Arthur, 5 Jly. 24, '51, 

a soldier of the revolution, burnt to death at Jeffery, N, H., Mar., '85, urn. 
21. 13. iv. Wm., s Dea., Oct. 21, '53, d. Ap. 15, 1846, m. Elizabeth Whitney. 

v. Joseph, 5 May 6, '58, d. Jan. 20, 1837, m. and settled at Gardner. 

vi. Josiah, 5 Ap. 27, '60, d. '79, urn., in the army. 

vii. Benj., 5 May 30, '62, d. Nov. 28, 1827, m. and settled at Gardner. 
23. 16. viii. Asa, 5 Nov. 20, '63, d. 1846; ix. Eunice, May 14, 1765, m. Stephen 

Purlin, of Petersham ; x. Lois, 5 Mar. 24, '67, d. Dec. 24, '91, m. Mr. 

Pierce ; xi. Esther, 5 May 25, '69, d. um., a '19 ; xn. Timothy, 5 Aug. 6, 

'71, d. um., Dec. 29, 1800. 

10. 17. Daniel, 4 m. Joanna, , inherited the homestead, and had 

25. 18. i. John, 5 Nov. 22, 1750, m. Silence Barbour, June 17, '84 ; n. Hannah, 

Aug. 13, '61, m. June 19, '88, Enoch Draper, of Dover ; in. Olive, Sept. 

9, '64, d. yg. ; iv. Olive, Mar. 19, '72, m. Geo. Colburn, of Ded., Jan. 1, 

1804; v. Daniel, bp. Jly. 9, '75. 

12. 19. Samuel, 5 m. Elizabeth Learned, b. Dec. 26, 1756, dg. of Capt. Edward 

L., by w. Sarah Pratt, fr. Newton, and grd. dg. of Dea. Benoni L., of S., 
by w. Mary Fanning, s. on the West Sherborn road, 1* m. W. of the Com- 
mon, where Bev. Amos Clark resides. He was a soldier in the revolution, 
and had 
31.20.1. Amos, 6 Bev. A. M., Ap. 23, 1779, m. Pamelia Poor; n. Elizabeth, 
Nov. 16, '82, d. Mar., 1852, m. Moses Bullard, r. Princeton. 

13. 21. Wm., 5 Dea, long a leading and honored citizen of S., early imbibed the 

spirit of '76 ; entered the army in the commencement of the conflict, served 
5 years as a soldier, was in the battle of Bunker Hill and at the surrender of 
Burgoyne, became a member of the chh., served her as deacon and the Town 
as selectman, kept a store and tavern upon the plain where his son Alpheus 
rs., was much employed in settling estates, and sustained through a long life a 
high character for responsibility, soundness of judgment and integrity. He 
married Elizabeth Whitney, June 21, 1784, dg. of Hon. Daniel Whitney, who 
d. Feb. 27, 1835, He died Ap. 15, 1846, a. 92, 6m. He had 
22. i. Alpheus, Esq., Mar. 29, 1785 ; n. Polly, Jan. 20, '89, d. yg. 
in. Polly," Jan. 18, '92, m. Samuel Leland, of S. 

16. 23. Asa, 5 m. Mehetabel Esty, inherited the homestead at the Farm, and had 

i. Nathan, Ap. 9, 1794, d. Mar. 14, '95 ; ii. Sally, June 21, ^95, m. 
Walter Barbour ; in. -Nelly, Dec. 27, '96, rs. at the homestead ; iv. Samuel, 



CLARK. 61 

Juno 1, '99, (]. Nov. 27, '99 ; v. Elijah, also June 1, '99, m. Parmelia 
Haven, r. H. ; vi. Asa, 8 Feb. 6, 1801, d. yg. ; vir. Lydia, 6 Ap. 20, '03, d. 
yg. ; vm. Asa E., u Dee. 9, '04, d. ab. 1838, m. Clarissa Whiting, had no 
issue; ix. Lydia G., 6 Nov. 16, '06, d. Oct. 23, '08; x. Dexter, Mar. 19, 
'10, d. a. 15 yrs. ; xi. Mehetabel E., Jly. 20, '13, d. a. 19 yrs. 

18. 25. John. m. Silence Barbour, and inherited the homestead and had 

r. Prudence, Mar. 1, 1788, m. Hopestill Lovell, of Med., Oct. 1109. 
li. Caroline, Mar. 2, '90 ; in. Daniel, June 7, '92 ; iv. Lewis, Jly. 1, '94. 
v. John, Nov 5, '90; vi. Arthur, Sept. 0, 1800; vil. Silence, Mar. 22, 
'07 ; Tin. Cyrus, Mar. 23, '07, d. yg. 

20. 31. Amos, Rev., A. M., prepared for Col. under the instruction of Rev. Elijah 
Drown, of S , grad. with honor at H. U., 1804, studied theology with Rev. 
Pres. Bates, then pastor at Dedham, with whom he subsequently became 
closely connected by marriage. In 1806 he was licensed to preach by the 
Ded. Asso. But being of too slender health for the peculiar labors of the 
pulpit, he engaged in the calling of a classical instructor, preaching only 
occasionallj*, and dividing his time between Ded., Boston, Salem and Sher- 
born, and spending about 5 years in each place. Many of his former pupils 
whose minds and hearts he contributed to form, have risen to great eminence, 
in the different professions, who by their inquiries, still evince an interest in 
his welfare honorable to all parties, proving him to be rich in friends. 
In 1828 Mr. C. became stated supply to the only pulpit in his native town, 
and on May 20, 1830, was here ordained and settled as the 7th minister of a 
parish 155 years old. This office he sustained until 1842, when the feeble- 
ness of his health called for his resignation. But his usefulness did not 
cease; and he has continued to watch over the interests of learning in S., 
and occasionally resume the desk which he had resigned. He represented 
S. in the Leg. of Mass., in 1845. He m. Pamelia Poor, dg. of the excellent 
Dea Daniel P., of Andover, the brother of Gen P., of Revolutionary fame, 
and the grd. dg. of Col. Fry, of French and Indian war celebrity, and had 
i. Elizabeth, Jan. 26, 1808, m. Rev. Philander Bates, A. M., r. Virgil, N. Y./ 
n. Samuel, Esq., A. M., Sept. 15, 1809, m. Elizabeth Fisher, r. N. boro'. 
III. Daniel, M. D., Ap. 10, 1811, m. Mary E. Flint, dg. of Rev. Jacob F., 
of Cohasset, r. Flint, Mich. ; iv. Amos, Feb. 2, 1832, r. unm. in Flint. 
v. Nathaniel Fry, Jan. 8, 1815, in. Eleanor Leland, r. S. ; 
vi. Edward, Mar. 10, 1817, m. Cornelia Monro, r. Flint, 
vn. Henry B., Nov. 12, 1818, m. Martha Battiste, r. Chs'town, S. C- 
vm. Hannah P., Nov. 4, '20, d. Aug. 2, '21 ; ix. John B., Nov. 28, 1822, 
student of medicine, r. Flint, m. Cornelia Miles, May, '54 ; x. Hannah P., 
Oct. 20, 1824, d; Oct. 15, '25 ; xi. Anna B., Dec. 6, 1820, d. Oct. 9, '30 ; 
xn. Anna P., Jan. 28, 1829, m. Cadis B. Boyce, '52, r. Boston. 

Uriah Clark, w. Ruth, had at S., i. Gideon, May 15, 1757. 

38. Michael Clark, b. June 14, 1701, and d. Dec. 12, 1829, was fr. Needh. to 
S., m. Lucy Allen, who d* Aug. 25, 1808, a. 46. He m. 2d Susanna 
Perry, Jan. 1, 1809, who d. Aug. 11, 1815, and 3d Abigail Fisk ; and had 
at S. i. Charles, June 14, 1790, s. in Charleston, S. C. ; ir. Henry, Aug. 
10, '91, r. Dorchester; in. Martin, Feb. 22, '93, m. Sally Bullard, and d. 
at Savanna, Ga., without issue ; iv. Geo., Jan. 10, '95, r. S. boro. 
v. Lucy, Mar. 31, '96, m. Henry Pratt, r. Roxb. ; vi. Mary, Jan. 21, '98, 
d. Ap. 12, 1800; vn. John, Ap. 17, 1801, r. Keen, N. H., in. Clarissa 



62 CLEALE, COBB, COLE, COLLAR, COOLIDGE. 

Daniels ; vin. Mary Allen, Sept. 30, '09, m. Nathaniel Dowse ; ix. Anna, 
Feb. 1/12, r. S., urn. j x. Joseph P., Dec. 29, '14, r. S., um. 

45. Theophilus Clark, b. Ap. 19, 1722, the son of Theoph., of Med.,pr. de- 
scended from Joseph C, of Medfield, d. Nov. 24, 17G0, w. Experience 
, r. Holl. ; i. Jothara, d. Dec. G, 17G0. 

4G. Nathl. Clark, w. Sarah, r. Holl.; i. Esther, May 25, 1765 ; n. Saml., June 
20, '67; in. Sarah, Sept. 26, '69; iv. Joseph. Sept. 18, '73. 

47. Samuel Clark, pr. s. of Nathl., w. Julia , had at H., i. Joanna, Nov. 

23, 1795 ; ii. Simeon, Aug. 16, '97 ; 

49. Benj. Clark, w. Lydia ; i. Warren, Aug. 3, 1781. 

51. Nahum Clark, pr. s. of Theophilus, 2d, w. Mary, had at H. i. Jotham, Jan. 
13, 1773 ; ii. Beulah, Jan. 12, '75 ; in. Abijab, Sep. 1, '76, m. Lydia, 
and had Elie, Dee. 24, '98 ; iv. Cynthia, Jly. 1, '78; v. Theophilus, Feb. 
16, '84; vi. Nahum, Nov. 27, '86; vn. Lucinda, Ap. 2, '90. 



Joseph Cleale, b. May 12, 1794, at Ipswich, Mass., s. of Jos. C. (fr. Horton, 
(Somersetshire, Eng.,) by w. Mille Mann, fr. Walpole, Mass., s. in W. S., 
ab. 1816, m. Susan Wood. 2d Grace (Chamberlain) Hewens ; 3d, Betsey 
R. Tisdale, has i. Alfred, by 1st w., m. Mary Snelling, rs. H. ; n. Lydia Ann ; 
in. Susan A., m. James Robertson Whitney, ; iv. Joseph A., d. a. 17. 
v. Alonzo, d. a. 15; vi. Albert; vn. Augustus; vin. Artec 
ix. Edwin; x. Isabella; xi. Jos. A., by 2d w. ; xn. Mary A. 



jmas. 



AlHOS Cobb- Sarah Fairbanks had i. Amos, at S. 



Stephen Cobb, w. Abigail, had at H., i. Abigail, Mar. 12, 1744-5 ; 

ii. Stephen, Apl. 12. '46, d. Jan. 18, '54 ; in. Lydia, Dec. 7, '48, d. Jan. 

11, '54; iv. Abigail, Dec. 10, '50; v. Ebenezer, Jly. 4, '54. 

Samuel Cobb, m. Rhoda Partridge, Aug. 11, 1763, had at H., i. Hannah, 
Dec. 28, 1763, d. May 17, '64 ; n. Japhet, Mar. 28, '66; in. Amos, Sep. 
25, '68 ; iv. Luther, Mar. 19, '72. 

Seth Cobb, w. Kate, had i. Lydia, Sept. 20, 1770, at H. 



OniSSimUS Cole, m. Jemima Leland, had at S., i. Olive, Ap. 6, 1772. 

ii. Thaddeus, Dec. 4, '73 ; in. John, June 2, '76; iv. Samuel, May 3, 
'78; v. Sally, Sept. 7, '80; vi. Joseph C, Aug. 29, '84; vn. Mima Cobb, 

Oct. 2, '92. 

1 »>» ■ — 

Phineas Collar, w. Hannah, had at S., i. Eliz'th., Mar. 30, 1731. 



John Coolidge n , (a soldier in Philip's war, and by trade a carpenter,) came 
from Watertown, about 1080-5, and was rated for the Indian title, 1686, 
and drew land, 1696, s. in the N. part of S., where Daniel C. now resides. 



OOOLIDGE. 63 

He was the s. of Ens. John C, of W., and the grd. s. of John C, who 
emigrated pr. in 1G30, from Cambridgeshire, and settled in W., which town 
he served as selectman, and in 1058 represented. . [Bond.] The Cooledgo 
family in England, according to Mr. Somerby, are of great antiquity, and 
early had their representatives among the gentry. 
John, 3 served S. 10 years as selectman, and 5 years as Town Clerk. He m. 

Mary , who, as his wid., drew land in Doug., 1715, and d. Sep. 13, 

1724. He d. Jan. 18, 1713-14, a. 51 or 57, 11 mo. He had 

2. i. Isaac, Esq., Apl. 21, 1685, d. June 2, 1701 ; n. Daniel, Jan. G, 1687, 
d. May 20,1707 ; in. John, Aug. 31, 1689, d. Jan. 23, 1711-12. 

iv. Hannah, Jan. 8, '92, m. Jona. Fairbanks, June 2, 172G; v. Sarah, Oct. 
13, '94, ro. Nathaniel Morse, of MedfJ. 

3. vi. James, Oct. 17, '96, d. 1761 ; vn. Mary, May 13, 1701, m. Jona. 
Russell, Jly. 13, 1727 ; vm. Peter, Eeb. 17, "'02-3, m. Abigail Wheelock, 
Apl. 12, '23, 2d, Margt. Ellis, Jan. 2, '28-29, r. Medfield. 

ix. Amos, Cpt., May 16, '05, d. Sep. 27, '82, m. Mary Lelar.d, Dee. 25, 
'28, had Sarah, b. and d. 1741. He m. 2d, Zerviah Brown, Feb. 25, '68. 



2. 6. Isaac, Esq., m. Hannah Morse, dg. of Capt. Joseph M., inherited the home- 
stead, was maj. in the militia, served S. 3 years as selectman, and 5 years 
as representative ; i. Hannah, Mar. 18, 1710-11, m. Tho. Russell. 

10. 7. ii. John, June 21, '14 ; in. Grace, Mar. 18, 16-7, m. Ezra Holbrook, Nov. 
30, '38; iv. Lucy, May 3, '19, d. Mar. 27, '91, m. Joseph Crackbone, 
Oct. 10, '50. 

15. 8. v. Joseph, Apl. 22, '26; vi. Isaac, (according to Bond.) 



7. 10. John, m. Anne, r. S. and Natick ; u Anne, May 5, 1741 ; n. Mary, Jly. 28, 
'42 ; in. Elizabeth, Dec. 17, '44 ; iv. Isaac, Aug. 29, '47 ; v. Abigail, Jly. 
10, '49. 
22. 12. vi. John, Ap. 22, '52 ; vn. Samuel, 1753 ; vm. Tho., 1755. 

ix. Elizabeth, 1756, d. '57 ; x. Elizabeth, 1758, m. Ebenr. Eames, of Fram. 



8. 15. Joseph, m. Elizabeth Frost, Jan. 26, 1746; I. Joseph, Mar 31, 1747, d. 
Mar. 31, '47 ; n. Grace, Oct. 14, '48, d. Dec. 10, '50 ; in. James, Apl. 11, 
'51, s. in Gardner, where he d. aged above 90. 

26. 17. iv. Daniel, Mar. 13, '53, m. Beulah Smith, from Need. 
v. Grace, May 27, '55, m. Joseph Ware, Esq. 

28. 18. vi. Joseph, Jan. 16, '57, m. Martha Daniels; vn. Joel, Cpt., Jly. 19, '59, 
m. Martha Ware, Oct. 11, '81, had Chs., Jan. 30, '82; vm. Hannah, 
Nov. 18, '61, m. John Phipps, r. S. ; ix. Abraham, Jan. 1, '64, m. Sarah 
Hemmingway, Jan. 1, '89, r. Marlboro', N. H. ; x. Hezckiah, Feb. 13, '66, 
m. Esther Cleaveland, Aug. 12, 90, r. Marlb. ; xi. Sarah, Jan. 25, '69, 
m. Luther Haven, rs. m Milford, had two sons. 
xii. Asher, May 28, 1771, d. yg. 



12. 22. John, m. Eunice Eames, 1780, and had at Natick, 

v. Samuel, Aug. 28, 1790, advantageously known as the publisher, at Bos., 
of the Massachusetts Teacher, who m. Mary Bates, Ap. 23, 1815, had 
i. Samuel B., Sep. 18, 1815, d. Dec. 3, '41 ; 
25. 24. ii. George, Aug. 7, 1817, m. Hepsy Ann Seaver ; 

in. Mary, Nov. 23, 1820, m. Geo. Hager, rs. Boston. 



64 COOLIDGE. 

24. 25. George, rs. at Dcd., conducts business in Bos. as printer and publisher ; is 
the author of several published articles of merit, and particularly of a poem 
on "The Joys of Toil," delivered at the anniversary of the Bos. Mech. 
Appren. Lib. Asso., Feb., 1850, which alone entitles him to rank among 
literary men. His acrostical stanza to his infant son is a curiosity well 
worthy of a place in Goold Brown's standard work, " The Grammar of Eng- 
lish Grammars," where, as I learn from Mr. B., it would have found a place 
had he earlier met with it. The reader will notice that the initial letters of 
all the words in the stanza form the name. To secure its preservation for 
some work like Mr. Brown's, showing the flexibility of our language, I here 
introduce it : 

Go Ever Onward, Righteous Glories Earning, 

As TJnderstandingStruggles Through Its Night, — 
Creative Omnipresence Only Learning, — 

In Duty's Garland-pathway Erudite. 



in, 



Mr. C. m. Hcpsy Ann Seaver, Aug. 29, 1843, had i. George Aust,.., 
Apl. 12, '45, to whom the above lines refer; n. Anna Louisa, Jan. 8, '47 ; 
in. Ellen Frances, Feb. 8, '49 ; iv. Samuel Horace, Aug. 29, '52. 

17. 26. Daniel m. Beulah Smith, May 11, 1780, inherited the ancient homestead in 

S., was selectman 5 years and an ornament to religion. He d. Sept. 10, 
1840. His wid. d. ab. 1845, one of the excellent of the earth. They had 
I. Charlotte, Nov. 27, 1781, m. Hez. Fuller, of Needham ; n. Clarissa, Ap. 
21, 1783, m. Dea. Danforth Colburne, of Ded. ; in. Calvin, Mar. 19, '85, 
m. Patty Hyde, r. Fitz Wm. ; iv. Beulah, Aug. 27, '87, m. Andrew 
Bullard, of S. ; v. Daniel, June 24, '89, m. Hannah Frost, fr. N. Marlb., 
r. S. ; vi. Lucy, Sep. 1, '91, d. unm., Sep. 11, 1851, exhibiting in a won- 
derful degree the power of divine grace ; vn. Aaron, Dea., Oct. 7, '93, 
m. Catherine Hill, had i. Emily, d. yg. ; n. Eliza, m. Wm. Dowse, 
in. Aaron S. ; iv. Amos H., A. M. ; v. Horatio, d. yg; vin. Elizabeth, 
Feb. 5, '96, d. unm., a. 26 ; ix. Cally, June 27, '98, m. Horatio Cooledge, 
r. S., x. Curtis, Jan. 21, 1802, m. Orinda Cooledge, r. S. ; xi. Harriot, 
Aug. 27, 1804, m. Wm. Phipps, of Frank. 

18. 28. Joseph, m. Martha Daniels, r. S. part of S , had i. Lemuel, Feb. 2, 1782, 

m. Clarissa Leland, r. Rutland ; n. Lowell, Nov. 10, '84, m. Elizabeth 
Richardson, from Med., r. S., had 

I. Geo. ; n. Orinda; in. Martha; iv. Lowell-, v. Loioell, m. Julia 

Ann Church, b. Jan. 24, '26, m. '47, d. Apl. S, '54, leaving Emma 

E. and Julia Ann. 
in. Horatio, June 20, '95, m. Cally Cooledge, and had 

i. Elizabeth, (d.) ; n. Joseph D., m. Jan. 11, '51, Sarah A. Clark, 

r. S., has Elizth. F. ; in. Nelson; 
iv. Martha, Aug. 19, 1800, d. ag. 12. . 

3. 32. James m. Freelove Monk, settled on the Gookin Farm, now James Bullard's, 
where he kept a tavern, was selectman, ] 744-5, had i. Freedove, d. yg. 
ii. Hezekiah, Jly. 18, 1729, grad. H. Col., '50, d. at Crownpoint, Dec, 
1701, an Ensign in the army ; in. James, Nov. 8, '30, d. yg. ; iv. James 
d. June 23, 1757 ; v. Mary, Jan. 7, '31-2, d. Mar. 11, 1813, m. Benj. 
Ware, 2d, Col. Samuel Bullard ; vi. Abigail, Jly. 3, '35, m. Joseph Fair- 
banks, d. without issue. 



CORBETT, COUSINS. 65 

1. Nathaniel Corbett, w. Huldah, had at II., i. Chyron, Sep. 10, 1787. 

ii. Lucy, Mar. 24, '89 ; in. Nath'l, Dec. 23, '92; iv. Julima, Nov. 24, '95, 
v. Ruth, Nov. 24, '99. 



1. Edmond COUSinS, of Pulling Point, one of the first of the name in 

N. Eng., m. 1656 or 7, Margaret Bird, an Irish maid servant to John 
Grover or Glover, of Rumncy Marsh. Traditions of Irish blood in the 
Cozzens certainly existed among the aged 100 years ago. 

2. Tsaae Cousins, of Boston, locksmith, whose wife, in 1G5G, was Elizabeth. He 

m. 1657, wid. Ann Hunt, formerly the wife of John Edwards. In 1658 
he sold out at B. to Edward Clark. An Isaac C, pr. the same, was of 

Haverhill, 1653 and 59. Isaac Cousins, of Boston, by w. Rebecca , had 

i. Rebecca, b. Ap. 2, 1660, and 
5. 4. ii. Abraham, probably. 

4. 5. Abraham Cousins, who had served as a soldier in Philip's war, was in 
Sherborn, 1678, m. Mary Eames, at Woburn, dg. of Tho. E., and late a 
captive among the Indians, drew land in S., Jan. 7, 1683, and settled 
between Chestnut and Dopping Brooks where Jesse Kingsbury rs., drew 
land in Douglas, 1715, was rated in S. for the Indian title, 1686, and d. 
Feb. 28, 1728-9, the year that his grand dg. Rebecca, my gi'andmother, was 
born, by whose perfect recollection my youthful mind was stored with facts 
and reliable traditions which have justified assertions in these sheets, not 
substantiated by any record. He had 

13. G. i. Abraham, Aug. 22, 1685, m. 1709, Abigail Wilkinson, of Ch'stown. 

15. 7. ii. Isaac, June 2, 1688, d. Jan. 20, 1739-40. 

18. 8. in. Jacob, Aug. 13, 1692. 

20. 9. iv. Joseph, also Aug. 13, '92, d. 1759, m. first, at the age of 50. 

v. Mary, May 10, '95. 

10. Samuel Cousins, pr. a brother of Abraham, r. and had in S., by w. Deborah, 

11. i. Samuel, Jan. 31, 1692 ; n. Benj., Feb, 16, 1696-7. 

G. 13. Abraham m. Abigail Wilkinson, of Charlestown, who d. Dec. 21, 1754, 
and with his father and brothers drew 204 acres in Doug., and was one of 
a Committee to build the first meeting house in Holliston, in 1726, and 
d. 1726-30. He had 

i. Abraham, drew 42 acres in D., 1730, pr. aged 21, an only son, who m. 
Phebe Fairbanks, of Med., 1759, had no child, recorded. 
ii. Unis, Oct 16, 1716, d. Apl. 5, '18; in. Abigail, Feb. 20, 1718. 
iv. Ruth, Jan. 12, '23-4. 

7. 15. Isaac, m. Martha (Haven) Wessan, who d. Oct. 21, 1746, at H., was 
constable in S., 1721, s. 1 m. S., of Washacum Pond, in Ashland, and had 
i. Isaac, May 13, 171G, d. unm. ; n. Martha, Dec. 2, '17, d. unm., Mar. 
12, '37-8; in. Elizabeth, Nov. 25, '20, m. Daniel Jenning, of H., Jly. 11, 
'39, and had i. Daniel, and ii. Isaac, both of whom s. on the homestead, 
iv. Sarah, Nov. 22, '23, m. George Whitney, of Hoi. 

21. 17. v. Joseph, Feb. 2, '26, d. Dec. 27, 1787, a. 61 ; vi. Rebecca, Mar. 24, 

'28-29, d. Nov. 19, 1807, m. Ezekiel Morse, of Med. 

,vii. Mercy, Aug. 24, '32, d. Oct. 26, 1770, m. Joseph Johnson, of IT. 

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66 . CRACKBONE. 

8. 18. Jacob, m. Mary Wallis, pr. dg. of John W., by w. Mary, of S., bad 

i. Joshua, Mar. 21, 1723-4, and removed to II. I. 

9. 20. Joseph, m. Rebecca Hill, Nov. 3, 1742, dg. of Doet. Elcazer H., of S., 

r. S., had i. John, Oct. 14, 1743, d. yg. ; n. Mercy, May 8, '45, m. 

Rider ; in. Rebecca, Nov. 25, '46, m. Samuel Lamb, r. Phillipstown. 

iv. Ruth, May 27, '50. 
28. 22. v. Asa, Oct. 17, '52, m. Lois Cousins, and d. Jly. 25, 1825. 

vi. Malady, Dec. 11, '54, m. Theophilus Candy, r. N. Y. 
34. 23. vii. Isaac, June 7, '57, m. Susanna. 

17. 24. Joseph m. Susanna Eames, who d. Dec. 18, '59 ; 2d, Abigail Jones, dg. of 
Col. Jones, of Hopk., and who d. May 25, 180G, a. 80. Joseph inherited the 
homestead in Holl., now Ashland, and had i. Martha, Apl. 18, 1747, m. 
Robt. Muzzy, r. Dublin ; n. Joseph, May 24, '49, killed in the war of the 
revolution ; in. Susanna, m. Isaac Cousins, of S. 

27. 26. iv. Isaac, Aug. 29, '62, d. Aug. 28, 1843, m. Sarah Morse, his cous. 

v. Abigail, Mar. 28, '63, d. Mar. 25, 1853, m. Isaac Jennings, of H., her 
cousin, who d. Apl. 27, 1821 ; vi. Lois, m. Asa Cousins, the cousin of her 
father. 



26. 27. Isaac inherited the homestead of his father, grd. and gr. grd. father. 

i. Rebecca, Nov. 22, 1785, m. Reuben Cozzens of S. ; n. Nabby, Nov. 14, 

'87; d. Nov. 13, 1806; m. Jesse, Nov. 29, '89, m. Nancy Dowse; 

iv. Isaac, Feb. 14, '92, m. Mary Fay, has Mary, m. Milton Bullard, of 

Bell. ; v. Anna, Ap. 19, '94, m. Jona. Eames. 

vi. Sally, Dec. 30, '97, d. yg. ; vii. Myra, Oct. 2, '99, m. Henry Babcock. 

vin. Dexter, Sep. 21, 1807, m. Caroline Eames, from Hopk., rs. near 

Pawsett Hill, of which he is proprietor, in the S. part of S. 

22. 28. Asa inherited the ancient place of the family in S., m. Lois Cousins. 

i. Asa, Jan. 2, 1777, d. yg. ; n. Joseph, Jly. 30, '79, d. in H., m. Ruth 
Stratton, r. Hopk., and Jeffery; ill. John, Ap. 30, '81, m. Ruth Cheney, r. 
Holl., now Ashland, had Henry and John, (d.); iv. Reuben, Feb. 23, '83, m. 
Rebecca Cozzens, bis cousin, r. 1 m. s. of the W., and was killed, Sept. 14, 
1853 ; v. Levi, Aug. 7, '88, r. unm. in Ashd. ; vi. Lois, Mar. 5, '88, m. 
Asa C., her cousin, and 2d, Joseph Eames; vn. Polly, May 17, '91, m. 
Ebenezer Twitchell, r. Jackson, Me. ; vin. Julia, July 17, '93, m. Joshua 
Twitchell, r. Jackson, Me. 

23. 34. Isaac, a blacksmith, m. Susanna Cousins, 1779, r. opposite his brothers. 

i. Asa, Feb. 8, 1781, m. Lois Cousins, had no issue. She m. 2d, Joseph 
Eames, of Ashland ; n. Susanna, Nov. 13, '84, d. unm. ; in. Isaac, Oct. 
13, '87, d. unm. 

1. Joseph Crackbone, w. Lucy Cooledge, had at S. i. Lucy, Ap. 14, 1752. 

ii. Hannah, Dec. 19, '53, m. Sylvester Bedlam, '92, r. Ashford, Ct. 
in. Mary, Aug. 14, '56 ; iv. Joseph, Sept. 4, '58. 
3. 2. v. Joseph, Oct. 20, '59. 

2. 3. Joseph, m. Abigail Clapp, Jan. 1, 1782, and had at S. i. Lemuel, Mar. 27, 

1783, d. Sept. 16, '86 ; n. Polly, Dec. 6, '84 ; in. Lemuel, Oct. 18, '86. 
iv. Sukey, Aug. 12, '88 ; v. Nancy, Mar. 9, '91 ; vi. Lydia, Mar. 20, 
'93 ; vn. Hannah, Mar. 19, '95 : vin. Joseph Oct. 22, '97. 
ix. Charles, Nov. 22, '99. 



CRAGRIN, CROSSMAN, CURTIS, GUSHING, CUTLER. 67 

Cragrin, w. Kcziah, had i. Hannah, June 25, 1777. 



James CrOSSman, w. Mary, had i. Eunice, Mar. 1G, 1772. 



Ebenezer Curtis, m. Martha Hollowall, Jan. 25, 1749-50, had at Holl. 

i. James, Mar. 12, 1752, m. Abigail , and had I. Jason ; n. Elijah, 

Mar. 27, '96; n. Ebenezer, June 20, '56 ; in. Sarah, May 3, '58. 

iv. Elizabeth, June 27, '60; v. Adcsah, Jan. 9, '63; vi. John, Feb. 26, 

'66. 

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Williams CtlShing, s. of Rev. Jacob Cushing, D. D., of Waltham, and grd. 
son of Rev. Job C., of Shrewsbury, was born Dec. 6, 1756, m. Sarah 
Bigelow, Ap. 12, 1781, and took up his residence in S. about 1800, and 
was the father of Jacob C, who settled on the road to W. Sherborn, about 
60 rods W. of the long meadow, m. Eliza Wight and had i. Francis E., m. 
Augusta M. Ware ; n. Frederick ; in. Isabella. 



Jonathan Cutler, s. of Jona. C, of Reading, said to have been from England, ? 
s. W. of Chicken Brook, on Abraham's plain and 100 rods W. of the R. R. 
deep cut. He purchased the lot of 147 acres adjacent to him in Med., which 
in 1659 had been assigned by Medfield to their minister, Rev. Mr. Wilson, 
and prior to 1753, built a saw mill on Chicken Br., N. E. of the W. depot 
in H. He was a prominent citizen and acted as moderator of T. meetings. 
He m. Abigail Clark. In 1761, Apl. 27th, he completed the settlement of 
his estate, deeding to his son Simeon, when of age, the E. half of his original 
lot, on which he then lived, containing 80 acres, and valued at £133, 
bounded E. by Tim. Patridge and Ezekl. Morse, N. by John Goulding, W. 
by Jona. Cutler, jun., and S. by said Cutler's land, reserving to his wid. 
the improvement of the same, during the minority of S. He gave to Holl., 
1753, the right of way through the centre of his farm in exchange for land 
reserved on the N. side of it, for a road between Medway (former) line and 
John Goulding's land, but retained the privilege of flowing across it as 
high as his dam. He had i. Wm., Mar. 24, 1726, at Bellingham ; 

ii. Mary, b. pr. 1728-32, m. Eames, of Holl. ; in. Abigail, Ap. 15, 

1734, d. May 21, '36, at H. 

iv. Jona., Nov. 6, '35, m. Jerusha Blake, s. 80 rods N. E. of the upper 
Depot in H., had Calvin, who inherited his homestead and had i. Paul and 
Amos, f. of Rev. C. (d.) of Newton; v. Abigail, Nov. 14, '37, m. Eben- 
ezer Leland, of H. 
8. 4. vi. Moses, Feb 11, '39-40, m. Lydia Blake; vn. David, Jly. 17, '42, m. 
Lydia Bixbee, r. Hopk. 

11. 6. vm. Ebenezer, Nov. 24, '46, m. Esther Bacon, from Wrenth., '72. 

13. 7. ix. Simeon, Col., Jly. 9, '49, d. Jly. 13, '99. 

x. Lydia, Jly. 1, '51, m. Joseph Johnson, Jan. 1, 1772, r. Hopk. 

4. 8. Moses settled in H., f m. W. of his father's, where Reuben Fairbanks after- 
wards resided, became a separate and occasionally preached. He had 
i. Moses, Sep. 24, 1767 ; n. Aaron, Feb. 9, '70. 

6. 11. Ebenezer, s. ab. 1 m. N. W. of the homestead, became a separate, occa- 
sionally preached, though in opposition to the advice of the friends of re- 



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ligion. He was an upright, well meaning, and hopefully pious man. He 
had by w. Esther Bacon, i. Esther, Feb. 5, 1775, d. unm., a very devoted 
Christian, whose biography was published. 
12. ii. Jona , Dec. 27, 1780, an efficient memb. of the Methodist Chh. in Holl. 



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Mellen, 2d, Sophia (Rock wood,) 
Jemima Bullard, has 



Col. Simeon, m. Elizabeth RockwOod, a woman of much energy and 
moral worth, who was b. Dec. 23, 1753, and d. May 1, 1849, dg. of Timothy 
R., senr., by w. Elizabeth Perry, dg. of James P., by w. Elizabeth Death, 
and grd. dg. of Joseph P., of S., by w. Martha Lovet, and gr. grd. dg. of 
John Perry, of S., by w. Bethia Morse, dg. of Daniel, and grd. dg. of 
Samuel Morse the Puritan. Col. Cutler kept a tavern during the war of 
the revolution, and was a leading citizen of Holl. He had 
14. i. Elihu, Esq., May 25, 1771, m. Levina Newton, 1798 ; 
ii. Martin, Dec. 28, '73, m. Elizabeth 
Holbrook, inherited the homestead, had 

i. James Mellen, Aug. 1, 1800, rs. H., m. 

James iV., Henry E., Albert M., Mien J. 

ii. John Milton ; in. Simeon ; iv. Betsey ; v. Abner H. ; vi. Josephus 

W. ; by 2d w., vn. Martin L., rs. Albany, N. Y. ; vin. Timothy R., rs. A. 

in. Uriel, Oct. 27, '76, m. Nabby Morse, had S. Morse, rs. on a part of 

his gr. grd. father Cutler's homestead, (see Memorial of Morses), 
iv. Ursula, Aug. 29, '79, m. James Mellen, and d. leaving a son. 
v. Sally, Mar. 4, '82, d. unm., an amiable accomplished young lady, 
vi. James, Dec. 9, '85, an early and great contributor to the growth of H., 
m. Nancy Leland, dg. of Dea. Asaph L., of H., had # 

i. George, A. M. and M. D., rs. Charlestown ; n. Francis, rs. H ; 
in. Roswell, M. D., rs. Bos. ; iv. James, jun., rs. Bos. ; v. Addison, 
(d.) ; vi. Willard, rs. B. ; vn. And. J. (d.) ; vin. Chs. rs. B. 



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17. 



14. 18. Hon. Elihu Cutler, as a conspicuous citizen of H. in the last century and the 
early part of the present, is included with those whom it was the original design 
sign of this work particularly to notice ; and though the whole of his history 
cannot be now given, yet, considering his very great age, and the improbability of his 
surviving the publication of this work, I make no further apology for adding an epitome 
of his life. He was born of respected parents. His father was a farmer and inn- 
holder, and held the commission of Col. in the militia, to which great honor was 
then attached. His mother was a woman of natural refinement, uncommon energy, 
and high moral worth — truly an excellent woman. From them he inherited no 
fortune. But they taught him to govern his passions, to be under a subordination 
now obsolete, and to apply himself diligently to business ; and thereby contributed 
more to his future happiness and success than the largest fortune could have clone 
without them. He passed his minority in assisting his father upon the farm and in 
the tavern, and in learning the trade of a wheelwright, attending, for short terms, 
such district schools as H., in her poverty, could then provide. Yet his mind, 
naturally strong and active, somehow accjuired a good common education, and even 
mastered treatises upon metaphysics. 

The information he acquired, and his ability to impart it, rendered his society 
attracting and profitable. Mental culture, often acquired by the study of business 
as well as books, early marked his countenance and gave dignity to his manners. 
These, coupled with a good measure of common sense, rendered him the first young 
man in H. This occurred at an age when seniority gave precedence, and before men 
guilty of grey hairs were found unfit for council and the selection of their public ser- 
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the fathers and modestly waited for a call to posts oi distinction. Thus did young 
Elihu Cutler. But be did not wait long ; not longer than ignorance and impudence 
are now forced to wait after a self-nomination or the results of a conclave of political 
blacklegs. His first appearance in a public capacity that I can remember was that of 
n arshaf on the great and mournful occasion of the funeral of Washington ; and well 
do I remember the grief which sat on all countenances, and the solemn order in which 
he led the procession, and the laudatory remarks of aged mourners on his part of the 
solemnities. From about that time, for nearly 40 years he was connected with the 
public measures and transactions of H. ; and if not the projector of all, what one it 
might be asked, was ever brought to an advantageous conclusion withou him (bo 
portion of the influence he exerted, or of the good he accomplished, is to be measured 
L the offices he filled. Honest and frank in his political views as a federalist he 
was soon after the origin of the opposing party thrown into a minority But he 
was not the man to change his coat or anticipate the modern fashion of making him- 
self one of patched work* showing the colors of all parties He stood by his prin- 
ciples and remained in the minority, until libels on Hartford Convention proved 
more efficient than truth, and the federal party were slandered into dissolution. _ But 
for that circumstance, his name had been 20 years earlier connected with the history 
of Mass legislation. In 1820 he was chosen a member of the convention to amend 
the State Constitution, and in 1827-8 to represent H. in the House, and subse- 
quently the county of Middlesex, in the Senate of Mass., and was the first State 
Senator ever chosen from H. Long prior to this he had been appointed a magistrate. 
But it is as a man of a symmetrical character, faithful and true in the various relations 
of life as an upright, high-minded and honorable gent., and particularly as the con- 
stant friend and benefactor of H., that he commands our respect and merits a grate- 
ful remembrance. Years after he came upon the stage, dwellings in H. were no 
thicker than farms. On the main street from the E. to the W. Depot, a dis- 
tance of 3 m., there were only 13 houses (3 once painted), o blacksmith and 2 
wheelwright shops, and one for mending ploughs, employing 12 or 14 hands a part 
of the time. No shoe-shop, big as a Hessian tobacco box, was there to be seen. 
One tavern, one store, and his little corn-mill, accommodated the farmers. Iho 
ancient for^e and trip-hammer had completed their dotage j the soil was exhausted 
and science°had found no remedy. All was stagnation. The young and enterpris- 
ing were removing, never to return. But he did not despair. He rebuilt his mill j 
enlarged his shop: erected a tannery and established a point of business such as bad 
not before existed in the town, creating at the same time in an honorable way, much 
of the capital invested. He saw that H. might be redeemed and built up by manu- 
factories. But prejudices against them were universal, and in instances, violent. 
These were to be overcome. He collected information, conversed with his neighbors, 
and at length exhibited a feasible plan of a mill. He did not wish to/urnish operatives 
or secure The agency ; and he could make investments elsewhere with equal or better 
prospects of gafn. But this would give no impulse to his beloved H He therefore 
formed a company of his townsmen, who erected the first mill in H., about 1814. 
Embarrassed as the enterprise became by a change of times, still it gave an impulse in 
the right direction that never stopped. Attraction, aided by his tact and powers of per- 
suasion, now began to overcome repulsion. Tradesmen and mechanics were induced 
to stop ; and that more might be accommodated as well as private interest advanced 
he and his brother, Mr. James Cutler, purchased the farm S. of the Common which 
Jud»e Scwell, in his penitence for sending witches to the gallows, gave H. tor her 
first°minister. This they divided into house lots, disposing of some and building 
upon others. And now H. had a centre ; soon a village, with room for every branch 
of business : so that young men who had sought it in vain at b. for shoe manufac- 
tories, found here a welcome and accommodations. One accession brought another, 



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and Esq. C lived to see the village of which he was a father, attain the size of a 
borough. Yet he did not accomplish all. Others of equal capital and enterprise 
may have done more ;* still, but for his foresight, tact and enterprise, they had done 
the same somewhere else, and H. might have remained like her mother to this day, 
without a village or any centre of business. For 100 ys. after the incorporation of 
H. the township was of an ugly and inconvenient form, extending from Bellingham 
corner nearly to Framingham Depot, yet less than 1 m. wide in the centre, compar- 
able to a crooked-necked squash, growing to the N. bank of Charles R, or to a pair of 
saddle-bags hanging on the N. W. corner of Medway, with the N. E. bag stuffed and 
the S. W. empty. Every attempt to effect an exchange of territory with Med. had 
failed. But as soon as he was placed in the legislature his influence vanquished op- 
position, the needed exchange was effected, my birth-place transferred to another 
town and Co., and all the inhabitants of H. relieved from living in deformity. 

To him the parish of EL, now the orthodox soc., are vastly indebted. 30 years ago, 
in the vacancy of the parish, two parties arose under the leadership of men known 
to me as of opposite religious feelings and views, under one of whom there was 
every prospect of the introduction of a preacher of the liberal school ; and of the 
ultimate and permanent division of the Parish. Sach a result Esquire C. could have 
hastened, and secured a minister with views more congenial with his own, and 
probably, a large majority of the parish. But this would have been inconsistent with 
his regard for the peace and prosperity of H. He stood aloof and watched ; and 
when the morning of the very first day for action dawned, he was in motion ; and 
before resting he got the leaders and chief members of both parties committed for the 
settlement of the best orthodox candidate in the field, concealing, as he went, from 
each the pledges obtained from the other. Notices were soon posted, and the parish 
assembled with all legal speed (for opposition of course) , and the vote early called ; 
when lo ! each party was surprised and diverted to learn that the other had blun- 
dered into a unanimous vote for Josephus Wheaton for minister. Hostilities now 
ceased for want of excuse for carrying on the war. This wise and magnanimous act, 
perfectly consistent with liberal professions, has, in my view, saved a generation from 
the curse of religious discord, and contributed to the perpetuity and extended enjoy- 
ment of privileges the most precious. Such were some of his services. Such and 
more was Elihu Cutler — a model citizen after whom may others pattern. 

He m. Lavinia Newton, dg. of Simeon N. of H., by w. Jerusha Marsh, settled 
upon the place previously her father's, \ m. N. of the Common. After her decease, 
he m. 2d, Persis Phipps in 1843, and had 

i. Simeon N., Sep. 28, 1797, rs. Ashland, and her late representative, m. 

Mary Fitts, fr. Seekonk, had i. Ellen (d.); n. Edward (m.); in. Henry 
(m.) ; iv. Lavinia (d.); v. Martha; vi. Cornelius; vn. Win.; 
vin. Chs. 

ii. Betsey, b. Aug. 22, 1801, resides with her father ; 

in. Sally, Nov. 13, 1803, d. May, 1849, m. Jas. B. Wilson, r. Med., had 
i. Jane L. (m.); n. Jas. R. (d.); in. E. Cutler ; iv. Helen, (d.) ; 
v. Chs. (d.); vi. Isabella ; vn. Jason E. 

iv. Elihu, Hon., Dec. 7, 1806, d. Apl. 19, 1855, a gent, of strong powers 

of mind, liberal information, and extensive influence, the 2d State Senator 

fr. H., m. Ptebecca Temple, and had I. Elbridge J. Cutler, A. B., Principal 
of Mt. Hollis Sem. in H. ; n. Jason T. (d.); in. Arthur C. (d.); 
iv. Elihu (d.); v. Helen F. (d.); vi. Arthur H. . 

* Mr. James Cutler built the AVinthrop House, and more than 40 others, disposing of 
most when finished, at small or no advance on the cost. Col. Hawes and Messrs. Batch- 
elder built largely in the centre ; and Col. Bragg might bragg of braggish improvements in 
Braggville. 






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v. Charles, M. D., d. Dec, 1839, r. Grafton, m. Mary A. Gt. Strickland, 
had Caroline (d.) 

David Cutler m. Mehitabel Whitney, Jan. 26, 1846, at II. 



Nathaniel Dana, w. Elizabeth, had i. Colville, Feb. 28, 1770, at II. 



1. Robert Daniel, previously of Medfield, s. in Sherb. prior to 1715, 
B. of the Clark Tavern, and on the N. side of the new road fr. Fram. to 
the Farm bridge, where Obadiah Morse afterwards lived. He was pr. 
the son of Samuel D., and grd. s. of Robert D., of Cambridge, who m. Rhena 
Andrew for a 2d w. in 1654, and made- his will in 1655, naming Eliza- 
beth, the wife of Tho. Fanning, Samuel, Joseph, Sarah, and Mary Daniel. 
Robert of S., had by w. Esther, i. Robert, prob. who was first allowed to 
draw land in Doug., 1730;' n. Hester, Feb. 7, 1695-6 ; in. Lydia, Oct. 
5, 1698; iv. Deborah. Apl. 1, 1700, d. Apl. 3, 1700; v. Hanh.;'Apl. 6, 
1702. 
48. 2. vi. Samuel, Jan. 16, '04-5, m. Lydia Hill, Jan. 15, 1729-30, r. Holl. 
vn. Ephraim, Mar. 25, '07 ; vm. Joshua, Feb. 1, '09-10. 

3. John Daniell, w. Sarah, pr. brother of Robt., sold 1711. to Hope Lealand, 
150 acres, in W. Med., had at S., 

i. Sarah, Aug. 28, 1701 ; n. John, Apl. 3, '03 ; in. Samuel, Apl. 
3, '08; iv. Jerusha, Feb. 13, '10. 

4. Joseph Daniel, m. Mary Fairbanks, Nov. 16, 1665, dg. of Geo. F., of S., 
and s. in Med., near Bogistow Brook, S. E. *of Richardson's mills, where 
Paul Daniels resides. On his premises a man was killed by Indians in 
Philip's war. He had 

6. 5. i. Joseph, 23 (7), 1666; n. Mary, 4 f5), 1669, whose son, Henry 
Daniels, of Med., lived to the age of 99; ni. Samuel, 20 (8) 71. 
iv. Mehetabel, Jly. 10, '74. 
20. 51 v. Ebenezer, Apl. 24, '77 ; vi. Elizabeth, Mar. 9, '79 ; vn. Jeremiah, 
"Mar. 17, '80, d. June, 1680; vm. Eleazer, Mar. 9, '81. 

5. 6. Joseph, jun., m. Rachel Patridge, dg. of John P., of Medfd., 2d, Bethia, had 
12. 7. 1. Jeremiah, Nov. 5, 1684, by 1st w. ; n. Rachel, Oct. 7, '86. 

ill. Zachariah, Apl. 9, '89, d. yg. 
26. 8. in. Samuel, Dec. 25, 1693, by 2d w. 

38. 9. iv. Joseph, Dec. 15, '95 ; v. David, Feb. 21, '98-9, m. Magdalen , 

had Seth, 1737, at Med". ; vi. Hannah, Sep. 30, 1701. 
75. 11. vn. Ezra, Mar. 10, '03 ; vm. Sarah, May 1, '07, m. John Bullard, '33. 
ix. Abigail, d. yg. ; x. Tamer, 1717. 

7. 12. Jeremiah, m. Hannah Partridge, May 7, 1713, dg. of John P., by wife 
Elizabeth Rocket, and 2d, Mehetabel Wilson, Jan. 7, 1754, 1. Rachel, Oct. 
30, 1714, m. Elisha Adams. 
14. 13. n. Jeremiah, Sep. 30, 1754 ; in. Hannah, 1756, m. Amos Lawrence, of 
Union, Me. 



13. 14. Jeremiah, Hon., m. Pearly Richardson, 1785, dg. of Moses R./ by w. 
Abigail Allen, of Med., and had at M. 



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63. 15. i. Timothy, Nov. 7, 1785, m. Ruth Death, and s. in S. ; 

ii. Eleazcr, Cpt., Jan. 30, '88, m. Charlotte Richardson, and had i. Hilton, 

June 9, 1816, r. Med., n. Anson ; 
in. Paul, Dea., Jly. 17, '89, m. Eliza Breck, and owns the ancient home- 
stead in Med., and had i. Perlee, m. John Bullard, of Med. ; n. Martha 
m. Wm. Daniels, of Med. ; in. Eliza ; iv. Joseph L. ; v. Eliiah • 
vi. Charlotte L. J ' 

5^. 20. Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth Partridge, Dec. 22, 1701, who d. Apl 25 1706 
He m. 2d, Mary, who d. 1724-5, dg. of John P., of Med., s. on a part of 
the homestead at M., had i. Elizabeth, Jan. 19, 1702-3 • n Tryphena 
June 12, '04 ; in. Mary, Apl. 13, '06; iv. Phebe, Sep. 5, '09 • v Me- 
hetabel, Sep. 5, '09; vi. Ebenezer, Jly. 5, '11 ; vn. Thankful, VJlh. 

24. 22. vin. Jeremiah, Hon., 1720, d. a. 86; ix. Moses, 1725. 

22. 24. Jeremiah, Hon., m. Mercy Clark, Dec. 22,1742, who. d. aged 93 d*. of 
Tim. C, of M., and had i. Lydia, 1743, m. Henry Ellis. ° 

83. 25. ii. Isaiah, m. Abigail Hill, r. Med. ; in. Mary, m. Francis Hammond. 

iv. Marcy, Dec. 16, 1755, d. Mar. 2, 1854, m. Abijah Richardson, M. D. ; 
v. Abigail, m. Moses Richardson, of Med. 

8. 26. Samuel, m. Experience Adams, dg. of Dea. Peter A., of Med., 2d, Sarah 
Phipps, grd. niece of Sir Wm. P. ; i. Abijah. 

ii. Samuel, 1720, m. Hannah Hill, from Douglas, and s. at Keene, N H 
35. 28. in. Timothy, 1722, d. 1802, m. Ruth Leland 
88. 29. iv. Nathan, 1725, s. in Franklin. 
85.? 35. v. John, 1728 ; vi. Simeon, 1730-1, s. in Frank. 

vii. Reuben, 1733 ; ym. Sarah, '35 ; ix. Mary, '36 ; x. Japhet, '38, s. 
in Holl. ; xi. Abijah, ^40, s. in Milfd., m. Hanh. Dix, '74, had 
i. Diana, '76, at H., ii. Warner, '78; in. Lydia, '84. 

28. 35. Timothy Daniels, w. Ruth Leland; i. Rachel, Apl. 29, 1754, m. Whitney 
Hill, of Holl., Aug. 5, '73, and d. 1850, having in '49, a good recollection 
of the past; n. Timothy, Dec. 21, '57, d. Sept. 7, '78; in. Benoni and 
Lona, Aug. 29, '60, both d. yg. ; iv. Martha, Sep. 12, '62, d. Nov. 13, 
1847, m. Joseph Cooledge, of S., '81 ; v. Isaac, Oct. 20, '65, d. yg. 
vi. Olive, Oct. 3, '68, d. Sep. 20, '72 or 5. 
36. vn. Joseph, Sep. 11, '70, m. Persis Mason, dg. of Abner M., of M., had 
i. Olive, Mar. 30, 1800, m. Amory Leland, and 2d, Col. Joseph Parks, 
of H. ; ii. Sylvia, Jly. 6, 1802, m. Amos Cutler Leland, ofH. 
in. Ruth, 1804, m. Nathan Grout, of S., had Alfred, A. M. 
iv. Timothy, Dea., Aug. 10, 1806, m. Emily Perry, 2d, Harriet 
M. Harding, r. H.; v. Phebe, Feb. 18, 1810, d. yg. ; vi. Persis, Apl. 
6, 1812, m. Elias Bullard, Esq., of H. 

9.. 38. Joseph m. Elizabeth Groce, 1725, r. Med., had 

I. Asa, Dea., 1726; m. Bathsheba Fairbanks, 2d, Lydia Daniels, had 

i. Asa, Dea., 1753, d. 1840, without children, leaving a legacy of over 
$8000 to the 1st chh. in Med. ; n. David, A. M., M. D., 1757, r. 
Danvers, the f. of Hon. Robert Daniels, of Salem ; in. Jesse, 1760,'m. 
Hanh. Holbrook, fr. Wrenth., r. Med., had 

i. Hanh. m. Elijah H. Pratt 2d, Zibeon Hooker; U.Mary; 
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iv. Bathsheba, 1760, m. Jed. Bullen of Med. ; v. Levi, d. a. 46, at 

Brookfield. 
n. Joseph, Cpt , 1735, m. Deborah , r. Med., had 

i. Joseph, 1757, m. Thankful Penniman, and had 
i. Calvin, 178G ; ir. Joseph, Nov. 19, '89; 

II. Lemuel, 1759, m. Tilly Penniman ; in. Israel, 1768, m. Anna Parker, 

2d, Lavina Daniels; iv. Noah, 1770, m. Abigail Allen, fr. Medfd. 
in. Daniel, 1743, perhaps m. Mary Atwood, and had in Holl., i. Elisha, Sep. 
22, 1770; n. Jesse, May '!'), '73, or these were the grd. sons of Robert D., 
iv. Jemima, m. AVm. Leland, No. 1. 

» 

2. 48. Samuel, m. Lydia Hill, 2d, Hanh. Gardner, and had in Holl., i. Moses, 

Dec. 18, '35; it. Lydia, Jly. 17, '39; in. Hanh., June 17, '41, m. Dea. 

James Morse, of Med. ; iv. Amariah, Sep. 27, '46 ; v. Sarah, who m. 

Tim. Force, Jan. 25, '58 ? ; vi. John, m. Miriam Perry, Feb. 4, '67, had 

Julitta, May 3, '67; Otfed, Dec. 27, '68; John, Jan. 14, '75; Perry, 

May 10, 76. 
vn. Experience, Oct. 6, 1748, by 2d w. ; vni. Addington, May 18, '51. 
ix. Peter, Oct. 27, '56 ; x. Lois, Ap. 6. '59. 

57. Japheth, pr. a grd. s. of Robert D., (No. 1.) m. Melatiah, and had at H. 
I. Cynthia, May 17, 1765; II. Osimus, Dec. 28, '68; III. Amariah, Nov. 
28, '70, m. Olive Rider, '94, r. Palmyra, Portage Co., O., had I. Vespatian, 
Nov. 14, '99, at H. ; iv. Sabra, Sep. 10, '72 ; v. Japheth, Aug 14, '77, m. 
Betsey Rider, 1800 ; vi. Melatiah, Nov. 2, '79. 

60. John, (not traceable, perhaps No. 30,) m. Abigail , and had 

i. Abigail, 1752, at Med. ; n. Zebulon, Aug. 24, 1758, at H. 

61. Asa, (do.) m. Mary Rider, '58, bad i. Ephraim, '58. 

62. Samuel, w. Elizabeth, had Elizth., '52; Hannah, '53; Elisha, Ap. 10, 
1755, at H. 



15. 63. Timothy, w. Ruth Death, had at'Sh., 

i. David, May 5, 1809, m. Sybel Hooker, r. S., had 

I. Lewis; II. Edward, and in. Edwin; iv. Henry; v. Mary Ann; 

vi. Alma Maria ; vn. Harriet ; vm. Daniel W. ; ix. Sarah Agnes. 
n. Moses, May 5, '09 ; in. Alvira, Aug. 19, '13, m. Geo. Cooledge. 
iv. Geo., Apl. 3, '18, m. Harriet Butler. 

67. Henry, grd. s. of Joseph, No. 4, m. Hannah Bullard, Dec. 31, 1733, r. on 
W. side of Black Swamp and was the most ancient man to whom the author 
ever listened. He had i. Abigail, 1734; n. Rachel, '38, m. Joseph Curtis, 
had Jeremiah E., f. of Jo., of Med. ; in. Henry, '40, m. Elizth. Harding, had 
i. Patience, '68, m. Silas Adams, of Med. ; n. Elizabeth, '70, m. 
Zabina Kingsbury ; m Sabin, '74, who m. Hanh. Ellice, and had 
at Med. Henry, 1799 ; Marinda, 1801 ; Cyrus, '03, (m. Louisa, had 
I. Hannah, 1829 ; n. Henry, m. '30) ; Harding; Elizabeth ; Ellice. 
iv. .lesse, 1741 ; v. Elijah, '45; vi. Jeremiah, '47, scalded to death '53. 
vn. Abigail, '51 ; vni. Hannah, '55. 

11. 75. Ezra, w. Martha Death ; I. Aaron, 1728--9, m. Keziah Holbrook, who 
had only Keziah, who m. Jona. Hill ; II. Moses, 1737, m. Abigail Adams, 
r. Med., had i. Abigail, 1768, m. Silas Richardson ; II. Sarah, '77, m. Israel 
10 



74 DAVIS, DAY, DEATH. 

Daniels, 2d, Ezra Richardson ; m. Amos, m. 1st, Sally Day, 2d, Anna 
Daniels, 3d, Sally Pierce, had Leonard, of Hartford, Ct, hy 1st w. 
Hiram, Rev., by 3d w., b. 1815 ; 

iv. Elias, 1775, m. Betsey Derby, r. Med. ; v. Obed, '78, m. Sarah 
Metcalf, r. Frank. ; vi. Ezra, '80, in. Esther Richardson, 2d, Mary 
Richardson, r. Med. ; vn. Moses, '82, m. Mary Harding, r. Warwick ; 
vm. Cate, '84, m. Michael Lovell, r. Med. ; ix. Olive, '87, m. Tho. 
Lawrence, r. Leominster. 

25. 83. Isaiah, m. Abigail Hill, dg. of John and Ruth Hill, had i. Julia, 1769, 
m. Nathan Fisk, of Hoi. ; II. Ursula, '71, m. Tisdell Puffer ; in. Tryphena, 
'73 ; iv. Abigail, '75, m. Moses Felt, of Med. ; v. Jeremiah ; vr. Rhoda, 
m. Timothy Fisk, M. D., of Hoi. 

30.? 85. John, m. Elizabeth Keith, 1753, and had at Holl. i. Rhoda, '54. 
86. ii. John, '50 ; in. James, 'Gl. 

29. 88. Nathan, m. Mary , had at Med. i. Nepthali, 1747 ; n. Nathan, '48. 

Zepbaniah, '50; iv. Silas, '52; v. Benoni, '55; vi. Adams, '57. 
vii. Seth, '60 ; vm. Mary, '61 ; ix. Silence, 'GO. 

Elisha Daniels, w. Phebe , had Hastings, Aug. 6, '99, at H. 

John D., w. Sarah , had Clark, June 16, '93, at H. 



Jesse D., w. Prude , had Luther, Jan. 17, '93, at H. 



ChS. Davis, s. of Eliakim D., of Rutland, m. Fanny Morse, fr. Natick, s. in 
S., 1825, had i. Angelina, m. Ouvra Taylor, and with him was murdered, 
Sep. 17, 1852; u. Angenette, (d.) ; in. Sarah E. ; iv. Geo. W. 



Nathan Day, w. Sarah, had i. Lydia, Oct. 30, 1790, at H. 



1. John Death, was received to Sherborn, Jan. 1, 1677-8, he having 
previously settled within the limits of Natick. He had by w. Mary 
8. 2. i. John, 2 Esq., Jan. 2, 1676--7, at Topsfield Barry, d. at S., Dec. 14, 1754, 
in his 78th year ; n. Hepsibath, June 5, 1680, at S., m, David How ; 
in. Lydia, Mar. 26, '82, m. Jona. Lamb, of Fram. ; iv. Samuel, 2 Sep. 12, 
'84 ; v. Ruth, Jly. 20, '88, m. Samuel How, Nov. 23, 1715. 
4. vi. Oliver, 2 ?d. Mar. 3, 1704-5, at Fram., m. Martha Fairbanks, 1797, who 
d. Apl. 3, '54, had i. Oliver, 3 '98 ; n. Caleb, Jan. 7, 1699-10, d. Mar. 
14, 1711 ; in. John, 3 May 30, 1702, m. Hanh. Morse, May 15, '29, had 

i. Jotham* May 13, '1730, at S., m. Marcy , had Benj.," 3 

Dec. 23, 1751, at Holl.; n. John* Ap. 3, '32; in. Martha, 
May 27, '38. 

2. 8. John, 2 Esq., m. Elizth. Barber, '98-9, pr. s. where Reuben Cuzzens lived. 

2d w. Waitstill , m. before 1714, 3d w. Mrs. Martha Perry, '50, had 

i. Elizabeth, Dec. 27, 1796; i£. John, 3 b. and d. 1710, at Fram. 
10. 9. ii. Henry, Sept. 22, 1714, by~2d w. at S., m. Rachel Leland; 

hi. Mary, Oct. 10, 1716, m. Daniel Leland, '37 ; iv. John, Dec. 4, '18, 



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d. Jly. 15, '21 ; v. Ruth, Apl. 20, '21, m. John Wesson, of Fram., '40. 
vi. Abigail, Oct. 8, 1723, m. Wm. Greenwood, of S., '45 ; vn. John, May 
27, '26, d. Ap. 29, J 797, aged 71, inherited the homestead in S., had John, 
d. unm. ; vm. Waitstill, Oct. 27, '28, in. Caleb Greenwood, '49. 
ix. Hepsebath, 1731, in. Moses Adams, of Sh., 51. 

9. 10. Henry, w. Rachel Leland, m. 1736, d. his wid. Sep. 14, '97, a. 81. He 
resided where the late Reuben Couzzens did, and had 
i. Benoni, Oct. 23, 1737, s. in Holl., m. and d. without issue. 
13. 12. ii. Henry, June 6, '41 ; in. Elizabeth, Sep. 24, '43, m. Ebenezer Fair- 
banks, '61 ; iv. John, June 27, '46, d. Feb. 1, '46-7 ; v. Rachel, May 8, 
'48, m. Moses Holbrook; vi. Mary, Ap. 13, '50, m. Tho. Brick, '70. 

12. 13. Henry, purchased of Jona. Hill and w. Esther, of Med., the farm at Death's 
Bridge, m. Ruth Thayer, and 2d, wid. Huldah Penniman, had at S. 
I. John, March 6, 1776, d. ab. 1850, w. Mehetabel Eames, who. d. 1833, 
r. Hoi. and Ashland, had i. Ezra, r. Fram., m. Catherine Hartshorn, and 

John, m. Mary Frost, 
ii. Tho., Mar. 26, '77, m. and s. in Tcmpleton, and rm. to Brimfield. 
in. Henry, Jly. 13, '78, d. at sea, unm. 

18. 17. iv. Ezra, Feb. 5, '80; v. Philena, Nov. 28, '81, m. Clough, r. 

Newton ; vi. Rachel, Mar. 18, '83, d. yg. ; vn. Ruth, Jly. 13, 1787, by 2d 
w., m. Tim. Daniels, r. S. ; vin. Rhene, April 7, 'i?9, m. Henry Ware, 
2d, Brayton Billiard ; ix. Leonard, Oct. 30, '91, s. in Sangerville, Me., has 
a family ; x. Mercy, Sep. 10, '93, m. Hadley, r. Mendon. 

17. 18. Ezra, inherited the homestead at Death's Bridge, m. Rebecca How, from N. 
boro', and had i. Henry, d. yg. ; ii. Chs. Austin How, Mar. 27, 1810, 
whose surname and that of his br. and their children was legally changed to 
How, in 1855, and the former ancient name has by a similar course become 
nearly or quite extinct in N. Eng. Mr. Chs. A. How inherits the homestead, 
and by w. Eliza Wetherbee had i. Elizabeth H, m. Wm. Morse, 1854, 
r. Brighton ; n. Chs. H. How, in. Frank Irving How ; iv. Albert Augus- 
tus Howe. 

in. Sarah H., m. Tho. Brickford ; iv. Almira R., m. Horace Carley, r. 
Cambridge ; v. Henry How, m. Hanh. Maria Phipps, fr. Hopk., r. S., has 

i. Caroline Maria How ; n. Henry )l aldo How. 
vi. Rebecca H., m. Sanford Drake, r. Hoi. ; vn. Ruthy Ann, m. Lorenzo 
Carley, r. S. 

19. Caleb Death, w. Abigail, had at S. i. Polly, Aug. 8, 1772; 
ii. Ebenr. Messenger, d. Nov. 8, 1780. 



1. Jona. Dewing, m. Tabitha Learned, Jan. 5, 1721, had at S. i. Daniel, 
Mar. 16, 1720-1 ; n. Keziah, Mar. 8, '28-9 ; in. Sarah, July 3, '26. 



Rev. Timothy Dickenson, b. June 25, 1761, ord. at H. 1789, d. Jly. 

6, 1813, at the height of his influence and usefulness, a model of ministerial 

dignity and consistency, and endowed with every Christian virtue. 

" Mr. Dickinson was born of respectable and pious parents, at Amherst. The traits 

of character which, more than any other, marked the opening period of his existence, 

were the mildness and amiableness of his natural disposition. Ho was also noted in 



76 DICKENSON. 

early childhood for a great fondness for literary pursuits. So that, ' although his 
constitution was naturally slender, and his health feeble and interrupted,' a very 
considerable portion of the hours, which were not employed in manual labor, were 
devoted to study. ' He lived with his parents, and labored upon a farm until six- 
teen years of age;' wben, beholding his country engaged in a common and dubious 
struggle for independence, the deep interest excited in his bosom for her welfare 
roused his youthful ardor, and would not suffer him to be dissuaded from espousing 
her cause, and enlisting, as a private soldier, in the militia. In this capacity he con- 
tinued to serve in the army about fifteen months. Upon leaving this post of suffer- 
ing and danger, his health having been enfeebled by the exposures and hardships to 
which he was unaccustomed, he commenced fitting for College, under the tuition of 
the Rev. Dr. Dwight, late President of Yale College, who was then engaged in the 
instruction of a private school at Northampton. ' It is believed, on good authority, 
that Mr. Dickinson was principally induced to seek a liberal education in consequence 
of his witnessing so much depravity and wickedness in the army. This depravity 
and licentiousness which he found to be more or less acted out by mankind generally, 
he felt determined to combat ; and that he might do it the more effectually, he 
sought the aid of a public education.' Having completed the preparatory course of 
study, he was admitted at the age of about eighteen, a member of Dartmouth Col- 
lege. During the first year of his collegiate life, the Institution and vicinity were 
visited with a 'special and remarkable revival of religion,' in which he became a 
hopeful subject of renewing grace ; and subsequently made a public profession of 
the religion of the gospel. ' While at College, Mr. Dickinson was diligent and 
persevering in the prosecution of his studies ; appeared to advantage at recitations 
and all the literary exhibitions of his class ; and acquired the reputation of a correct, 
classical scholar.' He grad. in 1785 ; and was immediately after appointed Pre- 
ceptor of Moore's Charity School, connected with the College. In the instruction of 
this school, he continued one year ; wben, for the more advantageous prosecution of 
his theological studies, he put himself under the private instruction of the Rev. Dr. 
Tappan, then minister of Newbury, Mass. — and afterwards Professor of Divinity in 
Harvard University. Previous to his settlement in this place, he preached at Exeter 
and Hopkinton in N. H., and in several vacant parishes in the northern part of this 
State. ' As a preacher,' says the discriminating Dr. Emmons in his funeral Ser- 
mon, 'he was plain, faithful, and affectionate. And as he firmly believed in those 
doctrines, which are usually denominated the doctrines of grace, he felt it his duty 
often, plainly and affectionately to state and illustrate them. The native and total 
depravity of sinners ; the necessity of regeneration by the special operations of the 
Holy Spirit ; the doctrine of personal election ; the necessity of disinterested and 
holy affections towards God and men, in order to become interested in the atonement 
of the Saviour ; the Deity of Christ, and the doctrine of a Trinity of persons in the 
Godhead, together with those doctrines, which naturally grow out of the preceding, 
are sentiments which he firmly belief ed, and which he considered as of the greatest 
importance. No considerations of popularity or self-interest could deter him from a 
plain and frequent exhibition of those truths which are so offensive to the carnal 
mind.' ' He was very apparently,' is the language of Dr. Emmons, a man of 
God, who exhibited the reality and beauty of religion in his private conversation, as 
well as in his more public and official conduct. He gave convincing evidence, that 
he loved those doctrines which he taught to others, and taught them in love to their 
souls. The whole tenor of his preaching plainly indicated, that he sought to please 
God, rather than men ; for he did not shun to exhibit the most essential, the most 
humiliating, and the most heart-searching truths, in terms too plain for any to mis- 
understand. He had a clear, strong, and pleasant voice, which enabled him to speak 
with peculiar propriety and energy ; and as he aimed to draw the attention of his 



dix. 77 

hearers to bis subject, rather than to himself, so be seldom failed of deeply impress- 
ing their hearts and consciences. He loved to converge upon religious subjects, and 
greatly excelled in private discourses with his people. lie was among the most 
zealous ministers and Christians to spread the gospel, and to extend the kingdom of 
Christ through the world.' * 

"Mr. Dickinson's ministry was attended with some peculiar and great trials. At 
one period of it, there was much uneasiness, animosity, and disturbance, which con- 
tinued, in a greater or less degree, through several years ; so that the parish twice 
refused to grant his salary. But in each of these instances the people were wise 
enough to discover their mistake, and rescind their votes. The origin and occasion 
of the difficulties which existed do not appear from any record either of the town, or 
the Church ; but arc commonly understood to be found in the offensiveness of the 
doctrines upon which he insisted. t They, however, resulted in the calling of a 
Council by the Church, June 4th, 1804; which advised to the dissolution of the 
pastoral connection subsisting between him and the people of his charge, in the 
August following, should not an amicable adjustment of difficulties previously take 
place \ Happily those difficulties were so far settled, that, on the 25th of the same 
month in which the Council sat, the parish passed a resolution in favor of the continu- 
ance of the connection. For about nine years subsequently, Mr. Dickinson continued, 
in peace and quietness, to exercise the office of a gospel minister in H., and, after a 
lingering and painful sickness, calmly and peacefully expired." [Fitch's Cent. Ser.] 
He m. Margaret Prentice, Nov. 26, 1789, dg. of Rev. Joshua P., his predecessor, 
a lady of great amiability, meekness and prudence, whose examples, through a long 
life, were irreproachable, and especially commendable to her sex and the wives of 
clergymen of any age or station. She d. in peace, ab. 1836. They had 
i. Nancy, Oct. 14, 1790, d. agd. ab. 18 ; 

ii. Joshua Prentice, A. M., M. D., Aug. 21, 1792, rs. at Bangor, Me. ; 
in. Tho., June 24, 1794, inherited the homestead, was P. M. and trader, a 
devoted Christian, and invaluable citizen, d. a. ab. 50, leaving only dgs. ; 
IV. Edwards, Apl. 22, '96, A. M., M. D., a respectable scholar, and unsfr 
amiable man, whose life was marked with unusual and painful vicissitudes, 
which wrouuht their designed effect of preparing him for the mansions of the 
blessed. He fell in the mornins: of his usefulness, leaving a son and dg. ; 

v. Irene, Dec. 28, '97, m. , and rs. Barre ; 

vi. John, Feb. 11, 1801, d. in infancy; vn. Esther, Oct. 2, 1803, rs. H. 



James Dix, by w. Mary, had at H., Benj. Alexr., Oct. 30, 1790. 

* Mr. Dickinson was one of the most zealous founders of the Massachusetts Missionary 
Society ; was repeatedly elected a member of its Board of Trustees; and in 1811 delivered its 
Anniversary Sermon, which was published. 

f If Mr. D. had only springled robin-shot in the aisles, instead of throwing bombs at the 
pews, he would have been to the opposition unexceptionable. But that he was right, and they 
wron?, was evident from confessions to him when on his death-bed. 

X The question submitted to the Council was simply, "In existing circumstances, is it duty, 
that my pastoral relation to this Church should be continued?" It is, perhaps, due to the 
character of Mr. Dickinson, that the following paragraph, extracted from its declared result, 
should be here inserted. " The Council are deeply affected witli the calamitous situ tion of this 
Church, and the divisions which subsist in this town. They tenderly reflect on the trying situa- 
tion in which the Pastor, a brother honored in the Churches, and affectionately respected by them- 
selves, is placed. The merits of the ('o?itroversy have not beeti sttbmitted to this Council. They, 
therefore, will not undertake to approve or condemn ; but recommend it, with great solicitude for 
the present comfort, and highest spiritual interests of the Pastor, the Church, and the People, 
that they respectively cultivate that unoffending and conciliating spirit ; that attachment to truth 
and virtue; and that love to one another, which reason so poicerfully dictates; and the gospel, 
under so many motives^ enjoins." 



78 DOAXE, DOWSE. 

Nathl. Doane, w. Elizabeth, had at S., Nancy, Aug. 7, 1768. 



1- Lodwick DOWSG was in Sherborn as early as 1683, and had a lot of 30 
acres assigned him, May 27, 1684. He did not long remain. No connexion 
has been discovered between him and the ancestors of those of this name, who 
now reside in S. He had at S., i. Mary, Sep. 8, 16S3 ; n. Stephen, Mar. 
4, '8G ; in. Martha, Jly. 18, '88 ; iv. Samuel, Apl. 29, '95. 

4. Eleazer Dowse, a leather-dresser, came to S. from Charlestown, immediately 
after the destruction of that town in 1775. He is presumed to have been a 
descendant of Lawrence D., by w. Margery, who had Benj., b. Jly. 4, 1656, 
at C, who m. Mary Huin, at Roxb., Apl. 7. 1680, and who enjoyed the 
peculiar esteem and confidence of some of the most eminent and excellent 
men of his day, in the colony. Eleazer Dowse, according to tradition, was a 
man of natural refinement and much moral worth. He m. Eunice Dana, 
and 2d, Mehitabel Brentnall, who d. Mar. 6, 1809, a. 78. He d. June 25, 
1807, a. 80. He had 
8. 5. i. Eleazer, who d. Jan. 12, 1826, a. 75, m. Mary Bullard ; 
II. Eunice, who d. 1838, a. 82, m. Henry Morse of Nat. ; 
in. Benj., who died without issue, at Holl. 
11. 6. iv. Joseph, Dea., b. of 1st. w., m. Deb. Perry; 

v. John, d. urn. at Roxb. ; 
15. 7. VI. James, by 2d w., m. Rebecca Leland ; 

vii. Tho., who rs. um. at Cambridge, devoted to science. 



5. 8. Eleazer, s. as a leather-dresser, on the plain where Ebenr. Mann rs., served 
as a soldier in the Revolution, and was great'y beloved in the army, and 
much esteemed as a citizen and neighbor. He m. Mary Bullard, who sur- 
vived him 17 yrs., d. Nov. 16, 1843, a. 88. They had i. Dana, Dec. 26, 
1785, m. Mary Sanderson, s. and d. in Brighton, the f. of Doct. D. of 
Harvard ; n. Polly, Aug. 26, '87, m. Ebenr. Mann, Feb. 8, 1810 ; 
in. Nancy, June 7, '89, m. Jesse Cousins, of Hoi. 
19. 10. iv. Samuel, June 28, '97, d. Sep. 14, 1844. 

6. 11. Joseph, Dea., who followed the trade of his father, was a very discreet, 

amiable man, and devoted Christian ; often visited and conversed with the 
sick and dying; m. Deborah Perry, Sep. 4, 1783, who d. Sep. 30, 1822, a. 
63, dg. of Moses P., by w. Susanna Childs, and grd. dg. of Nathl. P., by w. 

Abigl. ■ , and gr. grd. dg. of John P. of S., 1665, by w. Bethia Morse, 3 

dg. of Danl. a and grd. dg. of Saml. M. 1 He d. Mar. 29, 1839, a. 79, had 

18. 12. i. Benj., Jly. 22, 1784, m. Thankful Chamberlain ; n. Eunice, June 20, 

'87, m. Joseph Crafts, of Watertown, Feb. 14, 1813 ; in. Betsey, Mar. 12, 
'90, m. Jno. Ryan, of Charlton, Apl. 20, 1812. 

19. 13. iv. Joseph, Jan. 4, '94, m. Martha Chamberlain, b. Mar. 4, 1800, r. S. ; 

v. Nathl., Jly. 26, 1801, d. Aug. 9, '01. 

20. 14. vi. Nathl., Sep. 7, 1802, m. Hephzibah Daniels, 2d, Mary A. Clark. 

7. 15. James, who d. in middle life, m. Rebecca Leland, Dec. 24, 1791, dg. of Adam 

L., by w. Prudence Leland, dg. of Caleb L., by w. Judith Morse. He had 

16. i. Adam, Nov. 9, 1792, m. Maria Lundy, r. N. Y. ; n. Rebecca, Ap. 4, 
1796, m. Amory Babcock of S. 

17. in. Tho., bap. June 8, 1802, d. 1830, at New York, m. Henrietta Knapp ; 
iv. Eliza, bap. June 8, 1802, m. Fred. D. Valentine, r. S. Natick. 




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12. 18. Bcnj., a manufacturer of whips, rs. S., ra. Thankful Chamberlain, b. Mar. 

6, 1792, dg. of Elisha C, of Keene, N. H., originally fr. Newton, by w. 
Susanna Brown, from Brighton, and had 

I. Edmund, Rev.; A. M., b. Sept. 17, 1813, united with tho chh. at S., in 
his youth, prepared for Col. under the instruction of Bev. Amos Clark, grad. 
at Amherst Col, 183G, studied Theology with Bev. Dr. Ide, of Med., was 
ord. Oct. 10, '38, pastor of the same chh., in which he had been brought 
up, and for 17 years has continued their vigilant and successful minister. 
He in. Elizabeth 11. Leland, dg. of Dea. Daniel L , 1838, who d. June 16, 
'42, and 2d, Elizabeth Bowditcb, Dec. 18, 1843, and had 

i. Elizabeth R. L., June 12, '42 ; n. Priscilla, B , (&.)• in Deborah 

Dowse; iv. Sarah, (d.) ; v. William Bradford. 

n. Wm., Sept. 2, '15, m. 1st, , 2d, E. Coolidge, rs. S., has two chd. ; 

in. Joseph Perry, Aug. 15, '20, d. ab. '46; 

iv. Deborah, Jan. 28, '24, m. Jones Leland, had Sarah; 

v. Benj., Ap. 1, '30, rs. at Weymouth, unm. 

10. 19. Samuel s. as a merchant and manufacturer, at Oxford, m. Casendiana, 
Shumway, June 3, 1824, and had i. Mary Bullard, Ap. 1, '25, m. Oct. 7, 
'45, Henry G. Davis, r. Pittsfield, had I. Elizabeth D., Oct. 10, '46; 
ii. Mary G., Oct. 11, '48 ; in. a son, b. Apl. 19, and d. May 10, '5l! 
ii. Elizabeth Diana, Dec 2, '28, m. Nov. 2, '53, Jabez L. Peck, of P. 
in. Tho., May 10, '33, rs. unm. at Chicago, 111. 
iv. Martha S., May 10, '40, rs. with her mother at Oxford. 

13. 19. Joseph, w. Mar ha Chamberlain, m. June 12, 1819, r. Sh., had i. Martha 

Ann, June 27, 1820, d. Dec. 22, '42, unm. ; n. Joseph, Apl. 10, '22, m. 
Elizabeth Bullard ; in. Bebecca, Dec. 25, '25, d. Jan. 28, '26. 
iv. Rebecca P., Feb. 22, '29; v. Chs. D., Feb. 13, '33; vi. Emily A 
May 26, '36. 

14. 20. Nathaniel, w. Hephzibah Daniels, b. Nov. 28, 1798, m. Dec. 4, 1823, d. 

June 8, 1837, 2d w. Mary A. Clark, b. Sep. 30, 1809, m. Ap. 12, 1838, 
r. a manufacturer of shoes on the paternal home, in S., had i. Lucy D., 
Nov. 27, 1824 ; n. Eunice Maria, June 14, '29, d. May 15, '53, m. Chs! 




Edward Durant, by w. Mary, had i. Edward, Ap. 19, 1766, at S.; n. Tho., 
June 5, '68, at liol. ; in. Jackson, Mar. 20, '70 ; iv. Samuel, Mar. 13 
'72.; v. Mary, Dec. 8, '74. 



1. Tho. EameS, 1 from Ded., s. in the N. part of S., now Fram., was reed, an 
inhabitant of S., Jan. 4, 1674—5, was selectman, '78, and one of a commit- 
tee to build the first meeting house, for which land was granted him. The 
first planters appear to have been very anxious to retain him in their commu- 
nity. His house was burnt by Indians, Feb. 1, '76-7, his wife and several 
children murdered and others taken captive. [Barry.] He d. Jan. 15, 
'80. He had i. John, 2 b. at Ded., Oct. 6, 1642, m. Mary -», — , d. Apl. 
3, '81, and 2d, Elizabeth Eames, '82, had i. Margaret, 1666, d. yg. at 



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EAMES. 



Watertown ; ir. Anna, m. 



Flagg; m. Martha, Feh. 28, '78, m. 



Smith ; iv. Priscilla, Feb. 2, '82, at S. ; v. Elizabeth, Apl. 11, '85. 

vi. John, Jan. 10, '87 ; vn. The, Jly. 22, '94 ; vin. Mary, Jan. 4, '96-7 ; 

ix. Henry, Apl. 28, '98 ; x. Abigail, Mar. 9, 1706. 
ir. Nathaniel, 2 br. of John above, and b. Dee. 30, 16G8, m. Anna, had 

I. Lydia, Dec. 10, 1694, m. Benj. Muzzy, of Lex. ; n. Rebecca, Jly. 25, 

'97, in. Daniel Bigelow ; in. Win., m. Sarah Perry, 1733, of Hoi., had 
i. Sarah, '34 ; n. Hanh., '37, d. '37. 
in. Samuel," br. of John, b. Jan. 15, '64-5, had by w. Patience Twitchell, at S., 

I. Gershom, Dec. 29, 1698, d. Dec. 9, 1762, m. Susanna Whitney, dg. 

of Jona. W., of S., who d. '39. He m. 2d, Mary (Hunt) Leland, 1741, 

(wid. of Isaac L.) and bad i. Susanna, Feb. 16, 1725, ra. Joseph Cozzens. 

ii. Patience, May 5, '28 ; in. Gershom, June 20, '30 ; vi. Mjtttha, Jly. 

2 0, '32, m. Tho. Drorv : v. Lois, Aug. 28, '34; vi. Lydia, Aug. 19, '36; 

vn. Mary, Ap. 22, '39, d. May 6, '39. 
13. 11. vin. Reuben, Lt., Apl. 10, 1743, m. Elizabeth Whipple. 
17. 12. ix. Ezra, Capt., d. 1833, a. 87, m. Sarah Jones, 1768; x. Mary, '47-8. 



11. 13. Reuben, Lt., s. on the farm lately owned by Jesse Cozzens, in S. part of 
Ashland, m. Elizabeth Whipple, d. Feb. 6, 1768, 2d, Jane Kendall, of Sh., 
Sep., '68, and had i. Elizabeth, Apl. 7, 1766; n. Sarah, Oct. 25, '69, m. 
Isaac Foster, '89; in. Martha, Jan. 10, '71 ; iv. Hannah, Jan. 24, '74. 
v. Warren, Ap. 7, '76, d. Jan. 12, '81 ; vi. Wm., Apl. 21, '78. 
vn. Eli, Apl. 15, '82; vin. Joseph, Mar. 22, '87, m. Lois (cousins) 
Cousins, and rs. in Ashland. 



12. 17. Ezra, Capt., s. in the North part of II., now Ashland, m. Sarah Jones, 

1768, and 2d, Twitchell, and had i. Simeon, Oct. 10, 1768. 

ii. Gershom, Dec. 25, '69; in. Mary, Aug. 29, '71 ; iv. Isaac, Jly. 4, 
'73 ; v. John, May 4, '76 ; vi. Martin, June 14, '78 ; vn. Hester, Apl, 
10, '80 ; vin. Suca, Nov. 21, '85 ; ix. Julia, Mar. 3, '88. 



23. Daniel, 3 b. Mar. 20, 1711-12, at Fram., the s. of Nathl., 2 and grd. s. of 
Tho., (No. 1), m. Silence Leland, Sept. 21, 1738, and had 
i. Daniel, Mar. 28, 1740, m. Mary Cutler, '61 ; n. Hopestill, d. yg. ; 
in. Hopestill, June 28, '42, d. Ap. 5, 1821, m. Mary Leland, dg. of David 
L., of H, '68, and had in Hopk. and Holl. 

i. David, 5 Dec. 5, '69, d. Jly. 14, 1843, m. Mercy Morse, dg. of Ezek., 
Med., and had 

i. Aaron, 6 Dec. 10, '91, ; n. Camilla, Feb. 19, 1800, d. June 1, 1S06 ; 
in. Appleton, Jan. 4, 1803, d. Jan. 3, '44, unm. ; iv. David, June 
20, '08, m. Dickenson, r. Hopk., has Abner Morse r and David/ 
v. Dorinda, Oct, 25, '10, m. Elihu P. Warfield, (d.), has 2 sons. 
ti. Anna, 5 m. Rowland Jacobs, of Tho'town, Me. ; n^. Wm., m. Sally 
Parker; in. John, May 2, 1779, m. Anna Whiting; iv. Mary, Jan. 7, 
'84, m. Martin Eames ; v. Peter, 5 Aug. 11, '83, m. Martha Jones, of 
Hopk. ; vi. Lavinia, Nov. 9, '85, m. Jonah Holbrook, of S. ; vn. Hope- 
still, May 7, '88, d. Aug. 5, '91 ; vin. Nathan, Feb. 18, '92, m. 
Cynthia Hayward ; 
iv. Lydia, 1746, d. June 5, 1814, m. Joshua Underwood of II. 
v. Anna, m. Col. John Gleason, of Fram. ; vi. Wm. in. Lois Fisk, and 2d, 

, and d. in Boylston. 

35. vn. Aaron, Cpt., 1753, d. Feb. 11, 1827, m. Sarah Leland, dg. of David L., 




irwra iiirigmiEra, jlmlmlj. 



EDWARD, EMERSON, ESTERBROOK, ESTY, EVENS, EVERETT. 81 

of H., and 2d, wid. Polly Fisk, 1826. Had r. Aaron, Nov. 12, 1784, d. 
yg. He left $10,000 to the 1st Chh. and Parish in Hoi., which has not yet 
accomplished their ruin. 



36. Daniel, jun., pr. s. of Daniel, (No. 24), m. Molly Wight, dg. of Doct. 
Aaron W., of Med., and had in H. r. Kitteridge, June 30, 1789. 
it. Daniel, Dec. 26, '90 ; in. Mima, June 23, '92. 
He afterwards rem. to Black R., N. Y. 

39. Moses Eamcs, w. Elizabeth, had at H. i. Moses, Jan. 5, 1787 ; II. Jona., 
Jan. 29, '89 ; in. Betsey, Aug. 8, '91 j iv. Ruth, Aug. 8, '93 ; v. Clary, 
Nov. 11, '95 ; vi. Reuben, Oct. 3, '97. 

43. Jesse Eames, w. Anna, had i. Amara. Nov. 29, 1795, at H. ; n. Anna, 
Mar. 20, '98. 



Abigail, w. of Jona. Eames, died in Hoi., Apl. 20, 1742. 



Daniel Edward, w. Deborah, had Betsey, Dec. 23, 71, at H. 



Daniel Emerson, d. in H, 1765, owned the land near, and pr. r. where late 
Nathl. Johnson, Esq., lived. James Emerson, m. Jerusha Newton, Dec. 
2 1, 1784. 

Elijah Esty, w. Lydia, had at S. i. Reuben, Sep. 2, 1763, s. at Watertown. 

ii. Elijah, May 16, '66, s. at Natick; in. Mehetabel, 1770, m, Asa Clark, 
iv. Ebenr., m. and r. Lincoln; v. Sarah, 1777, d. unm.; vi. Rhoda, d. yg. 

Elijah EsterbrOOk, w. Hanh. , had at S. i. Hannah, Sep. 29, 1734. 

II. Joseph, Aug. 10, '36: in. Samuel, Nov. 27, '38: iv. Aaron, Mar. 
20. '40-1. 



Jona. Evens, w. Elizabeth, had Win., Oct 24, 1757, at H. 



Oliver Everett, A. M. and M. D., b. at Dedh., a lineal descendant of Richard 
Evered, of D., 1637, grad. 1821 at Brown Univ., and subsequently received 
M. D. at Dart. Col. He s. in S. ab. 1824, where he spent bis days, and 
d. aged ab. 50, worn out by professional labors. To do any justice to his 
character as a man, a citizen, or a physician, would exceed my ability and 
limits. Suffice it to say, his worth became inefFaceably stamped upon the minds 
and hearts of the entire community, and no man of his generation ever fell in 
S. whose death was so universally and deeply lamented. His character 
seems to call for a more extended obituary than has appeared ; and I cannot 
but hope that his successor, or some cotemporary practitioner, will supply it 
for embodiment with the history of the physicians of Midd. Co. It is due 
to merit, and might be a valuable legacy to medical students, at least in 
guarding them against self sacrifice, and pointing out the way to an honor- 
able and enduring reputation. He m. Maria Sanger, dg. of Joseph S., of 
S., by w. Sally Phips, and had i. Edward H. (d.) ; n. Rufus S., m. Rosilla 
Gr. Biekford ; in. Helen M. ; iv. Mary C. ; v. Abby S. : vi. Francis Oliver. 
11 



82 FAIRBANKS. 

1. Richard Fairbanks took the freeman's oath, May 14, 1634, and the 
name occurs on the records of Boston, 1638-51. Several of the early set- 
tlers of Dcdham were of this name, viz. : 



2. John Fairbank, senr., whose dg. Mary m. Michael Metcalf, Apl. 12, 1644. 

3. Jona., Mr., who appears to have been the cousin of Geo. of Somerby, in 
the Vicarage of Halifax, Yorkshire, who willed to him as such, 20s., 1650. 
Mr. Jona F.'s wife was Deborah, and children, i. Deborah, b. 3 (4), 1654 ; 
ii. Grace, '56; in. Sarah, '58; iv. Edward, 10 (11), '60; v. David, 28 
(11), '62; vi. Mary, 1667; vn. A. Jona. pr. his son took the freeman's 
oath, May 15, 1690. Mr. Jona. F. d. Dec. 5, 1668. His widow, Deb., d. 
Sep. 7, 1705. 

4. John Fairbank, who d. Nov. 13, 1684, and whose w. Sarah, the mother of 
his children, d. 26 (9), 1G83. He had at Dedham, i. Joshua, 26 (3), 
1642 ; ii. John, 7 (12), 1643, who m. Hanh. and had John, 1677, at D., 
rm. Wrenth; in. Sarah, 9 (10), '45; iv. Jona., 10 (9), '48, (a. Jona. 
d. 1661-2) ; v. Mary, '50 ; vi. Martha, '50, d. '50 ; vn. Joseph, 10 
(3), '56, took the freeman's oath, May 8, 1678; (another Joseph, of Ded. 
took do., Feb. 13, 1683-4) ; vm. Benj. 17 (12), '61, who ra. Mary, and 
had Benj. 1695, at D. 

5. Jonas Fairbank, early of Essex Co., who, not being worth £200, was fined 
for wearing great boots. 

6. George Fairbank, pr. brother of the above Jonas, John and Jona., had £5 
willed to him, May 28, 1650, by Geo. F., clothier, of Somerby, Yorkshire, 
resided in Ded. until about 1657, when he removed, and s. in the S. part of 
Sherborn, now-Med,, having purchased of Robt. Kainc, or his executors, a 
part of the grant made to him, 1649. Here he signed petitions for S., 
1662 and '74, was selectman, 1678, drew land in 1681, and seems to have 

been an orderly and esteemed citizen. He m. Mary , and died Jan. 

10, 1682. His wid. d. ab. 1703. 

i. Mary, 10 (9), 1647; 
15. 10. ii. George, 26 (3), '50 ; 

in. Samuel, 28 (8), '52, d. Nov. 20, 1676; 
18. 12. iv. Eliezer, 8 (4), '55; 

v. Jonas, 23 (12), '56, at Ded., d. Nov. 28, 1676 ; 
20. 14. vi. Jona., May 1, '62, recorded at Medfd., and d. Dec. 18, 1719; 

vn. Margaret, June 27, '64, record, at Do. 



10. 15. George inherited the homestead in the S. part of S., drew lands in S., and 
in 1715 and '30 he drew 100 acres in Doug., m. Rachel, who d. May 12, 

1678 ; and 2d, Susanna, and 3d, Sarah , in 1686 or '87, and had 

I. Rachel, Sep. 29, 1672 ; n. Marie, 5 (1), 1675 ; in. Susanna, Mar. 24, 
1680, by 2d w. ; iv. Susanna, Mar. 17, 1682 ; v. Dorotha, Nov. 6, 1683 ; 
vi. Margaret, Jan. 5, 1685 ; vn. Jonas, Feb. 15, 1687-8, d. Nov. 10, '90, 
by 3d w. ; vm. Sarah, Nov. 16, 1690 ; 

27. 16. ix. George, Oct. 2, 1694 ; x. John, Oct. 9, 1697. 

12. 18. Eleazer drew a home lot in 1679 of 18 acres on the main St. in S., adjoin- 
ing Peters' Hill, was selectman, 1703. He m. Martha, dg. of Capt. Samuel 
Bullard, and had 



FAIRBANKS. 83 

i. Mary, Oct. 31, 1678; n. Martha, Jan. 22, 1080, rn. Oliver Death, Apl. 
17, '97, who d. Mar. 3, 1704--5 ; 2d, Ebenr. Lelatid, jun., of S., Jan. 10, 
1708; in. Lydia, Mar. 8, 1682 ; iv. Margaret, Dec. 9, 1684, d. 1698 ; v. 
Mercy, Oct. 18, 1688, m. Joshua Underwood, 1707-8 ; 
32. 19. vi. Eleazer, Dec. 29, 1690, " d. Sep. 19, 1741, in his 51st y." 

14. 20. Jona. was the first physician who settled in Sh. He is supposed to have 
lived N. of Bogestow Pond, in the old stone house, and was drowned by 
falling through the ice, in crossing from Medfield in the night. Pie was an 
important man in his day ; was selectman, 1695-'98, '99, 1700. and '01; 
Town Clerk, 1699, 1700, and '01. He drew 107?, acres in Doug, in 1715, 

and in 1730, 54 acres were assigned to his estate. He m. Sarah , who 

d. Jly. 9, 1713. 

39. 21. i George, Apl. 14, 1685. 

44. 22. ii. Jona., Mar. 21, 1689, d. Nov. 26, 1754; m. Comfort, Oct. 30, '90; 
iv. Joseph, Apl. 25, '92. 

53. 25. v. Samuel, Feb. 27, '93 ; vi. Jonas, June 9, '97. 

16. 27. George, who s. in Med. on part of the old homestead, m. Sarah , had 

i. John, d. Dec. 14, 1714; n. Phebe, May 16, '16, m. Abraham Cousins, 
of Hoi., 1759; in. John, Feb. 5, '18-19; 

58. 29. iv. Jonas, Oct. 20, '20 ; 

60. 30. v. George, Dec. 12, '22, d. Sep. 29, 1795 ; vi. " Barshab," Oct. 7, '24, 
m. Dea. Asa Daniels, senr. of Med. ; vn. Silence, Feb. 26, '27, m. Elisha 
Barber; vm. Elijah, Apl. 29, '29, d. Oct. 1, '46 ; ix. David, Jly. 10, '31, 
d. Oct. 8, '46 ; x. John, Oct. 27, '33, was insane, d. urn. ; xi. Joseph, 
Dec. 8, '35, m. Abigail Coolidge, and d. without issue; xn. Sarah, b. 1737, 
d. Oct. 13, '37 ; xin. Elizabeth, Dec. 29, '40, d. Aug. 20, '44. 

19. 32. Eleazer, Capt., m. Martha Bullard, r. S., had, i. Eleazer, Jly. 23, 1716, 

rm. Plainfield, Ct. m. Prudence , and had Prudence, May 20, '47, at Sh. ; 

ii. Joseph, Sep. 17, '18, rm. Halifax, N. S. ; in. Deborah, Nov. 12, '19, 
m. Joseph Twitchell, Esq.; iv. Moses, Aug. 14, '21 ; v. Sarah, Sep. 25, 
'22 ; vi. Martha, Aug. 2, '24, m. Benj. Mason ; 2d, John Phips, '43, and 
rm. to Brookfield ; vn. Abel, Nov. 28, '26 ; vm. Abigail, Aug. 18, '28 ; 
ix. David, Feb. 2, '30-31 ; x. Abigl., May 5, '32. 

92. 38. xi. Ebenezer, June 1, '34 ; xn. Mary, m. Capt. Saml. Sanger, and d. 
without issue. 



21. 39. George, m. Lydia Gay, of Wrenth, Dec. 24, 1707 ; 2d, Rachel Drury ; 3d, 

Sarah , who d. Jan. 26, 1748, a. 62, settled in H, N. W. part, and 

had, i. Geo., Dec. 2, 1708, m. Deborah Sawin, 1735, and had Reuben of 
H., June 1, '39; n. Lydia, Nov. 13, 1710. 

69. 41. in. Jabesh, Oct. 4, 1713; iv. Sarah, May 26, '16; v. Joseph, May 1, 
'20, by w. Kachel ; vi. Rachel, Dec. 31, '21, d. Jan. 6, 1729 ; vn. 
Abigail, Oct. 10, '23, d. Jan. 14, '29; vm. Submit, Sept. 18, '29, in 
Holl, m. Daniel Fairbank ; ix. Mary, Sep. 28, '30, m. Micha Morse, Nov. 
5, '52. 

89. 43. x. Drury, May 1, '33, d. June 19, 1786; xi. Rachel, Nov. 14, '35, d. 
Dec. 9, '44. 



22. 44. Jona., Doct., m. Lydia Holbrook ; 2d, Hanh. Cooledge, b. Jan. 8, 1692, 
m. June 2, 1726, r. S., had, i. Jona., Feb. 18, 1714; n. Benj., Aug. 16, 



84 FAIRBANKS. 

'15, d. young; in. Mary, Feb, 5, '16-17; it. Lydia, Oct. 1, '18; v. 
Comfort, Feb. 8, '10-20, a dg. ; vi. Moses, Mar. 1, '22. 
73. 49. vii. Daniel, Nov. 5, '23 ; vm. Josbua, Apl. 5, '27, by 2d w. 
88. 51. ix. John, Aug. 12. '29; x. Hannab, Jly. 3, '31 ; xi. Grace, June 16, 
'34; xii. Abner, Mar. 28, '36, m. Elizabeth Hill, Jly. 5, 1759, who d. 
Feb. 2, '64, had, 

1 John, d. Dec. 3, '63 ; 2 Sarah, Apl. 30, 1762 ; 3 Elizabeth, Feb. 2, 
'64, at S. 



25. 53. Samuel, m. Susanna , r. S., had, 1. Jonas, Sep. 19, 1718; 11. 

Samuel, Jly. 21, '20: ill. Rebecca, Apl. 26, '23; iv. Sarah, Oct. 19, '24; 
v. Benj., Sep. 10, '26 ; vi. Jemima, Aug. 29, '29 ; vii. Levi, Feb. 6, '33-4. 



29. 58. Jonas, w. Experience Leland, b. June 21, 1725, m. 1745, r. Med., had, 

I. Miriam, Mar. 9, 1745--6, d. Oct. 21, '79, the grd. mother of Rev. Daniel 
Wight, of Scituate ; n. Deborah, June, 2, '47, m. Job Patridge, of Bell., 
Nov. 29, '69, and was the mother of Rev. Moses P. ; in. Sarah, Jan. 

4, '48-9 ; iv. Mary, June 4, '51. ; v. Elijah, Mar. 21, '53, d. urn. in the 
army ; vi. Experience, Apl. 19, '55, m. Jabez Whitney, of Med. ; vn. 
Hopestill, Mar. 4, '57 ; vm. Rufus, Dec. 8, '58, perisned at sea ; ix. 
Joseph, Feb. 22, '61, d. Jan. 5, 1835, m. Mary, dg. of Judge Stephen 
Metcalf, of Bell, and settled in Bell. 

30. 60. George was bowed in person, m. Jerusha , who d. Jan. 9, '96, and 

inherited the ancient seat of the family in Med. 
77. 61. 1. Abijah, Jan. 21, 1745-6, m. Mary Clark, rm. Me. 
79. 62. 11. Joel, Jan. 26, '47 ; in. Elizabeth, Aug. 11, '49. 

86. 63. iv. George, Doct., Jly. 12, '51, r. in Wrenth. 

87. 65. v. Silas, Sep. 29, '53. 

83. 66. vi. Jotham, Apl. 6, '57 ; vn. Asahel, June 2, '61 ; vm. Adam, Dec. 1, '63. 

41. 69. Jabez, w. Susanna Corning, m. Nov. 23, 1738, r. H., had 1. Lydia, Sep. 20, 
1739; 11. Joseph, June 3, '41; 111/ Joshua, Aug. 2, '43; iv. Abigail, 
Jan. 11, '47 ; v. Susanna, June 20, '52 ; vi. Jerusha, Apl. 21, 57. 
vn. George, Apl. 12, '62. 

49. 73. Daniel, w. Submit Fairbank, r. H. ; 1. Rachel, May 13, 1748, m. Jethro 
Peters, '69; 11. Comfort, Jly. 4, '50; in. George, Jly. 30, '52, d. Jly. 18, 
'59 ; iv, Jona., Mar. 29, '55 ; v. Drury, Aug. 6, '57 ; vi. Submit, Nov. 

5, '59. 

61. 77. Abijah, w. Mary Clark, r. Med. ; 1. Olive, Sep. 5, 1769, m. Patridge, 

rm. Me. ; n. Mary, June 20, '73, d. Apl. 12, '78 ; in. Asa, Jan. 2, '79. 

62. 79. Joel, w. Mary, r. Med.; 1. David, Jan. 30, 1774; n. Alexander, May 

24 ; '72, at Oxford; in. Cynthia, Aug. 2, '76; iv. Joel, May 8, '78. 

66. 83. Jotham, w. Beulah Daniels, r. Med. ; 1. Jotham, Oct. 19, 1778; 

II. Leonard, rs. Med. 



63. 86. George, Doct., w. Cally Boyden, r. Med; 1. Cally, Sep. 8, 1779; 
11. Lucy, Oct. 3, '86 ; in. Olive, Sep. 1, '93. 






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65. 87. Silas, w. Mary Day, r. on the ancient Fairbank's homestead, S. W. of 
Bogistow Pond, where Jason Daniels resides and had at Medway ; 
l Tolly, Mar. 14, '85, m. Moses Pond; it. Charles, Sep. 30, '87, r. W. 
Med. ; in. Silas, in. Mille Plimpton, and was the last occupant by the name 
of F. of the ancient homestead ; iv. James ; v. Betsey, m. Baruch Perry ; 
vi. Nancy, m. Moses Pond, of W. Med. ; vn. Charlotte, r. in Med., unm. 

51. 88. John, m. Hannah, i. Martha, Jly. 28, 1755; n. Levi, Sep. 28, '57; 
in. Hannah, July 18, '59. 

43. 89. Drury, m. Deborah Leland, of Hoi., r. H. and had 

91. 90. i. John, Mar. 15, 1759, m. Mary Whiting; n. Perley, Aug. 22, '61, m. 
Tabitha Littlefield, dg. of John Stedman, and s. in Wardsbury, Vt. 
in. Joseph, Mar. 4, '64; iv. Rhoda, Jan. 7, '66, m. Eli Perry, Mar. 10, 
'S5 ; v. Elijah, June 30, '70 ; vi. Drury, Rev., Oct. 13, '72, m. Lucretia 
Rockwood, May 25, 1800, s. at Plymouth, N. H., had Johy Milton, Aman- 
da, Mary, Timothy R., Lucretia, Drury ; vn. Deborah, June 7, '75, m. Caleb 
Perry; vm. Mary, Feb. 7, '81. 

90. 91. John, w. Mary Whiting, from Med., m. June 24, 1784, r. Holl. ; 

i. Martha, March 26, 1785 ; n. John, Sep. 14, '86; m. Nathan, Nov. 27, 
'88 ; iv. Calvin, Oct. 2, '91 ; v. Drury, Mar. 31, '96 ; vi. Otis, Jan. 25, '94, 

38. 92. Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth; i. Asa, Mar. 4, 1762; n. Joseph, Nov. 1, '63; 
in. Betty, Aug. 23, '66; iv. Ebenezer, Dec. 15, '68; v. Henry, Dec. 
31, '70, bp., '71 ; vi. Thaddeus, Mar. 13, '73; vn. Elizabeth, Jan. 3, '75. 
at H. ; vm. Levi, Aug. 24, 1778, at S. 

Reuben, of Holl., m. Mary Grant, at H. 



Asa FaSSett, w. Margaret, had at S., Benj., Sep. 7, 1707. 

■ 1 m*m i 

Lewis Fisher, w. Hanh., had at H., Hephzebah Albe, Mar. 24, '99. 



Simeon Fisher, w. Hephzibah, had at H. i. Lewis, Feb. 15, 1771. 



1. Nathaniel Fisk, b. June 9, 1678, at Watertown, the s. of Nathl. and grd. 
s. of Nathan F., of W., 1642, free May 10, '43, and selectman '73, (see 
Bond) came to S. and m. Jan. 16, 1706, Hannah Adams, dg. of Moses A. 
He had i. Nathaniel, Nov. 11, 1706, at S. ; n. Asa, b. at W., Feb. 22, 1708, 
m. Jan. 30, 1735, Lois Leland, dg. of Dea. Tim. L., and had at H. 

i. Lydia, Nov. 12, '38, m. Burbank, d. without issue; 

n. Huldah, Mar. 13, '41, m. Caleb Claflin, of Hopk. ; in. Abel, Mar. 

14, '44, d. in Hopk., aged 80, had no chd. ; iv. Asa, Sep. 3, '46, m. 

Mercy Jones, dg.of Eli J., had Lydia, '72 ; Hanh., '73 ; Elijah, '74 ; 

Asa, '79 ; Aaron and Mary, '80 ; v. Aaron, March 20, '49, d. aged 

88, s. in Chesterfield ; vi. Lois, May 6, '51, m. Amariah Marsh, and d. 

at Pawtucket, aged above 90 ; vn. Abner, Mar. 27, '54, m. Grout, 

r. N. Y., had Fanny, '78 ; Betsey, '83 ; Anna, '86 ; Lois, '90, at H. 
in. Hanh., Sept. 9, 1710; iv. Moses, Jan. 29, '13, d. in Natick, m. Mehe- 
tabel; v. Lydia, Apl. 24, '15; vi. Lydia, Oct. 5, '18. 



86 }•• [ s k . 

7. John Fisk, the Br. of Nathl. (No. 1,) and grd. s. of Nathan, m. Lydia 
Adams, Jly. 31, 170G, dg. of Moses A., and had at H. 
11. 8. i. John, May 8, 1709, m. Abigail (Leland) Babcock.of Sh. 

II. Lydia, Jan. 14, '11-12 ; ill. Isaac, Aug. 24, '14; it. Lydia, Aug. 4, 
'20 ; v. Peter, Mar. 12, '22-3; vr. Abigail, Jly. 24, '27, d. '27. 
vn. Nathl, Mar. 31, '30, d. '56. 

8. 11. John, m. Abigail Leland, wid. of Ebenr. Babcock, and seems to have lived 
on or near the farm of her late husbaud at W. Sherborn, and had 
I. David, Apl. 16, 1732, m. Sarah Bullard, dg. of John Bullard of E. 
Med., and had i. John, Mar. 15, 1760, m. Abigail Albee, r. II., 
ii. Nathan, May 3, 1761, m. Jemima Leland, '86, 2d, Julia Daniels, 

and had Jemima, '88 ; Isaiah Daniels, '91 ; and Horatio, '94; 
in. David, Apl. 19, '63, m. Hannah Eames; 

iv. Levi, Feb. 23, '(55, m. Jemima Underwood, had at II. ; i. Lewis, 
- Feb. 25, '93 ; n. Sally, Sep. 2, '94 ; in. Martin, Oct. 23, '96 ; 
iv. Anna, Dec. 24, '98. 

v. Nathaniel, March 9, '67, m. Allen ; vi. Amos, Nov. 23, '69, 

d. Nov. 6, '76 ; vn. Sally, Dec. 17, '71, m. Simeon Newton, r. Tem- 
pleton; vm. Gad, Jan. 31, '74, d. Oct. 26, '76; ix. Keren, Jly. 
24, '76, d. Sep. 17, '78. 
28. 17. x. Timothy, A. M., M. D., Nov. 3, '78; xi. Aner, Sept. 20, '80, m. 
Martha Fairbanks ; 

ii. Hannah, Jan. 24, 1733-4, m. Fairbanks, 2d, Caleb Hill. 

24. 19. in. Amos, Mar. 5, '35-6, m. Anne Briant. 

23. 20. iv. John, Mar. 16, '37-8, m. Sarah Hill ; v. Joel, Apl. 22, '40, in. Ruth 

Reed, and s. in Camb'dge. 
26. 22. vi. Jonas, Dec. 4, '42, m. Mary Hill ; vn. Martha, Jan. 5, '48-9, d. yg. 



20. 23. John, s. \ m. E. of school house No. 6, in S., m. Abigail, and had 

I. Abigail, June 29, 1766, m. Cpt. Samuel Learned; n. Sarah, Jly. 8, '72, 
m. Tapley Wyeth, A. M., M. D., of S. ; in. Ede, m. Aaron Whitney, of S ; 
iv. Elizabeth, Feb. 3, '76, m. Lewis Bullard ; v. John, Dec. 2, '78, [a 
John had Horace, Jly. 11,1800?]; vi. Sukey, Feb. 26, '81 ; vn. Sally, 
Jan. 19, '83. 

19. 24. Amos, w. Anne Briant, had at S. i. Peggy, Jly. 16, 1771 ; n. Hannah, 
Nov. 4, '73 ; in. Polly, Nov. 17, '75; iv. John H„ Oct. 23, '77. 

22. 26. Jonas, m. Mary Hill, s. where James Hill is , and had at S., i. Jonas, Feb. 
4, '79; ii. Mary, Nov. 11, '81. 

27. Samuel,? w. Abigail, had at S., i. Samuel, Feb. 8, 1762 ; n. Hepsibath, Mar. 
18, '66. 



17. 28. Timothy Fisk, A. M., M. D., and M. M. S. S., grad. 1801, at II. IL, sub- 
sequently studied medicine, s. in his native town, and was her first regularly 
educated physician. His course from the first was marked with that modesty 
and gentlemanly bearing which cultivation insures and which are equally 
removed from the swaggering pretensions of empiricism and the low and vile 
arts of rude and jealous rivalry. His skill was soon appreciated and his 
conduct rewarded in a wide practice. This he retained, to the great advan- 
tage of the public, for a series of years, seldom attained by a laborious phy- 
sician. Ho has long held a high reputation abroad ; shared largely in the 



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confidence of the faculty ; ever maintained the strictest regard for moral vir- 
tue; and he cannot fail of being long remembered as the beloved physician. 
He has taken a deep interest in all the benevolent enterprises of his time, 
is an Honorary member of the Am. Board of C. for F. Missions; a life 
member of the A. Bible Society ; do. of the Home Miss. Soc. ; do. of the 
Am. For. and Chr. Union ; and a welcome communicant in the Orthodox 
Congl. Chh. He has sons, i. Frederick, n. Ferdinand. 



Dea. Oliver Fisk, born Aug. 8, 1786, son of Dea. Samuel F., of Weston, by 
w. Abigail Murdock from Newton, and grd. son of Nathan F., of W., by 
w. Mary Fisk, dg. of Dea. Jona. F., of Sud., by w. Abigail Reed, and gr. 
grd. s. of Dea. Nathan F., of Watertown, (representative 1727, '28, '29, 
'32, and much confided in by his townsmen) by w. Sarah Cooledge, and gr. 

gr. grd. s. of Lt. Nathan F., of W., by w. Elizabeth , and gr. gr. gr. 

grd. s. of Nathan P., admitted freeman 1043, and selectman of W., 1673. 
(See Bond) Dea. Oliver F. purchased the place on which he now rs. of 
Moses Chamberlain, s. in S., 1814, m. Abigail Park, and 2d, Elizabeth 
Park; had i. Mary, in. James A. Cogswell, r. Brighton; II. Samuel, m. 
Mary Ann Bowditch, r. lloxb. 



Rev. Jailies Pitch 1 , b. Dec. 24. 1622, at Borking, Essex Co , England, came 
to New Eng., 1638, with his brother Tho., having already made good pro- 
ficiency in the acquisition of Latin and Greek. He spent 7 years after his arrival 
under the tuition of Rev. Messrs. Hooker & Stone, in preparing for the ministry. 
He d. at Lebanon, Nov., 1702. His w. was Abigail Whitfield, dg. of Rev. Henry 
W., of Guilford, by whom he had James Fitch 2 , b. Aug., 1649, d. 1727, who s. at 
Norwich and was one of the brave defenders of the colonies in 1675-6 ; appointed 
Capt. in 1680, and Maj. in 1686; chosen a member of the Council of Con., 1683, 
and continued to be elected until 1708. He was, in i690, among the first planters 
of Canterbury; one of the first donors of Yale Col., giving in 4701, 637 acres in 
Killingly, and all the glass and nails for the Col. edifice. He had much influence 
in procuring her charter. [Hinman.J He m. for a 2d wife Alice (Bradford) 
Adams, May, 1686, the wid. of Rev. Wm. A., 2d minister of Dedh., and dg. of 
Maj. Wm. Bradford, by wife Alice Richards, and grd. dau. of Gov. Bradford, by w. 
Alice Southworth, by whom he had only Jabez,' 3 b. 1703. Jabez s. at Canterbury, 
m. Lydia Gale, 1722, held the offices of Capt., Col., Esq., and Judge of Probate, 
was a man of superior talents, devoted piety, and extensive influence. He d. 1784, 
aged 81. He was the father of Col. Jabez, 4 b. May 23, 1729, at Newent, Ct., and d. 
at Sheldon, Vt., Dec. 19, 1806. He m. Lydia Huntington, Aug. 22, 1754, dau. of 
Dea. Ebenezer H., of Norwich, Ct. He was a physician of eminence, had many 
med. students ; and was the father of 

i. Jabez, 5 who was 12 years U. S. Marshall for Dis. of Vt. ; 
ii. Chauncey, 5 M. D., the father of Dr. S. S. Fitch, of New York ; 
6. 3. Ebenezer, 5 D. D., b. Sep. 26, 1756, at Canterbury, d. Mar. 31, 1833 ; 
and of five daus., 5 who m. Professional men of Col. education. 

3. 6. Ebenezer, 5 D. D., grad. at Yale Col., 1777, in which instit. he was five 
years a tutor under the presidency of the learned Dr. Stiles. In 1793, hav- 
ing previously visited Europe, he was inaugurated the first Pres. of Williams 
Col., and officiated until 1815. In 1800 he reed. D. D. from Harv. Univ. 

•' Dr. Fitch possessed a mind of a high order ; and for uniformity of deportment, 



88 FITCH 



consistency of character, ardor of piety, kindness of feeling, diligence and fidel ty m 
discharging the various duties to which he was called, had but few superiors. [Key. 
C Durfee.] Subsequently to his resignation of the presidency of W. Col., he was iz 
vears castor of the Con-1. Chh. at W. Bloomfield, N. Y., where he became one ot 
S»552^totoWpii«»- of Auburne Theo Sen; and where Ins ashes 
repose without any such mark of respect as the gratitude of the Trustees and alumni 
of W. Col. must prompt them ere long to show. He m. Mary (Backus) Coggswel, 
d». of Ebenezer B., of Windham, a lady distinguished for intelligence, .amiability 
and piety, who d. at Cleaveland, O., Nov. 21, 1834. They had, besides other 
children, Charles Fitcb, G Rev., A. M., b. June 26, 1799. # 

Rev. Charles Fitch entered Williams Col. at the age of 15, gr a dm 1819, entered 
the Theo. Sem. at Princeton, the same year, where he grad 1821, having previously 
received licensure from the Presbytery of N. Bruns., before the age of 21. lhe tost 
of his labors were in the then frontier and sparsely settled Cos. of Erie and Catter- 
aucms, N. Y., in the employ of the Young Men's Miss. Soc, New York. Aug. ZZ, 
1822, he was ordained and installed by Cooperstown Presbytery over the 1 res u. 
Chh., of Cherry Valley, formerly the charge of Rev. Dr. Nott and then embracing 
men of high attainments and standing, from whom no call could have been obtained 
for any youn<r man of common address, acquirements or promise. Un this occasion 
Rev. John Smith, of C, preached, and his venerable father gave the charge ; and 
the solemnities must have reminded more than one of the consecration ot Cotton 
Mather, or that of Jona. Mayhew, receiving the charge and mantle of his aposto lie 
father. Here he continued for a longer period than is common in JN . 1 . in ^-? ^ 
obtained a dismission, and being urged by several distinguished dsr&mentTom 
Mass., to accept letters of introduction to a vacant congregation in one ot the lar ei 
towns in -this state, he came to Boston. Here, being informed that the vacan cy was 
filled, he engaged as city missionary, and supplied, for some weeks, the po lp oi 
Charter st. Chapel. In the mean time he was invited to H., where he was installed, 
Jan., 1826, Rev. Dr. Wisner, of Boston, preaching on the occasion Here he con- 
tinued 6 years, laboring with much fidelity j and though no S^^ 1 ™//,"" 
ligion ensued, yet for the period, his labors seemed to have been blessed beyond those 
of any of his predecessors, and long will he be held here in grateful remembrance. 
While at H. he published a centennial discourse from which copious extracts have 
been taken in the preparation of this work. 

In 1832 he resigned his charge in II. ; became a stated supply for the two yeais 
ensuing, to the Presb. Chh. at Batavia, N. Y. In 1834 he removed to jB uffalo, 
opened a High School, but was, with his family, visited the nest year, by that dread- 
fil malady, the ophthalmia. In 1837, having but partially recovered and hoping 
that a change of climate might prove remedial, he removed to irenton, IN. J., to 
assist Mr. James Hamilton in T. Academy. In 1838 he removed to Columbus, O., 
and for the two following years performed the duties of chaplain in the Uhio Peniten- 
tiary. In 1840 he was appointed travelling agent for the American Bible Society ; 
and so successful were his labors that he was induced to continue them for nearly 
8 years, during which he travelled in Oh., Kt., and Ind., as nearly as could be 
calculated, a distance of once and a half the circumference ofthe globe his family 
during the time remaining at C, and Rising Sun, Ind. In 1850 he s. at Mt. Vernon 
Ind., and was installed by the Presbytery of Vincennes, Ap. 14, 51, as the nrst 
pastor of the Presbyterian Chh. in that place where he now resides. The many 
changes through which Mr. F. has passed imply no want of stability of purpose or 
lack of any ministerial qualification. They are the natural fruits of the spirit ot 
the age, and the character and condition of the chhs. His history is that of a large 
proportion of the most talented and devoted ministers in the Middle and Western 
States. He m., May 15. 1822, Sarah Hamilton, dg. of J. H., of Princeton, a gent. 



FORCE, FORISTALL, FOSTER. 89 

of Scotch descent, who was Lt. and Commissary in the army of the Revolution, an 
Elder in the Presb. Chh., and a prominent citizen of P. It is related on good 
authority that while the army was quartered at P., Lt. H. and lady opened their house 
for week-day worship ; during which, on their door-steps, General Washington 
and lady were known to have seated themselves as listeners, unwilling to dis- 
turb the assembled congregation by taking higher seats. Mrs. F. had '3 sisters, m. 
to clergymen, and 1 to a lawyer, and two brothers, both graduates of N. H., one of 
whom was Prof, of Math, and Nat. Phil, in Nash. Univ., Tenn, where he and three 
of her sisters d. with cholera, in June, 1849. Mr. F. had 

i. Sarah Maria, June 4, 1826, at Holliston, m. Nov. 30, '51, Peter S. 

Dusonchet, of Mt. Vernon, Ind., has 2 child. 

ii. Charles Ebenezer H., Feb. 11, '28, at H., rs. an engineer in Calif. 

in. James Henry, Feb. 3, 1833, rs. at Mt. Vernon. 



Timothy Force, m. Sarah Daniels, Mar. 2, 1758, had at H., i. Amariah, June 
11, '58, m. Sarah Marshall, and had Sally M., Jly. 1, '89, and by w. Kezia, 
Wm., June 15, '93; n. Abigail, Sep. 28, '60, m. Joel Morse, Mar. 6, 
1783 ; in. Margaret, Jly. 12, '62. 



1 John Poristall, w. Elizabeth , had at H., i. Mary, Jly. 5, 1730, m. 

Jona. Gibson, Nov. 25, '48 ; n. Ezra, Sep. 14, '36. 

3. John, w. Thankful Jones, m., Feb. 6, 1756, had at H., i. Joseph, Mar. 
23, '58 ; ii. John, Apl. 6, '62 ; in. Mary, June 20, '64 ; iv. Mary, Feb. 
20, '68 ? m. Jona. Goddard, May 26, '83 ; v. Thankful, Sep. 2, '6- ; vr. 
Hannah, Dec. 14, .'71 ; vn. Amariah, Sep. 6, '74. 



1. Isaac Poster was rated in S. for 4 polls, 1721, and drew land in Doug., 
1730, built the house in which Hon. Elihu Cutler, senr., resides, and a mill, 
40 rods above the site of Cutler's, sold both to Hcmminway. He also built 
a mill l£m. N. of it, and had, by w. Abiel, at S., i. Abiel, Apl.' 4, 1721 ; 
ii. Abigail, Oct. 1, '24. 

2. Benj. Foster, w. Sarah , had at H., i. Judith, Mar. 20, 1728 ; n. 

Ezekiel,Nov. 13, '31 ; in. Elizabeth, Jan. 14, '36 ; iv. Benj., Sep. 8, '37. 

3. Jacob Foster, w., Mary Sheffield , had, i. Mary, Nov. 3, 1729, m. 

Moses Twitchell; n. Jacob, Mar. 10, '32; in. Wm., Apl. 29, '34; iv. 
Sheffield, Oct. 10, '38, d. Sep. 23, '44 ; v. Hannah, May 14, '40 or '47 ; 
vi. Isaac, Sep. 27, '41, d. Dec. 30, '41; vn. Isaac, Mar. 18, '43-4; vin. 
Abigail, Feb. 5, '49-50 ; ix. Rebecca, Dec. 7, '53. 

4. Jona. Foster, d. Dec. 19, '53, m. Mary Golding, June 13* 1744, and had, 
i. John, Apl. 10, 1745, d. Nov. 22, '45; n. Mary, Jan. 9, '46-7; in. 
Sarah, Feb. 7, '48-9, d. Dec. 28, '53 ; iv. Beulah, Aug. 16, '53. 

5. Stephen Foster, who m. Rachel Pike, May 10, 1764, had i. Isaac, Jan. 
26, '65 ; ii. Stephen, June 7, '72. 

6. Capt. Isaac Foster, m. Sarah Eames, Dec. 24, 1789, had, i. Simeon, Jly. 
19, 1790 ; ii. Anna, May 25, '95; in. Emelia, Aug. 18, '97. 

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90 FRANCIS, FROST, GARDNER, GASSETT, GIBBS, GLEASON. 

Georee H FraBCiS, from Newton, Keeper of the Winthrop House in H., 
fnceablirir,.' Susan R. Crancb, who d. 1843; and 2d Electa M. 
Parker, bad, I. Caroline, (d.) ; n. Susan A., (d.) ; in. Geo. A.; iv. 

Elizabeth Maria. 

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Joseph FrOSt, from Charlestown, to S., had, 

5. if i. Jona., born pr. at Charlestown ; n. Joseph Frost, jun., m. Deborah, had 
'at S., I. John," Jan. 3, 1754. 

2 5. Jona., w. Martha Leland, dg. of Jona. L., were dismissed from the cb.li. in 
S to the chh. in New Marlboro,' had at S., i. Hannah, Apl. 9, 1761 ; n. 
Joseph, Mar. 10, '.63 ; in. Joseph, Feb. 7, '65 ; iv. Benj , Apl. 6 '67 ; v. 
Martha, June 5, '69 ;'vi. Elijah, Sep. 6, '71 ; vn. Asa, Jly. 22, 74. 

6. Peter Frost, w. Sarah , had, Benj. Edes, Jly. 6, 1781, at H. 



1. Joshua Gardner, w. Sarah, had, i. Caleb, May 2, 1749, at S. 

2. Addington Gardner, Br. of Josh., and pr. descended from a niece of,. Hon. 
Isaac Addington, Assistant Sec, and sup., Judge, Mass., m. — — Allin, d. 

Mar. 31, 1789, a. 90, sister of Rev. Allin, of Brookline, came to 

Sherborn about 1730, was selectman, '53, and resided in the S. W. part of 
the town, where. Horatio G. now rs. He had, . 

I. Aaron, Capt., Apl. 1, 1741, at B., m. Azubah Partridge, fr. Med. in- 
herited the homestead in S„ was selectman, 1788, and had, i. Stephen 
Partridge, Nov. 24, '66 ; n. Sarah, Jan. 8, '69 j m. Aaron, bap. Jly. 
14, '71 : iv. James Allen, Aug. 20, '74; v. Jona., Jly. 27, 80 ; vi. 
Horatio, Mar. 18, '85, m. Patty Ware, Jan. 19, 1811, and had, 
i. Delia, m. Alfred Leland ; n. Parmelia W., d. um ; in. Mary 
G„m. Saml. Small, of Portland; iv. Horatio W., m. Harriot A. 
Fisk ; v. Agzine Minerva, May 19, 1834, d. um., Apl. 8, 53. 
n. Joshua, who d. in S. _ _ ' 

. m. Addington, d. June 24, 1797, w., Mary, had, at S., Molle, Nov. 3 
'58, m Townsend; Betty, Apl. 13, '62, m. Amos Badcock, Oct. 

iv. Peter, Sep. 15, 1735, d. um. in the last French war. 
v. Caleb, Feb. 16^1732-3, at S., d. June 21, '77, at S. ; vi. Elizabeth, 
Mar. 9, 1737-8. 

Archelaus Gassett, s. of Elish G., of Hopk. was b. Aug. 19, 1804, s t in 

H., '36, m. Caroline Eames, Apl: 7, '36, and has Geo. W. ; Lizza C. ; John 
E. ; Lucilla G.; Otis W. ; Mary A. 



Joseph Gibbs, w. Elizabeth, had, at H, i. Bethiah, Aug. 10, 1762; n. 
Abigail, Dec. 30, '64. _ 

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1. ThO. GleaSOn. had land assigned him in S., 1682, m., 1st, Sarah -— ; 

2dw., Mary , r. N. part of S., had, 'i. Mary, June 19, 1680 ; n. Iho., 

Feb. 26, 1690-7, by w. Mary; ni. Richar^l, Jan. 31, '98-9; iv. Jonas, 



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Nov. 6, 1700, v. Elijah, Oct. 18, '02; vi. Moses, Dec. 22, '04; vn. 
Uriah, Dec. 28, '06 ; vm. Mary, Feb. 19, '08-9. 

2. Isaac Gleason, w. Deborah, had, at S., I. Isaac, May 17, 1706 ; n. 
Prudence, Oct. 3, '08. 

3. John Gleason, w. Abigail, had Ebenr., Sep. 1, 1703. 



Wm. Godard, s. of Wm., of Watertown,- (Bond, p. 237), m. Leah 
Fisher, was rated at Sherborn for the Indian title, 1686, had a home lot 
assigned him, 13 (3), 1679, of 19 acres, on the Plain where Mrs. Jas. 
Bigelow resides. His wid. Leah drew land at Doug., 1715; had at S., 
i. Elizabeth, Aug. 23, 1687 ; n. Wm., Aug.. 18, '89, d. 1703; in. Sarah, 
Nov. 24, '93 ; iv. Abigail, Dec. 2, '96, d. Mar. 6, 1716-17; m. Saml. 
Williams. 

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2. JollR Golden, Capt., a man of wealth, and herculean size and strength, 
purchased Winthrop's grant of 600 acres, bounding the N. and E. sides of 
Winthrop's Lake, to which, by purchase, and the division of common lands, he 
made large additions on the W., extending nearly, or quite, to the cedar 
swamp. He s. in Si ab. 1705, built a large and elegant house on the S. E. 
side of the hill, N. E. of the Lake, from which he and family, by alarms of 
Indians in the dead of night, were repeatedly driven to the garrison that 
stood near John Leland, Esq.'s, in S. He was early ,a«d through the rest of 
his life, treated with great respect, and his memory long reverenced in H. 
During her first 25 years he was her " principal inhabitant," and public ser- 
vant. A tradition among his descendants exists that he was b. in Eng., and 
had been a mariner. Several circumstances, however, favor the belief that 
he was the son of Peter Goulding, senr., and more probably b. in Bos. 
He d. Jan. 19, 1750-1, m. Abigail Curtis, pr. of Roxb., who d. Jan. 16, 
1766 ; and had at S., now H. 
i. John, Sep. 21, 1707, died in infancy, in Sherb., now Holl. 

4. 3. n. Curtis, Aug. 3, '10, cl. Mar. 25, '74, m. Zipporah, dg. of Capt. Joseph 
Ware, by w. Hanh.Wood, dg. of Eleazer Wood, by w. Dorotha, pr. Babcock,' 
and grd. dg. of Nicholas Wood, the first planter of Sherborn, by w. Mary, 
pr. Williams, and eldest dg. of Dea. Robt. W. of Roxbury. 
in. John, Aug. 21, '13, d. an aged bachelor at the Homestead ; 
iv. Peter, May 12, '15, d. June 29, '42, urn. ; v.' Abigail, Aug. 18, '17, m. 
Jona. Eames, Feb. 18, '41-2; vi. Mary, Jly. 27, '20, m. Jona. Foster/ 

June 13, '44 ; vn. James , d. Dec. 27, '53, m. Bethia Plimpton}- May 

23, '50, had" Abigail, Apl. 14, '53, m. Rev. Alexr. Thayer, Aug. 18, 573, 
then of Paxton, inherited and s. on the homestead, had i. John G., A. M.>; 
n. Alexander, M. D., r. Mend., and 3 dgs., one of' whom in. Lem. 
Adams, and s. on the N. part of the homestead. 

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3. 4. Curtis, w. Zipporah, b. Nov. 22,12, m. Apl. 30, .'43, d. De*c. 21, '93, 
i. Mary, Oct. 21, '45, m. Capt. Henry Leland, Apl. 15, '90, no chd. 

8. 5. ii. Joseph, Jly. 13, '47, m. Keziah, Parker, Sep. 23, '73 ; in. Hannah, 
June 24, '49, m. Aaron Rider, rm. to-'N: Y. ; iv. Zipporah, Jan. 10, '50-l,_ 
m. Jona. Bacon, of Nat. ; 
13. 6. v. John, Oct. 30, '52, d. "181», m. Elizabeth Twitchell, r. S. 
16. 7. vi. Eleazer, Apl. 30, '57, d. Aug- 13, '26, m. Jemima Bacon,JTunc 28, '81. 



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GOODHU, GOOK1N. 



5. 8. Joseph, w. Keziah Parker, t. H., and rm. to Eaton, N. Y., had, i. Julia, 

Jly. 25, 74 ; n. Curtis, Aug. 10, 76 ; in. Hannah, June 12, 78 ; 

iv. Persis, Apl. 30, '80 ; v. Timothy, Dec. 16, '82 : vi. Luther, Apl. 18, 

'85 ; vii. Otis, Jly. 14, '90. 

6. 13. John, Capt., w., Elizabeth Twitchell, m. May 23, 76, d. Feb. 21, 1847. 

i. Elizabeth, Mar. 27, 77, d. yg.; n. Matilda, Feb. 4, 79, bp. at her 
father's house, (sick) Oct. 4, 1801, d. Oct. 5, '01. 
19. 14. in. John, Maj., Apl. 2, '81, m. Betsey Bigelow. 

15. iv. Dalton, Esq., Oct. 19, '90, was early in life a teacher; has long acted 
as surveyor, draftsman, and justice ; served S. 7 yrs. as selectman, 7 do. as 
t. clerk and treasr. ; was a member of the convention in 1853 to amend the 
State constitution, and representative 1854. For ab. 20 yrs. he has com- 
monly acted as moderator of town and parish meetings, and devoted much 
time freely to the service of the public. He m. Martha Ware, dg. of Henry 
W., who died Jly. 7, 1849, had i. Elizabeth, Apl. 29, 1830; n. Matilda, 
Jan. 2, '32, m. Jas.W. Spinney, r. S. ; in. Joseph Ware, Apl. 12, '35. 

7. 16. Eleazer, w. Jemima Bacon, dg. of Oliver B., of Nat., r. N. and S., had, 
24. 17. i. Zillah, June 10, '82, d. Jly. 2, '49, m. June 9, '02, Daniel Wight of N. 

ii. Mary, Aug. 28, '84, d. June 11, 1815, m., Nov. 17, 1806, Calvin San- 
ger, jun., of S. 
22. 18. in. Curtis, Capt. Jan. 6, '87, m. Nancy Breck, May 13, '27, r. Sh., had 
Eleazer, Oct. 14, '28 ; Mary, Nov. 29, '30, m. Joseph W. Bullard. 
iv. Ede, Mar. 27, '95. d. Dec. 25, '02. 



14. 19. John, Maj., m. Betsey Bigelow, May, 27, 1807, occupies the N. E. divi- 
sion of Parker's grant. ; has served S. 10 ys. as selectman, and by the culti- 
vation of choice fruit trees, contributed much to increase her staple ; had 
i. John Adams, Apl. 2, 1808, r. um. at S. ; n. Sumner Gore, Apl. 2, '09, 
m. Martha (Burr) Cutler, r. Natick ; in. Oren, May 10, '11, d. yg. : 
iv. Henry, Nov. 25, '13, m, Emeline Edwards, r. Dover; v. Oren, Jan. 
26, '16, m. Ellen Holbrook, and d., leaving a son. 

17. 24. Zillah, hus. Daniel Wight, r. at Natick, had i. Eleazer Goulding, Dec. 
16, 1803, m. Phebe Carter, r. N. ; n. Ede Goulding, Sep. 6, '05, m. Wil- 
lard Childs, of N. ; in. Daniel, Rev., A. M., Sep. 18, '08, gd. Har. U., 
'37, and And. Theo. Sem., '40 ; ord. at Scituate, Sep. 28, '42, m. Lucy 
Flint, Sep. 26, '42, d. Aug. 5, '46 ; 2d, Julia Russell, m. Sep. 7, '47, 
d. Aug. 8, '49 ; 3d, Mary Anna, dg. of Rev. Jonas Perkins, of Brain- 
tree, m. Apl. 28, '51, d. Oct. 26, '53, had, i. Lucy Ellen, b. Jly. 25, 
'43 ; ii. Danl P., Oct. 26, d. 27, '53. 
iv. Miriam F.. Aug. 3, '11, m. James J. Sawin, of Nat., Apl. 9, '34; 
v. Mary, May 26, '14, d. June 21, '15; vi. Willard Amory, Apl. 21, '16, 
m. Lucy B. Morse, Nov. 30, '41, r. N. ; vn. Mary Matilda, Oct. 3, '18, r. 
Nat. ; vin. Eleanor Curtis, June 27, '21, m. Geo. Howe, Nov. 30, '43. 



Wm. Goodhu, w., Marcy, had Wm., Sep. 29, 1747, at H. 



Rev. Daniel Gookin, s. of Maj. Gen. G., of Cambdg., grad. J.669, at H. 
Col. red. A. M., 1673 ; was chosen fellow of H. C, 73, became assistant to the 
apostle Elliot, in the Indian Mission at Natick, who, in a letter to Hon. Robert 



(xOULD. 93 

Boyle, dated Apl. 22, 1G84, says of him, " He is a pious and learned young man, 
about thirty-three years old, hath been eight years a fellow of the College ; he hath 
taught and trained up two classes of young scholars unto their commencement ; he is 
a man, whose abilities are above exception, though not above envy. His father, with 
his inclination, advised him to Sherborn. 

" Mr. Gooking holdeth a lecture in Natick Meeting-house once a month, which 
many English, especially of Sherborn, do frequent. He first preaches in English to 
the English audience, and then the same matter is delivered to the Indians, by an in- 
terpreter, whom, with much pains, Mr. Gooking had fore-prepared." 

In April, 1681, " The inhabitants of Sherborn being desirous (if God permit) to 
have one amongst us, to break the bread of life to us and ours, and, especially, the 
Rev. Mr. Daniel Gooking," applied to him " to be the settled minister of Sher- 
born." He was not ordained until March 20, 1685. 

Judge Sewall " went to ye Gathering of ye cbh., at Sherborn, and ordaining Mr. 
Daniel Gooking their Pastor." He says "but sis brethren — and 3 of the names 
Mors. — Mr. Wilson, [of Medfield,] Mr. Adams, [of Dedh.,] and Mr. Nathaniel 
Gooking, of Cambridge, managed the work." Mr. Nathl. Gooking ye younger, in- 
troduced ye Elder, a happy type of ye calling of ye Jews. 

Mr. Torrey [Weym.], Brinsmade [Dorchester], Fisk [Braintree], Esterbrooks 
[Lexington], Man [Wrenth.], Moody [Bos.], Hubbard (alias Hobart,) Neh. [New- 
ton], Sherman [Watertown], VVoodrop, or Woodruff, [Lancaster], Rawson [Mend.], 
Wilson, jr., [Medfield] — these, and Fellows of the College. Only Major Gen,, and 
self, of the Magistrates. 

Mr. G. made his will, June 12, 1706, and d. Jan. 8, 1717-18, in his 68th yr. 
The following obituary, pr. fr. his colleague (Mr. Baker), dated Jan. 9, 1717-18, 
is taken from the Boston News Letter : — 

" The Rev. Mr. Daniel Gooking, the first pastor of this Church, died yesterday, in 
the 08th year of his age. He was the eldest son of Honorable Daniel Gooking, Esq., 
a good scholar and solid Divine ; was many years a fellow of Harvard College, and a 
Tutor. From his ordination, he continued our minister about 34 years, being dili- 
gent in his study, tender of his flock, and exemplary in his life. The vicinity of 
Natick gave him the opportunity of preaching lectures to the Indians there, and, 
although by great pain and indisposition of body, he was taken off from his work, 
for some considerable time, (about 7 years), he died lamented." 

He m. Elizabeth Quincey ; and 2d, Bethiah Collicut, Jly. 21, 1092. 

i. Daniel, Jly. 7, 1082 ; n. Mary, Oct. 10, '80, m. Tho. Pain, of Newcastle, 

N H., JuneO, 1712; 

in. Edmund, Mar. 31, '88, m. Sarah , had at S., Elizabeth, Nov. 

23, 1710; Mary, Mar. 1, '18-19, and Daniel, Mar. 11, '20-1; 
iv. Elizabeth, May 20, '90 ; v. Bethia, Oct. 7, '93, d. Mar. 1, '94; 
vi. Nathaniel, June 5, '95, d. Aug. 9, '95 ; 

vn. Richard, Jly. 12, '90, m. Feb. 19, 1716-17, Margaret Morse, had 
Bethiah, Jan. 14, '17-18; Hanh., Dec. 24, '22; Daniel, Jan. 13, 
'25-6, and Richard also, Jan. 13, '25-6. 
The descendants of Rev. Mr. G. have been traced by Mr. Thornton, of Bos., 
to Ded., Haverhill, and Claremount, N. II., Rutland, Vt., and Ohio. 



1. Benjamin Gould, w. Elizabeth, had, at II., i. Daniel, Jan 10, 
1737-8 ; ii. John, Mar. 12, '45-6. 

2. Paul Gould, m. Christian Hill, Dec. 20. 1770, d. Aug. 10, '70; 2d w., 
Sarah Pike, Feb. 20, '77, and had at H. ; i. Pruda, Nov 12, 71, in. Jesse 



94 GOULDING, GRANT, GREENWOOD. 

Daniels, Oct. 25, '92; n. Olive, Jly. 27, '73; in. Isaiah, Nov. 21, '74; 
iv. Kutb, June 17, '76. 

3. Tho. Gould, w., Huldah, had Dorcas, Oct. 3, 1751 or '7, d. yg., at H. 



1. Peter Goulding, w. Jane , had Peter, b. 1GG5, at Boston. 



Wtyi. Grant, s. of Joshua G. of Watertown, by w. Ann Nevinson, and grd. s. 
of Joseph, and gr. grd. f. of Christopher G., b. 1608, and an early settler of 
W. [Bond]; in. Elizth. Marshall, '41 ; had at H. i. Anna, Mar. 7, 1741-2 ; 
ii. Neverson, Nov. 28, '43, d. Oct. 31, '45; m. Sarah, Nov. 17, '45, who, 
or a 2d Sarah, m. Ephm. Lettlefield, Esq., of H. ; iv. Nevenson, m. Sarah, 
had Sally, Oct. 1, 1788, at H., r. Stratton, Vt. 



1. Dea. Wm. Greenwood, fr. Newton, settled in S., £ in. S.W. of the 
Common, where Nathan Grout lives. About 1730 he received the first po- 
tatoes brought to S., and in testing their esculent qualities, declared that 
" after freezing and thawing a few times, they would be good." He drew 
land in Doug. 1730 ; was 24 years Town Clerk ; 6 years selectman, and 

representative in 1747. He m. Abigail , and had, i. Abigail, June 2, 

1716; ii. Dorcas, Jly. 17, '17. 
12. 2. in. Wm., Esq., Nov. 4, '21. 
8. 3. iv. Caleb, Sep. 9, 24, d. Feb. 4, 1800. 
22. 3i. v. Jonas, Apl. 25, 27, d. May 28, 1802 ; vi. Samuel, Mar. 21, '29 ; vn. 

" John, Dec. 16, '30 ; vm. Daniel, Jly. 22, '32 ; 
18. 7. ix. Joseph, June 10, '34 ; x. Abigail, Aug. 10, '37. 

3. 8. Caleb, m. Waitstill ; 2d, Jemima (Daniels) Leland. 

27. 9. i. Tho., Dec. 7, '50 ; n. Moses, June 9, '53 ; in. Aaron, Nov. 10, '55, 
m. Anna Learned, '85 ; iv. Ruth, Mar. 13, '57 ; v. Waitstill, June 11, '62 ; 
vi. Wm., Aug. 24, '66, d. Oct. 12, '74. 

2. 12. Wm., Esq., jun., w., Abigail, d. Sep. 9, 1775, r. S., and rm. to Dublin, 
where he was town clerk, treasr., repres. , schoolmaster, and her first Justice ; 
was a carpenter, and built the 1st meeting house in D. i. Waitstill, Nov. 17, 
1745, at S. ; n. John Death, Sep. 24, '47; in. Daniel, Oct. 1, '49, m. 
Rebecca Church, of S., May 28, '72, and s. in Dublin ; iv. Eli, Sep. 30, '51 ; 
v. Elizabeth, Apl. 8, '54, m. Moses Greenwood, '72, fr. Newton, and s. in 
Dub.; vi. Joshua, Oct. 11, '55; vn. Wm., June 25, '58; vm. Wm., 
Nov. 6, '60 ; 

7. 18. Joseph, w., Sarah Greenwood, fr. Newton, m. 1759, r. S., and Dublin, and 
rm. to Me. i. Ebenezer, Mar. 4, 1759, d. Jan. 30, 1780, at Dub. ; n. 
John, Dec. 24, '60 ;,m. Nathl., Nov. 6, '61, at S. 

3£. 22. Jonas, w. Sarah. I. Jona., Nov. 12, 1755, m. Sybil , had Alvan, 

Apl. 3, '81 ; Sybil, bap. Jan. 2, '85, at S. 
ii. Mary, March 16, '58; in. Bele, Apl. 4, 'GO, m. Mary Babcock, Jly. 
10, '83 ; iv. Betty, Jan. 23, '65 ; v. Betty, Aug. 4, '67, m. Ebenr. 
Greenwood, Aug. 30, '98 ; vi. Reuben, Jan. 9, '70, m. Cate, had i. Betsey, 



G R U T . G U Y , II A L L , II A It D I N G . 95 

Dec. 12, '96; ii. Senica, Jly. 16, '99 ; in. Bela, bp. Sep. C, 1801; 

iv. Elihu, bp. Sep. 6, '07 ; v. Catherine, bp. Sep. 9, '10; 
vn. Susanna, June 4, '72 ; vm. Jonas, Jly. 19, '75, m. Polly Stratton, 

bad, Aaron, b. Oct. 30, '99 ; Sally Stratton, bp. Oct. 13, 11. 
ix. Acbsab, Dec. 16, '78. 



9. 27. Tho. m. Deborah Barbour, Apl. 17, 1777. I. John, bp. Oct, 22, 1786; 
ii. Oliver, b. Dec. 21, '81; in. Deborah, Mar. 16, '85; iv. Tho., Apl. 

27, '87. 



28. James Greenwood, m. Patience Leland, dg. of Isaac L., Nov. 13, 1740, 
and had at H., i. James, June 5, 1741-2, d. Jan. 1G/41--2 ; n. Thankful, 
May 15, '4- ; in. Patience, June 7, '48 ; iv. James, Dec. 23, '5- ; 
v. Keziah, Jly. 3, '53. 



1- John GrOUt, fr. Sudbury to S., m. Sarah, who d. Aug. 12, 1775 ; and 
2d, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Dec. 9, '79. He d. with the dropsy, Mar. 7, 
'9G, a. 78, had, I. Olive, Aug. 28, 1761 ; n. Royal, Apl. 8, '63 ; in. Bela, 
Jly. 29, '65, d. Dec. 19, 1800. 

2. Elias Grouts, w., Esther, d. Aug. 5, 1795, a. 23; 2d w., Rhoda; had, 
i. Sophia, Aug. 14, '91 ; n. John, Apl. 10/93 ; in. Esther, Jly. 27, '95; 
iv. Mary, Nov. 9, '99, by w. Rhoda, and pr. v. Nathan. 



Abel Guy, m. Rachel Boyden, Aug. 18, 1779, and had at H. i. Alpheus, Nov. 

4, '79; ii. Rocity, Aug. 31, '81; in. Sarah, Apl. 24, '84 ; iv. Hannah, 

Apl. 24, '87. 

i»i»i 

Samuel Hall, m. Sarah Johnson, 1755, had at H., i. Abel, Aug. 10, '55 ; 
ii. Sarah, Ap. 10, '59 ; in. Richard, Sep. 18, '63. 



1. Cpt. Robert Harding, of Boston, was admitted freeman, May 18, 

1631, a merchant much employed in the public affairs of the town and colony ; 
and in 1650 returned to London. 

2. John Harding was of Dunboro', able to bear arms in 1643. 

3. John Harding took the freeman's oath, May 13, 1640, and was acting as a 
commoner in Weymouth in 1643, d. 1682. Estate inventoried at £167. 

4. Joseph Harding, was of Eastham in 1657, whose descendants I have exten- 
sively traced. He probably went from Plymouth or vicinity that year, and 
m. Bethiah Cook, at E., Apl. 4, 1660. There is such an identity of names 
among his descendants, with those of the Hardings, of Plym. and Norf. Cos., 
as indicates a descent from the same ancestors. 

5. Nehemiah Harding, of Braintree, m. Hanh. Neals, 1678 ; had no children 
recorded. 

8. G. John Hardine, of Braintree, 1679. 
24. 7. Abraham Harding, " glover," previously of Braintree, became proprietor of 
Medfield, 1649-'50, and sold 2, (1) 1653 to Tho. Holbrooke his house, 
barn and 53 acres at B. — Suf. Prob., L. 5, p. 512. It is highly probable 
that the 1st and 2d John above were the same man, and that Joseph, of East- 
ham, and Nehemiah, John and Abraham, of Braintree, were his sons. 



96 HARDING. 

6. 8. John, of Braintree, by w. Hannah, had, i. Susanna, Nov. 28, 1679 ; 

13. 9. ii. John, June 1, 1681 ; in. Lydia Dec. 22, '84; iv. Peter, May 29, '87; 

v. Abigail, May 26, '89 ; vi. Nathaniel, Jan. 9, '92 ; 
vn. Samuel, Feb. 27, '98. 

9. 13. John, m. Mary Littlefield, 1703-'4, at B., settled in Abington, and had, 

i. Mary, July 25, 1705, m. Isaac Hobart, Apl. 9, '24 ; n. Sarah, Apl. 9, 
1707 ; in. Joan, Nov. 19, 1709, m. Ebenz. Spear, Dec. 29, '31 ; 
iv. llebecca, Jan. 27, 1715-16, m. Samuel Noyes, March 3, '36-7 ; 
v. Lydia, Aug. 4, '20 ; 

15. 14. vi. John, Sept, 3, '23. 

14. 15. John, m. Anna , s. in Abington, and had, i. Anna, Dec. 14, 1754 ; 

ii. John, Feb. 12, '57 ; in. Samuel, March 19, '64; 

18. iv. Seth, Aug. 29, '69. 

19. Seth Harden, pr. the s. of John, (No. 13,) m. Mehetabel , and a 2d 

w. and had at Abington, i. Polly, Sept. 8, 1779 ; n. Jacob, July 25, '82 ; 
in. Nancy, Apl. 2, '85 ; iv. Cushing, now rs. in A. ; 

v. James S., by 2d w. ; vi. Prescott A., by do. 

7. 24. Abraham, r. Braintree, Dedham and Medfield, is presumed to have been 

the father of 
27. 25. I. Abraham, who settled in Medfield. 
58. 26. ii. John, who s. do., and d. March 4, 1719-20. 



* 25. 27. Abraham, d. May 22, 1655, at M. leaving a wid. Elizabeth Adams, who 
m. John Frary, 1656, had, i. Mary, May 1, 1653 ; and 
29. 28. ii. Abraham, Aug. 18, 1655, whom Mr. Frarie brought up and remembered 
in his will with his 2 children by her, one of whom was the excellent Prudence 
Frary, the grandmother of Mrs. Joseph Lovell, of Med. 

28. 29. Abraham, m. 1st, Marie , and 2d, Sarah , ab. 1695, settled 

on the old Hartford road, in the S. E. part of Medway, and had, 

i. Marie, Apl. 25, 1687 ; n. Elizabeth, Jan. 1, '89, d. Apl. 15, 1708. 

36. 30. in. Tho., Dec. 7, 1692 ; 

40. 31. iv. John, April 6, '94; v. Sarah, Feb. 22, '95-6; vi. Samuel, May 15, 
'98; vn. Lydia, Dec. 14, 1701; vin. Isaac, Feb. 1G, 1705-6; 
ix. Elizabeth, July 25, 1708 ; x. Joseph, March 22, 1710-11, of 2d parish, 
Wrent., 1769 ; xi. ? Abraham, who Aug. 20, 1754, gave half his house and 
land in Med. to his son Abraham. He had a s. Job, then d. 



30. 36. Tho. m., settled in E. Medway, and had 

76. 37. i. Joshua, who m. Clark, and s. in Sturbridge; 

83. 38. ii. Elijah, who settled at Sturbridge ; 

39. in. Tho., who. m. Susannab Cummings, and s. in Med. and probably others. 



31. 40. John, m. Thankful Bullard, dg. of John B. of Med. by w. Abigail Leland, 

dg. of Hopestill L., by w. Abigail Hill, and grd. dg. of Henry L., by w. 

Margaret Babcock, and gr. grd. dg. of Hopestill L. of Weymouth, b. 1580; 

r. E. Med., had 
42. 41. i. John, Jan. 20, 1723-4, d. Sept. 7, 1809, m. Kezia Pond; n Abigail, 

Sept. 22, 1726, m. Nathan Fiske, of Med., Feb. 7, '44-45 ; tit. Thankful, 



HARDING. 97 

Dec. 17, 1735, m. James Boyden, Dec. 3, '55 ; iv. Mercy, Dec. 9, 1735 ; 
m. Seth Patridge, of Wrentk , Oct. 9, '60. 



41. 42. John, left the ancient homestead in E. Med. and settled on the W. side of 
Chicken Brook, in W. Med., ab. 1-3 m. S. of the upper depot in Holl., m. 
Kezia Pond from Wrentb. and had, I. Kezia; n. Hannah, m. David Leland. 

45. 43. in. Abijab, Capt., d. Feb. 17, 1826 ; iv. Mary, m. Jeremiah Leland, of H. 

52. 44. v. John, Capt.. d. March 11, 1833 ; vi. Alpheus, pr., d. young. 

43. 45. Abijab, m. Sybil Adams, of Med., who d. Feb.. 6, 1813, a. 60. He m. 2d, 
Mary Smith, March 3, 1814. He settled in Barre, and was a substantial 
and respected citizen. He had, i. Keziah, Feb. 10, 1771, at Med., m. Luke 
Adams, and 2d, Josiah Allen, '94 ; n. Sybil, m. Joseph Broad ; 
46. in. Alpheus, Rev. A. M., Jan. 19, 1780, m. Sarah Bridge, Oct. 10, 1808, 
settled as pastor of the Congl. Chh. in New Salem, where he has for a long 
period sustained this relation and shared the high esteem of bis people, and 
that of an extensive acquaintance abroad. He had 

i. Martha S., "July 1, 1813, m. Rev. Azarelah Morse Bridge, of 
Norton, July 31, '38, and d. May 21, '41, leaving Fred. H, b. Sept. 

1, '39 ; ii. Josiah Bridge, July 11, 1816, m. Sarah S. Proctor, Aug. 
12, '39, r. Como, 111., had 1. Chs. P., Sept. 12, 1840, at N. Salem; 

2. Geo. W., May 2, '42, at do. ; 3. Alpheus, July 25, '44, at Como ; 
4. Arthur A., July 9, '47; in. Alpheus, Jan. 12, '18, d. yg. 

iv. Rhoda, who m. Hubbard Parker; v. Abijah, who m. Mary Shattuck, 
March 19, 1807; vi. Oliver, b. 1774, d. Oct. 22, 1843, m. Elizabeth 
Browning, and had Sybil, who m. Luke Adams, '38, had Austin F., '40 ; 
50. vn. John, who settled in Vt. ; vin. Silas, who m. Polly Barrett, and d. at 
N. Salem. He had i. Eliza B., March 29, 1821 ; m. Gustavus Atwood, 

and has Eliza J., and Chs. F. ; 

ii. Mary Ann, Jan. 12, 1825, m. Hugh Henry, '44; 
ix. Tho., who was deformed, and d. unm. 



44. 52. John, Capt., m. Beulah Metcalf, b. March 26, 1762, d. March 20, 1839, 
dg. of Judge Steph. M., of Bell., inherited bis father's farm in Med. He 
was a very amiable man, a good neighbor, an upright and useful citizen. 
He had, i. Hephzibah, March 7, 1785, m. Alexr. Leland, of Hoi. 
53. n. Alpheus, Apl. 20/89, m. Abigl.Chamberlain, had only Hephzibah L., 1813. 
in. Beulah, July 23, '90, m. Lemuel Littlefield, of H. ; 
it. Sewall, Rev., A. M., b. March 20, '93, grad. at Union Col. 1818, 
studied Theology with Rev. Dr. Emmons and Rev. Dr. Ide, was ord. Jan. 
17, 1821 as 1st pastor of the Orthodox Congl. Chh. in Waltham, of which 
he is to be regarded as the father. In Nov., 1837, he was dismissed from 
this charge and installed over the 1st Chh. in his native town. After a suc- 
cessful ministry here of 13 ys., he was appointed secretary of the Cong'l 
Board of Publication, in the establishment of which he had been a prominent 
and efficient agent. This organization is wisely calculated to preserve the 
ancient landmarks of the churches, and promote the " faith once delivered 
to the saints." From this station, Mr. H., through the publications of the 
Board, is now speaking to the churches, not only in America, but in foreign 
lands, and will do so to coming generations. To him has been granted the 
privilege of consecrating children of his household to public service in that of 
the Lord. May bo abide to reap an abundant reward from a knowledge of 
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98 HARDING. 

their usefulness. Ho m. Eliza Wheeler, dg. of Capt. Lewis and Betsey 
(Richardson) TV. of Med., and had 

i. John TV., Rev., A. M., Oct. 12, 1821, grad. at Yale Col. 1845, 
and at Theo. Sem., Ando., 1848 ; ord. pas. of the ancient Cong'l chh. 
at Longmeadow, Jan. 1, 1850, with every prospect of an efficient min- 
istry. He m. Mehetabel Lane, has Wm. C., b. '54. 
ii. Sewall B., Dec. 25, 1828, d. Sept. 19, '34; in. Eliza Mercy, Dec. 
24, 1826, m. Rev. Augustus Walker, A. M., rs. as a miss'y at Diarbekir, 
W. Asia, has Sewall H. Among other heavy trials since her arrival in 
Asia, Mrs. TV. and husband have been in perils among robbers, un- 
equalled in the history of modern missions. Of her cheerful endurance 
and entire consecration ; of her presence of mind, disinterested affection, 
and more than heroic fortitude, see Puritan Recorder for July 13, 1854. 
iv. George L., Jan. 9, '30 ; v. Wm. Greenough, Aug/5, '34 ; 
vi. Harriot B., Sept. 15, '36. 



26. 58. John, Dea., m. Nov. 26, 1665, Hannah Wood, dg. of Nicholas W., of 
Bogistow, now Sherborn, who d. Feb. 23, 1667--8. He m. 2d Elizabeth 
Adams, b. 11, (9) 1649, m. Dec. 16, 1668, dg. of Lt. Henry A. of Medf., 
and had at M., i. Hannah, Feb. 13, 1666-7, d. 26, (3) '67 ; 
ii. Abraham, Feb. 6, 1667-8, d. Apl. 5, '70 ; in. John, Sept. 11, 1669, 
d. May 16, '70; iv. John, Feb. 21, '70-1, d. 8, (4), '72 ; 

62. 59. v. Henrie, June 7, '73 ; 

63. 60. vi. Ichabod, Nov. 23, '75, d. Feb. 2, 1729-30 ; vn. Elizabeth, Dec. 2, 

'78 : vm. Marie, June 22, '81, d. Jan. 12, '82 ; 
66. 61. ix. Abraham, Dec. 27, 1683, d. May 4, 1741; x. Hannah, Oct. 16, '86, 
d. Jan. 13, 1717-18 ; xi. John, Sept, 23, '91, d. Jan. 16, '92-3 ; 



59. 62. Henrie, m. Marie Allen, of Medfd., July 7, 1698, who d. Aug. 18, 1723. 
He had at M., i. John, Nov. 14, 1699, d. Dec. 4, '99 ; 
ii. Mary, May 11, 1701, d. June 11, '13; in. Abigail, cl. June 13, 1713. 



60. 63. Ichabod, m. Abigail Barbour, fr. Milton, 1699, and had at Medfield, 

i. John, d. Jan. 10, 1703; n. John, 1704; in. Benoni, Apl. 25, 1707. 



61. 66. Abraham, jun., Capt., m. Mary Smith, 1706, who d. Jan. 22, 1748-9. 
He had, 

73. 67. i. Moses, Dec. 23, 1707; n. Mary ; in. Elisha, Apl. 11, 1711 ; 

iv. John, April 19, 1713 ; v. Caleb, Nov. 26, '14 ; vi. Stephen, May 26, 
'17, d. July 29, '17 ; vn. Simon, Apl. 11, '19, m. Patience, who d. '51, 2d 
Mary Gardner, '52 ; vm. Olive, Sept. 4, '22 ; ix. Jabez, June 28, '26, d. 
Feb., 1800, m. 1754, Miriam Wells, b. May 4, 1735, d. 1820-5, and 
settled at Sturbridge, where he had 

i. Stephen ; II. Jabez ; in. Amy, who m. Ebenr. Morse, of Sturb. 



67. 73. Moses, m. Mary Bullard, dg. of John B., by w. Abigail Leland, settled in 
Medfd., and had i. Abigail, April 4, 1736 ; n. Nathan, May 1, '38 ; 
in. Henry, June 5, '40. 



37. 36. Josiah, m. Clark, and 2d, Jemima Corbin, from Woodstock, Ct., and 

had at Sturbridge, i. Hannah, who m. Hemingway ; n. Sarah, m. 

Shumway; in. Joshua, m. Jemima Fiske ; iv. Juda, m. Timothy 



HARRINGTON, HART, HARRIS, HAVEN, HAWES. 99 

Chamberlain ; v. Tryphena, m. Reuben Marsh; vi. Jemima, by 2d w., m. 
Moses Clark ; vn. Tryphosa, m. Doct. Abel Howard ; 
79. 78. vni. Ralph, m. Azuba Goodell, 2d Nancy Goodell, r. Sturb, ; 
ix. Louis d. yg. 

78. 79. Ealpb, by w. Azuba Goodell, had at S., i. Calvin, Feb. 19, 1798, m. Lydia 
Jackson ; n. Palmer, Dec. 23, '99, m. Bathsheba Wood, r. St. 
in. Nancy, Oct. 4, 1801 ; iv. Stillman, Nov. 26, 1803, drowned Aug. 9, 

'19; v. Dwight, Apl. 27, '07, m. Holbrook, and rm. with the 

Mormons. 



37. 83. Elijah had at Sturbridge, i. Sarah ; n. Deborah ; in. Elijah, who d. at the 

S. ; iv. Lyman, a distinguished lawyer, d. at Natchez'; v. Nathan, m. 

Marsh, had Newell, Deb., &c. 

Seth Harding, pr. s. of Abraham, the br. of Job. and cous. of Capt. John, 

m. Mary Learned, r. Bent st., Med., had, i. Mary Ann, d. um. ; 

ii. Abigail, m. Wm. Patridge, 2d Clark P. ; in. Mary, m. Clark P. ; 

iv. Sarah A., m. Edw. Eaton ; v. Abraham S., rs. Med., m. Harriet L. 

Clark ; vi. Adaliza, m. Francis W. Clark ; vn. Edw. L., rs. Raleigh, N. C 

vni. Harriet M., m. Dea. Tim. Daniels, of H., 1853. 



Joshua Harrington, w. Mary, had at H., i. Hanb., July 9, 1756; 
ii. Noah, Feb. 1, '60. 



Wm, Hart, fr. Dedham, w. Mary, d. May 15, 1802, a. 59, had at S., 

i. Fisher, Nov. 6, 1783; n. Wm., jun., pr. who m. Miriam Breck, Ap. 
22, '92, and had Betsey, June 1, '93. 

Willard Hart, m. Deborah Sanger, Nov. 7, 1793, had Ede, June 3, '94, at S. 



ErastUS Harris, w. Rebecca, had at H., Hanh., Ap. 7, 1754. 



1. John Haven, w. Mary, had at H., i. Anna, Oct. 1, 1737. 
3. 2. n. Jesse, Feb. 20, '44-5 ; in. Sarah, Dec. 17, '50. 



2. 3. Jesse Haven, Dea., was an excellent citizen, chosen Dea., May 1, 1789, 
was T. clerk 1 y. and selectman 6 yrs., m. Catherine Marsh, June 3, 1767 ; 
i. Anna, Feb. 17, '68, at H. ; n. John, Mar. 9, '74 ; in. Mary, June 6, 
'76; iv. Jesse, May 1, '79 ; v. Elisha, Ap. 16, '82. 

4. Wm. Haven, m. Miriam Hemenway, March 31, 1774, and had at H. 

i. Joseph. 

5. Luther Haven, w. Experience, had at H., Clarissa, Feb. 25, '98. 



ZacheUS Hawes, w. Mary, had at S., Ichabod, July 22, 17G7. 

Benj. Hawes, m. Sarah Leland, bad at S., i. Olive, Ap. 29, '80; 
ii. Sarah, Oct. 28, '83 ; in. Amos, June 16, '94. 



100 HAYES, HAYWARD, IIEMENWAY, HERO, HILL. 

Daniel Hawes, w. Jemima, had at S., i. Carlos, Oct. 10, 1796 ; 
ii. Jemima, Feb. 25, '98 ; in. Silas Metcalf Mann, May 27, '99. 

Jeremiah R. Hawes, b. 1808, s. of Samuel H. (b. 1775, at Dorchr.) by w. 
Hannah Stratton, dg. of Daniel S., of Natick, m. Nancy Whiting, b. 1815, 
dg. of Nathaniel, of Amherst, N. H., and had at S. 

i. Alfred; n. Asa Claris; in. Edw. ; iv. Willard. 



Elisha Hayes, w. Sarah, had Sophia Gardner, June 4, 1799, at S. 



Nathan Hayward, or Howard, (p. fr. Med.,) m. Cynthia Daniels, 1782, 
and had at H, i. Phebe, Sep. 13, 1782; n. Zeanas, Jan. 27, '84; 
in. Hannah and Huldah, Sep. 16, '85 ; iv. Cephas, May 9, '87. 

Ezekiel Hayward, w. Hanh., had at H, Joel, Dec. 22, 1779. 



1. Joshua Hemenway, m. Anna Twitchell, Feb. 23, 1749, had at H., 

i. Miriam, Dec. 24, 1749; n. John, March 10, '52; in. Anne, Jan. 25, 

'54, d. '59 ; iv. Joshua, Dec. 22, '55 ; v. Hanh., June 11, '58 ; 

vi. Anna, March 6, '60; vn. Rhoda, June 15, '62; vin. Joseph, June 

8, '64 ; ix. Lydia, June 20, 1766 ; x. Asa, Aug. 27, '68 ; 

xi. Ezra, June 24, '74. 

2. Josiah Hemenway, w. Zerviah Mellen, 2d w. Mary, had at H, i. Abigail, 

Sep. 18, 1761, d. '66; n. Josiah, May 16, '63 ; in. Sarah, Nov. 26, '65. 
tv. Abigail, March 7, 1767 ; v. Daniel, Oct. 27, '68, m. Mary , had 

i. Nathan, Dec. 8, '95 ; n. Lovet, May 28, '97 ; in. Daniel, Nov. 

15, '98. 
vi Wm, Mellen, Jan. 25, '71 ; vi. Mary, Jan. 25, '73 ; vn. James, Sep. 
16, '74; vin. Eliphalet, Feb. 6, '76; ix. Zerviah, Dec. 18, '77; 
x. Elihu, Jan. 1, '79; xi. Josiah, March 15, '80; xn. Zerviah, Nov. 8, 
'82 ; xin. Sarah, (by w. Mary,) May 5, '86 ; xiv. James, Nov. 17,, '89. 

1 *tm * 

John Hero, w. Hannah , had Aaron, Aug. 11, 1794, at H. 



— Hill. So many of this name early settled in N. Eng. as to make every part 
of it a Hilly country. 

1. John Hill, a blacksmith, seems to have been one of the early settlers of 
Plymouth Colony, for in 1632 he was named among those to whom Gov. 
Bradford offered to give a dismission. He was in Dorchester in 1633, be- 
came a member of the Boston Artillery Co., and d. 1664. His wife was 

Frances , and his children 

6. 2. i. John, d. at Sherborn, Jan. 23, 1717-18, leaving a wid., Elizabeth, who 

d. Dec. 1, 1719 ; n. Frances, who m. Austin, and rm. to Taunton, 

1675; in. Jona., who removed to Bridgewater; iv. Mary, who m. Tho. 
Breck, 12 (12), 1656, and rm. to Sherborn; v. Samuel, b. 1640, at Dor- 
chester ; vi. Hannah, b. 1641, m. Fisher, and in 1671 rm. to Taunton. 

vn. Mercy, b. 1642, and probably ; vin. Ebenezer, who sold land in Dorch., 
1675. 



M 

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2. 6. John, in. Hannah , s. in S. part of Sherborn, on W. bank of Charles 

R., about half a mile N. of Bogistow pond, and between his brother-in-law, 
Breck, and Tho. Holbrook, signed petitions for the incorporation of S., in 
1662 and 1674, and was assessed the highest among the proprietors of S. to 
extinguish Indian claims, in 1686. He drew many lots of the public lands 
in S. and Douglas, gave his children a deed of his proprietary in S., Sep. 16, 
1715, yet drew 32^! acres in Doug., pr. Oct. 1715, and d. prior to March 
20, 1717--18. He^had by w. Hannah , who d. Nov., 1690 ; 

11. 7. i. Samuel, b. pr. at Dorchester, who m. Hannah Twitchell, and s. in Med. 
ii. Abigail, Feb. 2, 1658, m. Jan. 1, 1712-13, James Adams, 

15. 8. in. John, Feb. 2, 1661, d. May 23, 1738, leaving a wid., Rebecca, who d. 
Feb. 17, 1738--9 ; iv. Maria, Oct. 28, '62, d. yg. 

19. 9. v. Eleazer, June 29, '64, drew land in S., 1696, and d. prior to 1730. 

22. 10. vi. Ebenezer, but not recorded. 

7. 11. Samuel, w. Hanh. Twitchell, m. Nov. 4, 1679, dg. pr. of Benj. T., of » 

Medf'ld, r. Medfield, now Med., near S.W. corner of Sherborn, and had, 

i. Samuel. Nov. 18, 1680, at S., d. Dee. 30, '80. 
29. 12. ii. Samuel, March 29, 1682, in. Rachel Adams, March 29, 1705 ; 

in. Sarah, March 7, 84. 
39. 13. iv. Ephraim, Nov. 5, '88, the first planter of Douglas. 
41. 14. v. Jona., Nov. 6, '91 ; vi. Maria, July 15, '96; vn. Hanh., 21 (1), **; 

vin. Dorothy, Jly. 18, '98 ; ix. Lydia, May 8, 1701 ; x. Rachel, Dec. 12, '03. 

8. 15. John, as jun., drew 36^ acres at Doug., 1715, and 58 do. in 1730, which 

his son Samuel sold to Ralph Shepard, of Stoughton, 1754 ; m. Hannah 
Rocket, who d. Feb. 7, 1729-30, dg. of Dea. Samuel R., of Medfd., in- 
herited the homestead of his father in S., had, 

33. 16. i. John, m. Ruth ; n. Aaron, settled in Wrentham, a blacksmith, 

sold 58 acres in Douglas, to Samuel Hill, 1744-5 ; in. Hannah, Aug. 9, 
1702, m. Wm. Mann, of Wrenth. ; iv. Sarah, Nov. 11, 1705, m. Samuel 
Morse, of W., a blacksmith. 

43. 18. v. Samuel, Aug. 11, 1710, d. prior to 1771. 

vi. James, March 3, '11-12, d. yg., May 11, '29. 

9. 19. Eleazer, first assessed, 1684, at S., drew lands in Doug., 1715, and' in 

1730, 43 acres were drawn there in his right, m. Sarah , d. July 6, 

1699, r. S., had, 

44. 20. i. Eleazer, Jan. 1, 1688 ; ii. Sarah, Nov. 30, '90. 
49. 21. in. Solomon, Dec. 27, '91. 

10. 22. Ebenezer, w. Mary , 2d w., Sarah . s. in S., was rated for the 

Indian title with his father, 1686, and early drew lands in S. In 1715, 
he drew 192^ acres in Doug., and after the proprietors of 4000 acres at D., 
had voted to accept a charge of £10 for the survey of the same, " Old Mr. 
Ebenr. Hill appeared, his lot falling well, and freely undertook to satisfy the 
Committee and Surveyor." He had at S., 

51. 23. i. Ebenr., March 2, 1692, drew land in Douglas, as E., jun., 1715 and 
1730. 

55. 24. ii. Nathl., Dee. 25, '93, drew 461 acres at D., and d. at S., Mar. 10, V4. 

57. 25. in. David, June 1, '94, drew 42 do., in 1730 at D. 

60. 20. iv. Moses, Mar. 30, '99, by 2d w.. drew 36, do., at D., in 1730, in the 
right of Tho. Jones, 46 do. more. 

62. 27. v. Joseph, Apl. 1, 1701. 



102 HILL. 

63. 28. vi. Isaac, Feb. 28, '03-4 ; vn. Lydia, Nov. 30, '06 ; 

vni. Judith, June 3, '10, m. Benj. Bullard, of S., 1727. 

12. 29. Samuel, w. Rachel Adams, r. Med. 

64. 30. i. Samuel, Jan. 12, 1706-7. 

69. 31. ii. Joshua, Feb. 27, '08-9; ra. Kachel, March 26, '11, m. Malachi Bul- 
lard, 1731 ; iv. Experience, Oct. 7, '13. 
74. 32. v. Ebenezer, Nov. 3, 16. 

16. 33. John, w. Ruth . 

79. 34. I. James, Aug. 13, 1734, d. Jan. 9, 1810, m. Grace Jones, from Acton. 
84. 35. ii. Caleb, Aug. 17, '36 ; in. Ruth, Ap. 22, '39, m. Cheney, had 

Ruth; iv. Hanh., Oct. 16, '41, m. Asa P. Richardson, of Med ; 

v. Ebenr., July 8, '44, removed to Dulin, N. H. ; 

vi. Abigail, Feb. 4, '46, m. Isaiah Daniels, of Med. 
89. 37. vn. John, Apl. 28, '50, d. Dec. 15, 1811, in N. part of S. ; 

vni. pr. Solomon. 

13. 39. Ephraim, drew 20 acres in Douglas, in 1730, in consideration of his being 

the 1st settled inhabitant, m. Hannah Sheffield, June 15, 1715, r. Med. 
and Douglas; i. Caleb, May 23, 1716; n. Elizabeth, June 10, '19; 
in. Hannah, Feb. 4, 1725, at Holl. 

14. 41. Jona., w. Hannah, r. Medway ; 

93. 42. i. Jona., Dec. 7, 1723 ; n. Sarah, May 27, '28 ; in. Loas, May 17, '31. 

18. 43. Samuel, w. Elizabeth, who m. 2d Joseph Daniels, of Needham, Nov. 27, 
1771. Samuel settled in S. as a housewright, and had, i. Elizabeth, Oct. 
13, 1739 ; ii. Sarah, Aug. 24, '41 ; in. Mary, May 7, '44 ; iv. Ede, Feb. 
22, '47-8 ; v. Hannah, Nov. 23, '52 ; vi. Martha, Jan. 1, '55, m. Isaac 
Bullard, of Holl., May 22, 1783. 

20. 44. Eleazer, " Dr.," w. Rebecca Richardson, m. Aug. 18, 1172. He as E., jun., 

drew 53 acres in Douglas in 1715 and '30, r. S. had 
98. 45. i. Asa, Feb. 20, 1712-13.? 
101. 46. ii. Wm., June 23, '15 ; in. Joseph, Aug. 23, '18 ; iv. Rebecca, Mar. 6, 

'21-22, m. Joseph Cousins, of H., and 2d Patrick ' Shays, Oct. 30, 1765, 

the father of Daniel, the Rebel; v. Elizabeth, Jan. 30, '23-24; 

vi. Ruth, Feb. 26, '26-7; vn. Daniel, Feb. 22, '32-3, d. Sept. 16,? '35. 

21. 49. Solomon, w. Mary. He drew 33 acres in Doug., 1715 and '30, r. S. had 

i. Sarah, July 3, 1715 ; n. Joanna, Nov. 13, '20 ; 
130. 50. in. Jona., Dec. 25, '25 ; iv. Mary, July 8, '29 ; v. Kezia, Apl. 13, '32 ; 
vi. Zervia, April 13, '32. 

23. 51. Ebenezer, w. Mary, r. S. had, i. Hannah, Oct. 13, 1712 ; n. Asa, Feb. 

20, '12-13?; in. Seth, Feb. 28, '16-17; iv. Ebenezer. 

24. 55. Nathaniel, w. Elizabeth Phips, m. May 20, 1719, d. Oct. 5, '73, 2d w. 

Hannah Haven, m. Mar. 13, 1766, and had at S., i. Abigail, Aug. 26, '26 ; 
d. Dec. 12, ? '26 ; 
109. 56. ii. Moses, Apl. 26, '28. 

25. 57. David, w. Sarah, r. Holl., had 

104.58. i. John Sept. 16, 1717; n. Isaac, Aug. 11, '20; in. Mary, July 12, 
'24 ; iv. Huldah, Sept. 13, '27. 



HILL W>1 

26. 60. Moses, w. Hannah Hill, m. June 27. 1720, r. Holl., had 
10G. 61. i. Moses, May, 10, 1730 ; n. Mary, Feb. 14, '33. 

27. G2. Joseph, w. Huldah , s. near Bell'h'm, established a tavern on the old 

Hartford road, and a blacksmith's shop where the late Job Partridge r., then 
H., now Med., and had, I. Bathsheba, May 24, 1744, m. Nathan Bullard, 
'60, of Holl. ; ii. Huldah, Oct. 7, '48 ; in. Hannah, Oct.7, '48. A Joseph, 
by w. Phebe, had David, March 20, '62, and by w. Elizabeth, had Phebe, 
Feb. 27, '66, at H., and by w. Hannah, had Aaron, Apl. 27, '52, at S. 

28. 63. Isaac, w. Lydia Whitney, r. N. E. part of Holl., had 

125. 63^. t. Jona., March 8, 1745, m. Kezia Daniels, who inherited the farm at 
Deaths' Bridge, and sold to Henry Death, and rm. N. Y. ; n. Isaac, d. yg. ; 

117. 63^. in. Whitney, May 13, '48, s. near E. Holl. depot; iv. Dorotha, Oct. 

18, '40, d. urn. ; v. Lydia, m. Fisher, of Dub. ; vi. Susanna, m. 

James Whitney, of S. 

30. 64. Samuel, w. Mary, r. Med., had, i. Mary, Feb. 15, 1733-4 ; 

n. Samuel, May 10, '36, m. Abigail , had Samuel, Dec. 5, 1767, 

in Med. ; in. Simon, July 17, '38, m. Prudence , had 1. Simon, 

Aug. 6, '62 ; 2. Prudence, Feb. 5, '74 ; 
115. 67. iv. Timothy, Dec. 1G, '40 ; v. Keziah, Feb. 3, '42-3 ; 
vi. Miriam, Feb. 27, '45-6 ; vn. Moses, Jan. 25, '48. 

31. 60. Joshua, w. Mary, r. Holl., had, i. Nathan, March 31, 1737 ; n. Lois, Nov. 

17, '30 ; in. Silas, June 15, '41 ; iv. Joshua, June 13, '43 ; 
v. Mary, March 21, '48, m. John Fisk ; vi. Simon, Sept. 8, '50. 

32. 74. Ebenezer, w. Bethia ; i. Eber., b. 1744, d. 1834, m. Esther Pratt, 

June 19, '1771, r. S., had 1. Asahel, March 22, '72, at S., rm. to Dublin ; 

ii. Moses, Apl. 18, '46 ; in. Aaron, Apl. 18, '46 ; 

iv. Elijah, May 22, ? '45 ; v. Josos or Jasor, May 24, '48. 

34. 70. James, w. Grace Jones, fr. Acton, m. July 5, 1758, r. S., had 

i. Lois, Feb. 9, 1761, m. Amos Fisher, of Fram. ; 

118. 80. ii. Samuel, June 24, '63 ; in. Eunice, Dec. 17, '65 ; 

119. 81. iv. James, March 1, '68, m. Abial Nason, 2d, Patty Adams; 

v. Grace-, March 25, '70 ; vi. Josiah, May 23, '72, m. 2d, Morey, 

r. Walpole, and had Lydia and Catherine ; vn. Hannah, Apl. 28, '74 ; 
vni. Martha ; 

01. 83. ix. Elijah. May 12, '77, m. Jan. 17, 1810, Catherine Sawyer, 2d 

Carley. 

35. 84. Caleb, w. Hannah (Fisk) Fairbank, rn. March 17, 1762, r. S., had 

i. Rhoda, Jan. 23, 1763, m. Simeon Leland, Sept. 27, '81 ; n. David, July 
13, '65, d. in Medf'd; in. Aaron, Apl. 11, '67, s. in Worces. Co.; 
iv. Abigail, Apl. 26, '60 ; v. John, Nov. 21, '71, bap. Nov. 24, '71, rm. 
Ohio ; vi. Lavinia, Oct. 3, '73 ; vn. Elijah, May 10, '75, pr. d. yg. ; 
vni. Timothy, March 3, '78, rm. to N. Wrentham. 

37. 80. John was a serg. in the revolutionary army at W. Point, 1778, resided 9 ys. 
with Rev. Mr. Bucknum, of Med., w. Caturah Smith, fr. Walpole, s. on the 
S. side of Chestnut Brook, 30 rods fr. Natick line on a farm bought of Isacc 
Russell, and had i. Cate, May 15, '1794, m. Dea. Aaron Coolidge, of S. ; 
ii. John, Dec. 23, '95, m. Rebecca Rugg, fr. Leominster, r. Sangerville, Me. 



104 HILL. 

in. Amos, Capt., Apl. 16, '98, m. Abigail Bowker, fr. Hopk., b. June 19, 
1805, m. '30, inherits the homestead, has 

i. Isaac N., m. Abby Ramsdell; ir. Mary E. 

83. 91. Elijah, m. Catherine Sawyer, 2d, Carley, had at S. ; 

T.Jones; n. Addison, m. Hannah H. Wentworth, dg. of Isaac TV., fr. 
Canton, via Newton, by w. Mary Hunting, and had at S. 
i. Lucy Mason ; it. Mary Elizabeth ; in. Anne. 

42. 93. Jona., w. Rebecca , r. Med., had, i. Moses, Oct. 28, 1746-7 ; 

ii. Theodore, Aug. 27, '48 ; in. Lois, Sept. 9, '50 ; iv. Sarah, July 6, '53 ; 
v. Aaron, Nov. 1, '55 ; vi. Jesse, May 26, '58. 

45. 98. Asa, w. Sarah, r. Sh., had i. Sarah, Aug. 21, 1736, d. Sep. 2, 1740 ; 
ii. Asa, Sep. 3, '37 ; in. Olive, June 8, '39 ; iv. Sarah, Jan. 29, 
'40-41 ; v. Martha, Apl. 29, '42 ; vi. Daniel, Apl. 19, '44 ; vn. Sarah, 
May 6, '49, d. Nov. 8, '44 ; vm. Tabitha, May 8, '51. 



46. 101. Win. w. Joanna Sawin, m. Feb. 19, 1740, r. S., had i. Susanna, Jan. 26, 
1741-2, d. yg. ; n. Miriam, Feb. 14, '43-4 ; in. Zedakiah, Oct. 4, '46 ; 
iv. Jesse, Nov. 15, 49; ivi. Susanna, b. ab. 1756, m. James Whitney 
of S., 1780. She of H. ; v. Joanna, Jly. 17, '5-. 



58. 104. John, w. Thankful, r. Holl, had i. David, May 19, 1745 ; n. Sarah, 
Mar. 6, '46-7 ; in. David, Apl. 27, '49 ; iv. Mercy, Feb. 29, '53. 

61. 106. Moses, w. Christian, r. Holl, had i. Jemima, Jly. 8, 1755; n. Chris- 
tian, Jan.- 22, '53; in. Moses, Jly. 9, '57 ; iv. Abner. Mar. 25, '60, d. 
'61 ; v. Uriah, Oct. 27, '62. 

56. 109. Moses, w. Abigail, r. S., had i. Mary, Sep. 15, 1749; n. Elizabeth, 
Mar. 26, '51, m. Caleb Leland, jun., May 19, '74; in. Mercy, Oct. 29, 
'53 ; iv. Moses, Aug. 24, '55, had Elizabeth Clark, bap. May 10, '78 ; 
v. Jesse, Aug. 17, '57, m. Keziah Brick, May 14, '78, had Keziah, Sep. 
8, '79, and rm. to Gardner ; vi. Nathl., Jly. 3, '60 ; vn. Bezeleel, Sep. 
17, '63 ; vm. Silvanus, Jly. 10, '65. 

67. 115. Timothy, w. Mary Bullard, dg. of Henry B., of Med., r. S. and H. 
i. Timothy, July 24, 1767; n. Jemima, Feb. 15, 1772; in. Mary, 
Jan. 4, '75 ; iv. Henry. Jan. 26, '85, d. Feb. 8, '86 ; v. Clary, Nov. 
13, '89, bp. Jan. 3, '90. 

63£. 117. Whitney, w. Rachel Daniels, b. Apl. 29, 1754, m. Aug. 5, 1773, and d. 
Sep. 7, 1850, retaining a good recollection. She was the daughter of 
Tim. D., of S., by w. Ruth Leland, and grd. dg. of Saml. D., by w. 
Expe. Adams, and gr. grd. dg. of Joseph, of Medfd., and gr. gr. grd. dg. 
of Jo., of M., by w. Mary Fairbanks, i. Hannah, May 22, 1774, m. 
Nathan Penneman, of Bell., Oct. 18, '98; n. Lona, June 20, '76, m. 
John Clemens, of Hopk. ; in. Arnold, Sep. 4, '78, m. Lavina Smith, fr. 
Bell., r. Hubbardton, Vt. ; iv. Rachel, bp. Aug. 19, '81, m. Elijah 
Thayer, of Mend. ; v. Daniels, May 19, '84, m. Mary Leland ; vi. Betsey, 
Oct. 25, '86, m. James Leland, of H. ; vn. Calvin, Mar. 14, '92, m. 
Elona Wiswell. 



HISCOCK, HOOKER. 105 

80. 118. Samuel, w. Mary Patridge, m. May 15, 1791; 2d w. Lydia Pratt, m. 
Apl. 8, 1802. i. Anne, Dec. 29, 1792, m. Amos Nichols, of Me. ; 
ii. Chs., Sep. 27, '9G, m. Nancy Jones, dg. of Simson J., of Med., by 
w. Abigail Hammond, and inherits the ancient homestead; in. Patridge, 
bp. Oct. 9, 1803, m. Phebe Whitney, had r. Chs., m. Martha Cooledge, 
r. Newton; n. Lydia P., m. Elbridge M. Bickford. 



81. 119. James, m. Sep. 5, 1792, Abial Nason, purchased Jonas Fisk's farm, 
2d w., Patty Adams, m. Nov. 21, 1811, dg. of Wm. A., of Sh., and b. 
Dec. 26, '8-1, r. S., had 
120. i. Lewis, bapd. Dec. 12, 1795, d. yg. ; 

129. 122. ii. James Nason, Oct. 25, 1812, m. Jano Whitney ; in. Persis, Apl. 7, 
1820, who m. Moses Babcock, of Sh. 

11G. 123. Timothy, w. Olive Mason, r. S. and Holl, i. Cretia, Nov. 3, 1794, m. 
Preston Metcalf, of Frank. ; n. Harris, Apl. 25, '97 ; 
124. in. Henry, Apl. 27, '99, and others at Holl. 

63^. 125. Jona., m. Keziah Daniels, fr. Med., r. where late John Death did, in 
Ashl., and sold the S. half of the ancient Holbrook Farm, at Death's 
Bridge, in S., which had been assigned to her as the heir of Sam. Holbrook, 
by whom she had been brought up. I. Isaac, June 23, 1774; n. Chas., 

Feb. 19, '77 ; in. Lydia, Jly. 17, '79, m. Clayes, fr. Fram. ; 

iv. Chloe, Dec. 7, 'SI ; v. Lemuel, Nov. 10, '84 ; vi. Kezia. 



122. 129. James inherits the homestead, a part of the original Hill Farm, and by w. 
Jane Whitney, m. 1835, has George A., James Whitney and Elizabeth. 

50.? 130. Jona., by w. Mercy, had at Med., Silence, Jan. 16, 1752. 

131. Jona., perhaps id. as 125, m. Kezia , and had at Med., Reuben, 

who m. Rebecca, and had at H., David, Oct. 11, 1798. 



Moses HiscOCk, m. Mary Hemingway, 1789, and had in H. i. Abigail, Oct. 
24, '89; ii. Polly, Feb. 21, '97. 



Zibeon Hooker, (b. in Medfield, son of Wm. H.), w. Sarah Barbour, r. S., 
had, i. Zibeon, m. Mary Stearns, d. Feb. 26, 1832, fr. Hopk., had, 
I. Hiram, 1805, r. Cambridgeport ; n. Mary Ann, 1806, m. Jacob 
Pratt; in. Geo. B., b. Apl. 17, 1808, m. Hanh. Kimball, r. S. ; 
iv. Laura, 1809, m. Tho. Gould, r. Nat.; v. Sybil, 1811, m. David 
Daniels, r. S. ; VI. Harrison Gr. O., 1812, m. Mira Whitney, r. H. ; 
vii. Zibeon, 1814, d. urn. '30; vm. Oliver B., 1816, r. New York; 
ix. David Stearns, 1818 ; x. Hannah T. 1819, m. Aaron Weeks, 
r. 111. ; xi. Harlow, 1S24, m. Sophronia Travis ; xn. Thankful W., 
1826, d. urn. ; xm. Sarah E., 1829, m. Lucius Cook, r. Frank. 
ii. Etsey, m. Chs. Bemis; in. Adolphus, r. Canada; iv. Brayton, d. in 
Newton, um. ; v. Harlow, r. Milton, d. without issue ; vi. Sarah, m. Wm. 
Heard, r. Newton and Fram. ; vn. Geo., m. and r. Newton and Bridge- 
water, and Newark, N. J. ; viir. Charlotte, m. Silas Warren, rs. Boston ; 
ix. Adeline, m. Oliver Hill, r. Newton ; x. Laura, d. um. 
14 



106 HOOKER, HOUGHTON, HUNT, HUNTING 

Wm. Hooker, m. Sarah Ilolbrook, had at S., i. Alone, Aug. 17, 1786. 

Zibeon Hooker, m. Sarah Barbour, 1779, had at S., i. Zibeon, Ap. 6, '80 ; 
ii. Henrietta, Nov. 29, '81 ; Adolphus, Ap. 3, '84. 



Benj. Houghton, w. Elizabeth, had at S., i. Benj., May 4, 1783 ; n. Wm. 
Boden, Feb. 23,. '85; in. Betsey, Sep. 12, '8G ; iv. Sally, Nov. 20, '88; 
v. Asaph, about '90 ; vi. Polly, do. '92 ; vn. Lucy, Jan. 10, '96. 



1. Abida Hunt, m. Phebe Pratt, July 26, 1739, had at H., 

i. Willard, May 7, 1741 ; n. Daniel, Sep. 17, 43 ; in. Abigail, Aug. 23, 
'45; iv. Lewis, Jan. 10, '47-8; v. Margery, March 4, '52 

2. Jona. Hunt, r. a shoemaker on the N. road to Hoi., and E. of the Brush 
Hill road, in a house pr. built by Dea. Bullen, w. Sarah , had at S., 

i. Sarah, Oct. 2, 1769 ; n. Nabby, July 22, 70 ; in. Miriam, March 2, 
'72 ; iv. Jona., June 26, '74 ; v. John Vining, March 25, '76. 

3. Ebenezer Hunt, m. Dorothy Whitney, May 9, 1734, '2d w., Deliverance, 
had at H., i. Ebenezer, Ap. 15, 1735 ; n. Tho., Aug. 23, '37, d. March 5, 
'44-5 ; in. Tho., May 8, '56, by w. Deliverance ; iv. Joseph, Nov. 22, '57. 

4. Henry Hunt, w. Elizabeth, had at H., i. Elizabeth, July 22, 1736; 
ii. Keuben, Dec. 11, '37. 

5. Tho. Hunt, formerly merch. in Boston, s. in S., on the ancient Pratt farm, 
1845. He was b. at Sud., the s. of Wm. H, m. Olive Puffer, and 2d, 
Miranda (Smith) Holbrook, has i. Harvey, and by 2d w., n. Andrew; 
in. Thomas. 



Joseph Hunting, w. Hanh., had at S., i. Sarah, March 5, 1764 ; n. Elizth., 
June 4, 'GG. 



HOLBROOK. 

The name of Holbrooke is ancient and distinguished ; and in the English world 
it has long since attained a wide range. It does not however occur in Doom's Book 
or ltheimer's Foedera, yet as early as the reign of Richard II, one of the name was ad- 
vanced to the order of Knighthood, and "a chev. between three martlets assigned as 
his coat of arms. Others with equal claims to distinction, or averse to the monopoly, 
either attained to the same honor or assumed the badge of having done so : for in 
books of Heraldry I find the name of Holbrooke distinguished by nine other coats of 

arms, viz., Holbroake Gu. a chev. betw. ten crosses crosslet gu. Holbrokes. 

Or. a fess. between sis crosslets, gu. Holbrook (Suffolk) Ar. a chev., betw. 

ten crosses crosslet, gu. Holbrooke, the same arms. Crest A lion 

pass, guard, tail extended ppr. — Holbrook. Or a chev. between ten crosses crosslet 
gu. — Holbrooke (Newington, Co. Kent). Az. a cross, or fretty of the first between 
four mullets of the second. — Holbrooke (Suffolk) Or. a chev. gu., surmounted 
with a cross formeo fitchee at the foot of the second. Crest — A lion's head erased, 
charged with a chev. or, as in the arms. — Holbrooke (Suffolk) Or, crusily gu. a 
bend of the second. — Holbrooke (Suffolk) Ar. a chev. between three crosses crosslet 
gu." These badges of vanity, so little esteemed by the Puritans and their republican 
descendants, have their use in a historical point of view, as indicating the original 
and early seats of the race, and may guide some future explorer of the ancestry of 
our Holbrooks in the mother country where they must have been men of character and 
consideration. Of the origin of the name I find nothing. Camden docs not mention 
it, though common in his day. This omission may be accounted for, if it was so 
obviously of local origin as to be included with names of this class : and imagination 
suggests that in a former age of belief in holy waters, there was some Holy Brooke 
from which the name was borrowed, the tradition of which might have lingered in 
his day. But I would not originate a tradition. Too long have the Holbrooks fol- 
lowed this jack-o'-lantern, believing, like other races, in their descent from three 
brothers, a story suggested, it has been thought, by nothing better, if so good, than 
the following analogy. Shem, Ham, and Japheth were religious men, so were our 
ancestors ; they came from an old world to a new one, and came by water, so did 
our fathers; there was just three of them that came, from whom the human race have 
descended ; therefore there was the sacred orthodox number of three from Old to 
New Eng., from whom each race of a common name have sprung. But the stale 
tradition that formerly concealed ignorance now exposes it; and the Holbrooks, 
better posted than some other races, may now correct legends of their ancestry ; and 
on truthful history found their claim to a more respectable origin than false tradition 
has attempted to give. 

Many Holbrooks were early in New Eng. Hitherto all attempts to trace and 
reduce them to one family have resulted in despair, with the exception of those of 
the lamented Wm. T. Harris, A. M. He had thoroughly mastered the 5 first gen- 
erations, of one branch, while I, without knowing it, was attempting the same ; and 
having, through the kindness of his bereaved father, the Librarian of Har. Univ., 
been favored with the perusal of bis MSS., I have become confirmed in the correct- 
ness of my arrangement, and added names and references which his sharper eye and 
more thorough hand had detected and recorded. Thanks to his memory. He was 
of the third generation of the same family to whom I am indebted for kindred help. 

The other families of the name of Holbrook,- not descended from Tho., and col- 
lected from what were remote parts of New Eng., I have, at the end of eight years 



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of frequent investigation, succeeded, in my own view more from circumstantial than 
documentary evidence, in reducing to the descendents of a common father, whose 
name was probably John, and he the brother and companion of Tho. No date of 
their embarkation or arrival is presumed to exist. The name first occurs at Wey- 
mouth, in 1640, and under circumstances showing that they could not then have been 
new comers. The settlement of Weymouth was attempted in 1622 ; and in 1624 
a colony of substantial settlers arrived from Weymouth in Dorsetshire, and gave 
name to the place, and in 1635 another company with a minister, and no doubt from 
the same place. With one of the latter companies probably came Tho. and John 
Holbrook, and more likely with the former. If so, Tho. must then have had one or 
two children ; and if with the latter, they might have had an embarrassing number. 
They were probably from Weymouth, 8 miles from Dorchester, from whence came 
the planters of our Dorchester; and not remote from these towns was a place, " a small 
farm," long afterward and perhaps still called "Holbrook." Who of the race will 
undertake investigations in that quarter, or pledge to a correspondent the means of 
his doing so ? 

Thomas Holbrooke, and no doubt John, settled in that part of Weymouth called 
Old Spain. It was chosen, for its harbor and peninsular form, for confining their 
cattle. As early as 1643 the stock of the planters had so increased as to render a 
removal necessary. Seekonk Prairie had been discovered, and it was resolved that 
as many as chose might remove, and that if a majority were in favor of removing, 
Mr. Newman their minister should attend them. Thomas and John Holbrook ap- 
peared in the affirmative, and in order " that the land of Rehoboth might be divided 
according to person and estate," each of them gave in their property at precisely 
£186. This indicates that they were partners. Were they Thomas and John, sen's, 
or jun's? The former might be presumed if there was not so much evidence that 
the Holbrooks of the second generation began life in good circumstances, showing that 
their fathers for their day must have been rich. Home lots at Rehoboth were 
assigned them 31, (4), 1644. But as John, jun.'s, wife died, leaving one or two 
children, Jan. 24, 1643-4, pr. after they had pledged themselves to remove and given 
in their property; and as Thomas, jun., was then young and unmarried, they had 
reasons, which Thomas and John, sen's, might not have had, for altering their purposes 
and forfeiting these lots, as they did 10 (11), 1644, by not taking possession. The 
records of Weym. chh. perished in 1644, with the removal of Mr. Newman; and 
while subsequent records refer to Thomas, sen., as one of the principal inhabitants, 
they make no mention of his brother John. Still circumstances, not easily resisted, 
point to a brother probably of that name, as an early inhabitant of W., and the 
father of a numerous family, who might have died before 1644. I have, therefore, 
in these sheets arranged the New Eng. Holbrooks as the descendants of two brothers, 

3. 1. Thomas Holbrooke. 1 (See Part I.) 
2. John ? Holbrooke. 1 (See Part II.) 



PART I. 

1. 3. Tho. Holbrooke, 1 was advanced in years when tho records of W. began and 
then had talented sons to render public service. 

In 1641, immediately after the earliest preserved records begin, he was chosen 
the second member of a board of selectmen called townsmen, and served as such in 
1645, '46, '51, '52, '54, having his brother or eldest son, John, after '47, associated 



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with him for a portion of the time. As a citizen of standing and long acquainted 
with the country, the Gen. Court in 1G49 appointed him the first member of a com- 
mittee to lay out a county highway from Weym. to Dorchester. The following is a 
copy verbatim ad literatim of his will from Suffulk Prob. 

In the n<ame of God, Amen. 

Anno Domino, Dec. 31, 16G8, Thoma3 Holbrook, of "Weymouth, in New England, 
being sick and weak in body, but of good and perfect memory, thanks be to the 
Lord, and minding the uncertain estate of this transitory life, and desiring to settle that 
estate that God hath blessed me with all, do make this my last will and testament 
in manner and form following, committing my scul to Almighty God through Christ 
my Saviour and Redeemer, and my body to decent burial, and for the settling of my 
temporal estate I do order, give and dispose the same in manner and form following. 
That is to say, first, I will that my debts and funeral expenses be truly paid out of 
my estate. 

Item, I give and bequeathe unto Jane, my beloved wife, during her life, my whole 
estate, of what quality and quantity soever the same be, at her dispose for her neces- 
sary and comfortable maintenance, and do request my son John Holbrooke and my 
son Wm. Holbrooke, and my son Tho. Holbrooke to be helpful to ray wife in assisting 
of her in what she may have occasion to dispose of for her subsistence and comforta- 
ble maintenance during her life, and give their mother the best advice, as she is 
ancient and weak of body, suitable to her necessity without being burthensome to any. 

Item, I give and bequeathe unto my endeared children all my estate, of whatever 
quality and quantity soever the same shall be, that shall remain at my wife Jane's 
decease, there being sis of them, three sons and three daughters, to be equally divided 
between them, always provided that my eldest son, John Holbrooke, shall have a 
double portion, and the rest of my estate to be equally divided, viz., unto my son, 
Tho. Holbrook, my son Wm. Holbrook, unto my daughter Anne Rennolds, unto 
my daughter Elizabeth Hatch, and unto my daughter Jane Drake, to be equally 
divided amongst them as near as may be ; and in case any or either of my sons or 
daughters should decease before my wife Jane, then the share of the deceased to 
remain to their respective children and my grandchildren. 

Item, I give unto my grandchild John Holbrooke the eldest, my sword. 

Item, I give unto my grandchild Peter Holbrooke my gun and my gray mare 
colt. Item, I give unto my grandchild Wm. Holbrook my musket. Item, I give 
and bequeathe unto all ray grandchildren that shall be living at my wife Jane's de- 
cease, two shillings apiece. Item, I do hereby make and ordain my loving wife, 
the above said Jane Holbrooke, executrix during her life, and at her decease, I do 
appoint, make and ordain executor of this my last will and testament, my loving son 
John Holbrooke, whom I do order and entreat to perform this my will, and pay tho 
legacies out of my whole estate of what shall remain at my wife's decease. 

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above 
written, as on the other side. 

The mark of Thomas [T. H.] Holbrooke. 

Published, signed and sealed in presence of 
Rebecca R. R. Burrell, 
Wm. Chase. 

Whereas Peter Holbrooke my grandchild hath been as a servant, and hath been 
helpful to me Tho. Holbrooke and ray wife Jane in our old age, for the space of 
about eight years before the date of these presents, and still remains with us as a 
dutiful child, I, Tho. Holbrooke, senr., this 31st of Dec, 1G73, do will and bequeathe 
unto my beloved grandchild Peter Holbrooke, his heirs and assignees, ray dwelling 



110 HOLBIIOOB. 

house and about three acres of orchard and arable land, situate and being in Wey- 
mouth, bounded -with Edward Kingman's land, and the River Northerly and East- 
erly, and the highway Southerly, and the lliver Westerly, or the creek descending 
from the lliver, as the said Peter Holbrooke's proper estate of inheritance. To 
have and to hold after the decease of me, Tho. Holbrooke and Jane my wife, and not 
before. And I, Tho. Holbrooke, do hereby declare not to alter in any particular 
form my aforesaid will dated this day was five years since, but in this respect as 
aforewritten concerning my beloved son and grandchild, Peter Holbrooke, which 
accordingly I do desire my son John Holbrooke as Executor in all points to fulfil. 
Dated Dec. 31, 1673. Published, signed and sealed in the presence of Tho. White, 
Wm. Chase. T. H. 

Tho. Holbrooke, d. 1674-6. His wid. Joanna, d. before April 24, 1677, 
when administration was granted his son John. He had 
10. 4. i. John, 2 Capt., b. 1617, "d. Nov. 23, 1699, aged about 82 years," [G. S.], 
m. 1st Sarah , 2d Elizabeth , 3d Mary . See Ch. i. 

5. ii. Tho./ d. 1697, who m. Joanna , and r. at Scituate, Weymouth and 

Braintree. See Cb. n. 

6. in. Wm., 2 Capt. and Dea., d. 1699; "his wid." , d. 1701, r. Scit- 
uate. See Ch. in. 

7. iv. Ann, 2 who m. Renolds ; v. Elizabeth, 2 who m. Walter Hatch, 

1650 ; vi. Jane, 2 who m. Drake. 



CHAPTER I. 



4. 10. John, 2 Capt., was a man of much consideration in his day, and in him the 
the public reposed great confidence. His independence, courage, enterprise 
and wealth are abundantly proved by records. He resided at Old Spain, in 
Weymouth, and seems to have inherited the homestead. Having previously been 
received to the church, he in 1640 took the freeman's oath. In 1648 he first served 
as selectman. In 1651 he represented W. in the Gen. Court, and was of the 
minority of 13, who May 7 of that year refused their assent to the book of ecclesi- 
astical discipline, made out by a committee and the elders of the churches. He 
was also representative in 1664, '69, '71, '72, '73. In 1668, he with two 
associates bought a tract of land 9 miles long and f m. wide, situated on the road 
between Weymouth and Middleboro'. In 1678, he purchased John Saffan's whole 
farm in Scituate, which he bought of John Hoar, then of Concord. He loaned 
money to John Williams, of Boston, (the same who had witnessed a deed for his 
reputed cousin John Holbrooke, of Roxb.), and large sums from time to time to other 
tradesmen and merchants in B., taking mortgages on houses, warehouses, &c. He 
was a great operator for those times, and so continued until the close of life. He 
sold a corn-mill in W., Jan. 20, 1698-9, the year he died. In the time of Philips' 
war he rendered signal service. He not only defended W., but with his company 
carried the war into the enemies country. On the 22d of June, 1676, he arrived at 
Concord, with 30 men from Norfolk, an extinct county, then embracing the settle- 
ments on Merrimack and Piscatequa Rivers, whom he had been sent to defend. As 
commander he drew pay for 24 men from the public treasury in June, Aug. and 
Sept. of that year; and £16 for his own services. He seems to have been much hon- 
ored, and the early age for his time at which he was called to the public service, 
indicates the standing of his family. 



IIOLBROOK. Ill 

Capt. John, m. 1st Sarah , who d. 14, (11) 1643 ; and 2d Elizabeth 

-, whod. June '25, 1688, aged 64, [G. S.], and 3d wid. Sarah Loring, 

who survived him. He had 

19. 11. i. John, 3 who m. Abigail Pierce, and s. on his father's land in Scituate; 
12. ii. Abiezer, 3 who d. um. 1671-2. His father made oath Jan. 29, 1672, to 
the appraisal of his estate at £40. His wardrobe must have been extrava- 
gant had he no property in reversion ; 

28. 13. in. Samuel, housewright, b. prior to Jan. 24, 1G44, d. Aug. or Sept. 1695, 

m. Lydia ; IV. Hannah, 3 who m. Pierce, and is no further 

reported ; v. Lois, 3 a twin, b. 12, (3) 1658, probably m. Nash ; 

16. vr. Eunice, 3 b. also 12, (3) 1658, m. Ludden ; 

17. "vn. Experience. 3 May 23, 1661, m. Edson ; 

36. 18. vni. Ichabod, 3 May 20, 1662, d. Dec. 14, 1718. 



WORSHIPFULL CAPT. HOLBROOKE'S WILL. 

I, John Holbrook, of the Town of Weymouth, in New England, being weak of body, 
but of a competent understanding and memory, do make this my last Will and Testa- 
ment, hereby revoking and annulling all former wills by me made. Firstly, com- 
mitting my soul to God in hope of eternal salvation, through the merits of Christ, 
my Saviour, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my 
executors ; and for my worldly estate I do will and dispose of as followeth, my just 
debts and funeral charges being paid. 

Imprimis, I give and bequeathe to my beloved wife, Mary Holbrook, fifty pounds 
in money, to be at her disposing, provided she accept of it in full of all demands from 
my estate, otherwise my contract with her before marriage to be made good to her in 
every respect ; and also, I give her ten pounds in money, provided she give five 
pounds thereof to her daughter, Loring. 

I give and bequeathe unto my son, John Holbrook, all my housing and lands in the 
Township of Scituate, which I purchased of Mr. John Saffin, to' be to the use and 
improvement of him, the said John Holbrook, for and during his natural life, and 
after his decease the moiety or one-half of the said houses and lands to be to the only 
proper use and improvement of his now wife Abigail, during the time she shall 
remain his widow, and no longer. The other half of the housing and land I give and 
bequeathe to the use and improvement of my grandson, John Holbrook, the son of 
my said son, John Holbrook ; and, after the decease of my said son and the widow- 
hood of his wife Abigail, I do give and bequeathe all the aforesaid housing and lands 
to my aforesaid grandson, John Holbrook, to have and to hold to him and his heirs 
forever ; always provided, that when my said grandson shall come to possess and 
enjoy the whole of the said farm, that he shall well and truly pay forty pounds sterling 
in equal proportions to the six daughters of my said son, John Holbrook ; and if any 
of them shall decease before they receive their part, then the said forty pounds to be 
paid equally to such as shall survive, viz., if any of them decease before marriage. 
I also give and bequeathe unto my son, John Holbrook, all my wearing apparel, and 
my best feather bed, my best rug and furnitures belonging to the said bed, and my 
silver tankard. Also, I give unto my granddaughter, Elizabeth, the wife of James 
Smith, five pounds sterling; also, I give unto my granddaughter, Abigail Porter, 
ten pounds sterling, to be paid by my executors within one year after my decease. 

I give and bequeathe unto my daughter-in-law, Lydia Holbrook, widow of my son 
Samuel Holbrook, deceased, for the bringing up of the children of my said son, 
Samuel Holbrook, the use and improvement of the uplands adjoining to her dwelling 
house, in the neck called Kingman's Neck, and two acres of salt meadow that I 



112 110 LB ROOK 

purchased of John Kingman, and also my three acres of salt marsh near Burying 
Island, and also one-half of three acres of salt marsh in Braintrce, lying on^the E. 
side of the Creek, going to Spheer's Farm ; also, 40 acres of land on the Westerly 
side of my land, near the Physical Spring in Weymouth ; also, the one-half of my 
land in Brantry, adjoining to Weymouth line, called by the name of Execution Land ; 
also, the one-half of my dwelling house in Boston. All which housing and lands as 
is before expressed, I give the use and improvement thereof, unto the saidLydia 
Holbrook, for her maintenance and the bringing up of the children of my said son, 
Samuel Holbrook, until my grandson, Joseph Holbrook, son of my said son, 
Samuel Holbrook, do, or might attain to the age of one-and-twenty years, and no 
longer. Also, I give unto my said daughter, Lydia Holbrook, £120, to be paid by 
my 'executors in one-fourth part of my household stuff and cattle, and the remainder 
in money, to make up the said £120 : always provided, that the said Lydia Holbrook 
do pay to her three daughthers, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah Holbrook, daughters of 
said son, Samuel Holbrook, each of them £40 when they shall attain to the age of one- 
and-twenty years, or marriage, which shall first happen. TT « , j 
e I "ive and bequeathe unto my grandsons, Samuel Holbrook, John Holbrook and 
Joseph Holbrook, sons of my said son, Samuel Holbrook, all the aforesaid lands and 
meadows in Weymouth and Brantrey, (left for the use and improvement of the said 
Lydia Holbrook aforesaid), to be divided into equal parts or shares to my said three 
grandsons, when my said grandson, Joseph Holbrook shall, or might attain to the 
aW of one-and-twenty years. The said Samuel, John and Joseph, paying to their 
mother, Lydia Holbrook, each of them 30s. per annum, during her natural life. 

I give and bequeathe to my grandson, Abiah Holbrook, son of my son, Samuel 
Holbrook, the one-half or moiety of my house and land in Boston, when he shall 
attain to the age of one-and-twenty years, he paying to his mother, Lydia Holbrook 
30s per annum, during her natural life. I also give and bequeathe unto my said 
daughter, Lydia Holbrook, half an acre of salt meadow, lying in the neck called 
Kinsman's Neck, that was formerly my father, Thomas Holbrooke's, to her and her 
heirs forever. And further it is my will, that if my said daughter Lydia shall dis- 
pose of herself in marriage, that there shall be no strip nor waste made upon any ot 
the aforesaid lands any more than what may be needful for her own firing or repara- 
tion of her own housing, or fencing of the said lands. 

I give unto my son-in-law, Simon Whitmarsh, £20 in money. 

I give unto my grandson, Simon Whitmarsh, £20 in money. 

I give unto my granddaughter, Ruth Darby, £15 in money. I give unto my 
granddaughter, Mary Jackson, £15 in money. _ 

All the aforesaid sums to be paid by my executors within one year alter my 

I »ive to my daughter, Hannah Pierce, £50 in money, to be at her disposal as she 
shalfsee cause. Also, I give unto my grandson, Azarikum Pierce, £lo in money. 
Also I give to Ephraim Pierce, jun., £15 in money. I give to my granddaughter, 
Rachel Peck, £5 in money. All which legacies are to be paid by my executors 
within one year after my decease, which shall be in part payment of a bond under the 
hands and seals of Ephraim Pierce and Azarikum Pierce, bearing date June 14, lb J/ . 

I <nve unto my grandson, Joseph Nash, £50 in money. Also, I give unto my 
granddaughter, Elizabeth Nash, £25 in money, to be paid in one year after my 

decease. * 

I give unto my grandson, Benjamin Ludden, £10 in money. I give to my 
grandson, John Ludden, £10 in money. I give to my grandson, Joseph Ludden, 
£10 in money. All the aforesaid legacies given to the Luddens, to be paid bymiy 
executors, as they shall attain to the age of one-and-twenty years. I give unto my 
grandson, James Ludden, one acre of salt meadow, lying on the Eastern neck which 



II OL BROOK. 113 

was formerly his grandfather's, James Ludden's. I give unto my granddaughter, 
Eunice Ludden, £15, at her day of marriage, or when she shall attain the age of 18 
years, which shall first happen. 

I give unto my grandson, /Joseph Edson, £15 in money. To my grandson, 
Josiah E,dson, £15 in money. To my granddaughter, Experience Edson, £40 in 
money. All which legacies given to the Edsons, to he paid by my executors, as 
they shall attain to the age of one-and-twenty years, the sons, and the daughters, 
eighteen years. 

I give and bequeathe unto my son, Ichabod, my dwelling house in Weymouth, 
that I now live in, with all the out-housing, orchard, and lands adjoining, by estima- 
tion between 40 and 50 acres, and also, all my salt marsh, lying in the neck, called 
Kingman's Neck, not before given ; also, all the remainder of my lands near the 
Physical Spring, not before given, also, all the 4 acres of salt marsh lying on the 
East side of the back river, in Weymouth. All which houses and lands I give unto 
my son, Ichabod, during his natural life, and to his wife, Sarah, as long as she 
remains his widow ; and after his decease and his wife's widow's estate, I give and 
bequeathe the said housing, orchard and lands adjoining, with the salt marsh, in the 
neck called Kingman's Neck, unto my grandson, Abiezer Holbrook, son of my son, 
Ichabod Holbrook, to him and his heirs forever. 

I give unto my grandson, David Holbrook, son of my son, Ichabod Holbrook, the 
aforesaid salt meadow, lying Easterly of the back river, and the aforesaid land near 
the Physical Spring, after the decease of my son, Ichabod Holbrook and his wife's 
widow's estate, to be to him and his heirs forever. I give to my son, Ichabod, the 
one-half of my house and land in Boston, during his natural life, and to his wife as 
long as she shall remain his widow ; and after his decease and his wife Sarah's widow's 
estate, I give the said half of the house and land at Boston, unto his son, Elisha Hol- 
brook, and his heirs forever. 

I give unto the reverend Mr. Samuel Torry, Pastor of the Church of Weymouth, 
£5 in money. And further it is my will, that if any of the grandchildren shall 
decease before they receive their portions, that then the portion of the deceased shall 
be equally divided amongst the surviving brothers and sisters of the same parents. 

And it is my will, that if my Indian servant, Anthony, doth behave himself well, 
that he have his freedom in 12 years after my decease. And further it is my will, 
that if my wife see cause not to live in my house, she shall have what provisions she 
shall have occasion for her own use, for three months after my decease. All the 
remainder of my estate, whether real or personal, wheresoever it may be found that 
is not before given by this my last Will, I give and bequeathe unto my son, Ichabod 
Holbrook, and his heirs forever. And do hereby ordain and constitute my son, John 
Holbrook, and my son, Ichabod Holbrook, with Ephraim Hunt, Esq., to be my 
executors to this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby give unto the said 
Ephraim Hunt, £5. And I do desire my loving friends, John Rogers and Joseph 
Dyer, and my brother, Stephen French, to be overseers to see to the performance of 
this my last Will and Testatment, and do give to each of them 20s., in remem- 
brance of my love. 

In witness that this is my last Will and Testament, I do hereby make void and 
null all former wills by me made whatsoever, and do sign, seal, declare and publish 
this to be my last Will and Testament, the 12th day of July, 1699. 

The mark S of John Holbrook, and a seal. 

Signed, sealed and published, in presence of John Pratt, Ephm. Burrell, Joseph 
Drake. [Suff. Prob., xiv, in.] 

11. 19. John," s. in Seituate on the ancient Hoar farm, bequeathed by his father ; 
m. Abigail Pierce, dau. of Capt. Michael P., who was slain at Attleboro', 
15 



114 HO LB ROOK. 

Gore [Cumberland] in his desperate fight with the Indians in Philip's war, 
had i. Tho., 4 b. Jan. 15, 1671, at Wey., d. prior to 1699; II. Elizabeth, 4 
Feb. 2, 1672, at Scituate, and alive 1G99; in. Abigail, 4 May 11, 1675, 
and alive 1699 ; iv. Experience, 4 Feb. 22, 1677, and alive 1699 ; 
24. v. Hannah, 4 Jan. 11, 1679, m. Josiah Turner, 1700 ; vi. Sarah, 4 July 11, 
1680, and alive 1699 ; vn. Deborah, 4 Aug. 22, 1683, m. Joseph Briggs, 
1703-4. 
42. 27. vin. John, 4 Nov. 19, 1686, m. Sarah Chrittenden, May 3, 1709. 

13. 28. Samuel, 3 sergt., was admitted to the freeman's oath, Oct. 12, 1681, — 
enjoyed the confidence of his kinsmen — was appointed by his uncle Tho., 
July 25, 1695, to see to the execution of his will — d. intestate before Oct. 3, 
of the same year, when administration was granted to his wid. Lydia. [Suf. 
Prob., vol. 11, p. 168 and vol. 17, p. 284.] He pr. settled near or with 

his father, Capt. John, and had by wife Lydia , at Weym. 

29. i. Elizabeth, 4 Sep. 30, 1684, m. Wales ; n. Mary, 4 Nov. 18, 1686, 

d. yg. ; in. Sarah, 4 m. Wm. Hunt, 1713. 

53. 32. iv. Samuel, 4 Feb. 19, 1688, m. Hannah Adams, aunt to Gov. Adams. 

57. 33. v. John, 4 Dea., Apl. 29, 1690, " d. Jan. 28, 1762, in his 72d yr." 
34. vi. Joseph, 4 Jan. 26, 1694, d. prior to July 11, 1711. 

65. 35. vn. Abiah, 4 who inherited half of his grd. father's house and land in Boston. 

18. 36. Ichabod, 3 inherited the homestead of Capt. Holbrook, at Old Spain, ra. 

Sarah Turner, who d. a widow, Dec. 20, 1739. He had, 
71. 37. i. Abiezer, 4 May 7, 1689, d. Feb. 17, 1761, m. Ruth Vinson. 
80. 38. ii. David, 4 Sep., 1690, m. Marcy Pittey, 1716 ; in. Sarah, 4 Jan. 13, 

1694, d. Oct. 10, 1725 ; iv. Elisha, 4 inherited half his grd. father's house 

and land in Boston. 
86. 41. v. John, 4 Nov. 28, 1699, five days after the death of Capt. John his grd. 

father. 

27. 42. John, 4 m. Sarah Chrittenden, May 3, 1709, and inherited the estate in 

Scituate, bequeathed to him by his grd. father, Capt. John, and had, 
43. i. John, 5 June 13, 1710, and removed to Maine; n. Tho., 5 Apl. 7, 1712, 

died May 1, 1712, at S. 
91. 45. in. Tho., 5 June 24, 1713, d. 1761, m. Margaret Doane. 

173. 46. iv. Elisha, 5 Dea., May 25, 1716, m. Sarah , 1742 ; r. Wellflcet. 

99. 47. v. Abiezer, 5 Sep. 16, 1719; vi. Martha, 5 Nov. 11, 1721; vn. Abigail, 5 

Apl. 7, 1724, m. Jeremiah Bickford, Sep. 19, '48. 
105. 50. vin. Ezekiel, 5 May 29, 1727, m. Martha Mayo ; ix. Lucy, 5 Jan. 15, 1729, 

m. Elisha Bickford, Sep. 19, '48. 
110. 52. x. Naaman 5 Hn. 



32. 53. Samuel, 4 settled in Boston, as a cordwainer, m. Aug. 1710, Hannah Adams, 
b. Jan. 24, 1685, dau. of Capt. John Adams, and aunt to Gov. Samuel A. 
He d. intestate ; and administration was granted his wid., Hannah, Dec. 4, 
1721, [Suff. Prob., 22, 149.] He had 

i. Hannah, 5 May 19, 1712, bap. at Weym., June 23, '12 ; n. Samuel, 5 
A. M., b. ab. 1714, who had Samuel Adams, of Boston, appointed his 
guardian, May 12, 1726, [Suff. Prob., 24, 248] grad. at II. Col., 1734, 
was a member of the Fire Society in Boston, 1738, and d. a " gent.," 
intestate, and administration on his estate was granted Abijah Adams, 
Oct. 24, 1706. He left only classical books and plate appraised at 
£38 ; was pr. unm., [Suff. Prob, 65. 200] : in. Joseph, 5 b. ab. '19, d. yg. 



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33. 57. John, 4 Dea., was received a member of 2d Cbh., in Braintree, March 26, 
1721, who elected him Dea., Oct. 13, 1742, and whom he served in this 
office with "good acceptance" 20 years. He made his will, Feb. 24, 1761, 
which was proved, Apl. 12, '62, and administration granted his wid. Sarah, 
and sons, John and Samuel. The land on which he lived he bought of 
Benj. Ludden. His estate appraised at £131. 

114. 58. i. John, 5 Dea., Dec. 20, 1715 ; n. Sarah, 5 Oct. 15, 1718, buried May 7, 
1720; in. Samuel, 5 July 15, 1720, and baptized the same day, d. Aug., 1730; 
iv. Joseph, 5 Apl. 14, 1722, d. Aug. 29, 1730 • v. Sarah, 5 March 4, 1724, 
m. Josiah White, of Boston, 1744 ; vi. Mary, 5 Mar. 5, 1725-6, d. Aug. 11, 
1730 ; vii. Timothy, 5 May 12, 1728, his intention of marriage to Hannah 
White entered, Feb. 1, 1753, rm. pr. to Ct. ; vin. Elizabeth, 5 July 2, 1730, 
m. Samuel Ward, 1752 ; ix. Samuel, 5 Dea., June 4, 1732, m. Elizabeth 
Niles, dau. of Hon. Samuel N, r. Lebanon, Ct. Judge Niles and lady d. 
at his house in L., at extremely advanced ages. Deacon Samuel had no 
child. ; x. Molly, 5 May 28, 1734. She or Lucy m. Josiah Lincoln, 
xi. Hannah, 5 Apl. 11, 1736, d. May 15, 1736; 
64. xii. Lucy, 5 Nov. 28, 1739, baptized Dec. 2, '39. 

35. 65. Abiah, 1 m. , and settled in Boston, where he inherited a bequest 

from his honored grd. father, and had, i. Abiah, 5 who m. Kebecca Ingalls,? 
Mar. 20, 1745, and d. 1769, without issue. He was a schoolmaster and 
ingenious penman and taught last in the S. District in Bos. He made his 
will, May 14, 1768, giving his estate, appraised July 7, 1769, at £1227, 14s. 
8d. to his wid. Rebecca, she to pay £20 per annum for the support of each 
of his parents during their lives ; and on her death or 2d marriage, he 
ordered bis estate to be equally divided to his surviving brothers and 
sisters, and nephew Abiah Holbrook, s. of hisbr. Elisha, late of Kittery, Me. 
His wid. Bebecca, by her will, probated Jan. 14, 1794, gave to her br. (in- 
law) Samuel Holbrook's children, Samuel, Elizabeth, Amelia, Mary and 
Sally, £25 each; to her husband's sister, " Mary " Storer, £75 ; to his sister 
" Mary " [Elizabeth?] Adams, £75 ; to her cousins, Geo., Mary and Josiah 
Burroughs, £25 each ; and to her cousin (husband's nephew) Abiah Hol- 
brook, £50 ; her apparel, plate, &c, to her adopted dau., Bebecca Gray, and 
on conditions to descend to her niece, Elizth. Perry; and to Har. Col. an 
alphabetical piece of penmanship, called knot-work, written in all the hands 
of Gr. Britain, by her husband, on which he was 7 years engaged in seasons 
of leisure, and which he valued at £100 and ordered her to give, or in case 
of necessity, offer for sale ; and 6rst to Mr. John Hancock. 

67. ii. Elisha, 5 who d. at Kittery, prior to 1768, leaving a s. Abiah. 

68. in. Samuel, 5 who r. in Boston, m. Elizabeth Williams, of Boxb. Sep. 1, 
1755, had, Abiah, 6 Jan. 22, '64, pr. d.yg. ; n. Samuel? m. Elizabeth? 

iv. Amelia? v. Mary? vi. Sally. 6 

69. iv. Mary, 5 who m. Storer ; v. Elizabeth, 5 who m. John Adams, jun., 

Feb. 15, 1759, of Bos. 



37. 71. Abiezer, 4 a weaver, settled in Weymouth, m. Buth Vinson, Apl. 23, 1715, 
who d. Oct. 8, 1751. He made his will Jan. 3, 1753, which was proved 
Mar. 27, 1761. He had, i. Buth, 5 July 15, 1715, m. Doct, Nathaniel 
White, Apl. 15, 1742; n. Hannah, 5 July 12, 1717; in. Deborah, Sep. 15, 
1718, d. yg. ; iv. Elisha, 5 Mar. 27, 1722, an E. by Buth Turner, had 

Elisha, Oct. 1, 1761; 
v. Sarah, 5 May 4, 1720 ; vi. Ann, 5 Jan. 4, 1724, m. Gilbert Brooks. 



116 HOLBllOOK. 

119. 77. vii. Abiezer, 5 Oct. 15, 1725, m. Hanh. Trask and Sarah Chapman. 
123. 78. viii. Josiah, 5 Sop. 2, 1727, in. Sarah Porter. 

79. ix. Mercy, 5 Feb. 24, 1731, m. John Bargery, 1750. 

38. 80. David, 1 m. 1716, Marcy Pittey, settled in Weymouth, and removed to 

Braintree, and had, 
129. 81. i. David, 5 June 26, 1717, m. Mary Haydcn, and 2d, wid. Mary Jones. 
140. 82. ii. Ichabod, 5 Mar. 12, 1719, m. Hannah Hayden. 
147. 83. in. Nehemiah, 5 May 16, 1722, d. Apl. 4, '52, m. Christian Thayer. 

84. iv. Mary, 5 Nov. 21, 1726, m. Zeb. Howard, r. Kandolph ; 

85. v. Ruth, 5 bap., Dec. 13, 1730, m. pr. Tower, r. B. 

41. 8G. John, 4 Dea., inherited, it is presumed, the ancient seat of the family at Old 
Spain in Weymouth, m. Jan. 6, 1725--6, Sarah Hunt. Did she d. as his 
wid., 1783? See Ch. III. No. 39. He made his will Mar. 1, 1767, giv- 
ing his wid. 2 cows, 2 feather beds, all his household movables, and authority 
to sell parts of his lands if the produce of the estate assigned her was not 
adequate to her comfortable maintenance. His entire estate he gave to be 
equally divided to four children. John, Nathaniel and Jirah were appointed 
Execrs. He had, i. Sarah, 5 Nov. 8, 1726, d. yg. ; n. Sylvanus, 5 Aug. 27, 
1728, d. yg. 

151. 87. in. John, 5 June 7, 1730, m. Sibyl Lane, of Hing., 1760 ; iv. Joanna," 
Mar. 1, 1732, unm. in 1767 ; v. Lydia, 5 Sep. 3, 1734, d. prior to '67, m. 
Capt. Sol. Lovell, and had Lydia, brought up by her grd. father, John H. 

153. 89. vi. Jirah, 5 Oct. 23, 1737, d. March 10, 1812, m. Hannah Gray, and s. in 
Boston ; vn. Daniel, 5 bap. Feb. 22, 1740, pr. died young. 

156. 90. viii. Nathaniel, 5 Feb. 20, 1741, m. Susanna Howard, from Braintree: 



45. 91. Tho., 5 settled in Eastham, now Wellfleet, m. Jan. 2, 1734-5, Margaret 
Doane, who survived to the age of ab. 95, and d. ab. 1808. He had, 
I. Margaret, 6 Dec. 1, 1735; n. Jerusha Doane, 6 Jan. 18, 1737--8. 

159. 94. in. Tho., 6 Jan. 30, 1739-40, d. 1806, m. Hannah Harding; iv. Isaiah, 6 
May 23, 1742, m. Price Hatch and was drowned ; v. Abial, 6 a dau., May 
10, 1745 ; vi. John, 6 Oct. 18, 1748, m. Ruth Hamlin, '71, rm. to Me. 
vn. Isaac Doane, 6 Feb. 18, 1751, d. yg. 



47. 99. Abiezer, 5 m. Hannah , r. at Eastham, and had, i. Abiezer, 6 Aug. 20, 

1741; ii. Jesse, 6 July 24, 1743 ; in. Jona., 6 July 21, 1745, m. Mercy Covel, 
'79, and had Daniel; iv. Elizabeth, 6 Oct, 14, 1748 ; v. Lucy, 6 Dec. 4, 1750. 

50. 105. Ezekiel, 6 m. Oct. 10, 1751, Martha Mayo, and was town clerk and 
treasurer of Wellfleet, 1774-1800, and had i. Sarah, 6 Apl. 5, 1752 ; 
ii. Marcy, 6 Oct. 1, 1753 ; in. Martha, 6 Apl. 20, 1757 ; 
iv. Samuel, 6 Feb. 24, 1759, and pr. others. 

52. 110. Naaman 5 was a gent, of education, and well informed in the political ques- 
tions of his day. He was delegated by the whigs of Wellfleet to the first 
Provisional Congress that met at Salem, Oct. 5, 1774, and repeatedly repre- 
sented his fellow citizens in the Gen. Court. He is reported to have left de- 
scendants, but not recorded in W. or vicinity. I. Naaman, 6 jun., whose 
marriage with Mary Cobb, of Barnstable, was entered Aug. 9, 1779, is 
supposed to have been his son ; n. Eliphalet, 6 whose do. with Mary Covel 
was do. at W., Oct. 31, 1771, might have been another son ; in. John 6 , of 
W., who m. Ruth Smith, 1778, was perhaps another son, or John, No. 97. 



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58. 114. John, 5 the 2d Dea. of this name in the 2d Chh. of Braintree, was chosen 
to this office Feb. 8, 1761, a few months before the death of his father. Her' 
and his brother, Dea. Samuel, sold 14 acwjs on the road fr. B. to Bridge- 
water, May 20, 1705. He m. June 7, 1741, Mary Hunt ; had at B., 
i. Joseph, Oct. 30, 1741, d. Feb. 22, 1741-2; 
ii. Hannah, 6 b. and bap. Mar. 20, 1742, m. Urben Bates, of Weym. 

322. 115. in. John, Col., June 20, 1745, d. Oct. 13, 1802, m. Anna Wild ; 

iv. Betty, 6 Feb. 15, 1747-8, pr. d. '48-9 ; v. Sarah, 6 b. 1749, bap. Apl. 
'50, d. um. ; vi. Mary," 1753, m. Cpt. James Pratt, of Weym., for 2d w., 
and had 2 children. 

77. 119. Abiezer, 5 m. Hannah Trask, June 28, 1751, who d. Jly. 1, '73, a. 43; 

and 2d, Sarah Chapman, in 1777, and had at Weym. 
177. 120. i. Elisha, 6 Nov. 4, 1752, m. Sarah Burrell ; n. Silvanus," Nov. 14, 

1755, d. yg. ; in. Kuth, 6 Aug. 22, 1758. 
184. 122. iv. Silvanus, 6 Aug. 15, 1760, m. Lucy Eipley. 

78. 123. Josiab, 5 m. Sarah Porter, 1762, and had at Weymouth, i. Sarah, 6 Dec. 

14, 1762; ii. Hannah, 6 Jan. 19, 1705; in. Eliphalet/' (" Lifee,") Feb. 

15, 1768, m. Susannah Harding, Apl. 18, 1811, rm. West ; iv. John, 6 June 
6, 1772; kept a shoe store in Bos., and rm. West; v. Molly, 6 Sep. 13, 
1776, m. Ford, and rm. West. 

81. 129. David, 5 was received as jun., to the 2d chh. in Braintree, Jan. 2, 1757, 
m. Mary Hayden, Nov. 19, 1741, who was b. June 9, 1722, and reed, to 
the same chh. Dec. 29, 1745, d. Sep. 23, 1756. He m. 2d w., Mary Jones, 
and as D. jun. bought land in B., 1766--67, made his will Sep. 1, '77, which 
was proved Mar. 19, '82. He, " gent.," gave his wid. Mary the third of his 
estate, and the rest to be equally divided to his five sons, and they to pay in 
one year after his decease, £100 to each of his six daughters. His estate 
was appraised at £3,297, 7s. 8d. He had i. Mary, 6 Dec. 25, 1742, m. 

Abiezer Packard ; n. Hannah, 6 May 31, 1744, m. Shepard ; in. Sarah, e 

Jan. 11, 1745, m. Stephen Pennim^n, Esq. 
133. iv. David, 6 Feb. 1, 1747-8, m. Mehitabel Soper, r. B., had a family not 

yet reported ; v. Lydia, 6 Dec. 21, 1749, m. Tho. Hollis, r. B. 
135. vi. Jona, 6 Nov. 1, 1751, m. Esther Hollis, r. B., had only Esther. 

351. 136. vii. James, 6 Esq., Sep. 25, 1753, m. Bhoda Vinton, r. B. ; rat Hittee, 6 
Aug. 12, 1755, m. Joseph Allen, r. B. ; x. Ruth, bap. Oct. 16, 1757, d. 
yg. ; xi. Buth, 6 bap. Nov. 11, 1759, d. um. ; xn. Moses, 6 bap. Nov. 8, 1761, 
d. um. ; xin. Caleb, d. um., a. 27, and his estate, May 31, 1790, was ap- 
praised at £284, his brother David being administrator. 

82. 140. Ichabod, 5 was with his wife, Hannah Hayden, received to the 2d chh. in 

Braintree, 1756, and had i. Hannah, Oct. 19, 1746, pr. d. 1749. 

337. 141. ii. Ichabod, 6 May 26, 1748, m. Elizabeth (Mann) Niles. 

344. 142. in. Ebenezer, 6 Mar. 25, 1749-50, m. Betsey Hayden, r. B. ; iv. Han- 
nah, 6 Dec. 5, 1751, m. Gideon Stetson, r. Randolph. 

347. 143. v. Tho., 6 Oct. 7, 1754, m. Sarah Tower ; vi. Nathaniel, bap. Oct, 8, 
1758, r. in B. 1796, d. in Rand., bad i. Nathl. ; ir. Benj. ; in. son ; 
vn. Abel, 6 bap. Oct. 18, 1761, r. in B. 1799, m. Betsey, had i. Calvin; 
ii. Wm. ; in. Abel. 

83. 147. Nehemiah, 5 m. Christian Thayer, May 10, 1744, and 1745 was received, 

with her, into the 2d chh. in Braintree ; d. intestate, and administration 



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was granted his wid., Christian, May 15, 1752; and James Penniraan, 

Mar. 6, '53, was appointed guardian of his three children. She m. 2d, 

French, of Sto. He had 
148. i. Nehemiah, 6 May 6, 1745, reed, of his grd. father, David, Apl. 30, 
1763, a deed of half his house and 5 acres in B. 
318. 149. ii. Wm., 6 Apl. 2, 1747, d. Apl. 26, 1808, at Stoughton ; in. Elizabeth, 6 
Dec. 25, 1749, d. urn. 

87. 151. John, 5 m. Sybil Lane, of Hingham, 1760, and had at Weym. 

i. John, 11 Jly. 10, 1761, bap. Nov. 28, 1762; and, perhaps n. A son, bap. 
at Stough., Sep. 6, 78. 

89. 153. Jirah, 5 Yeoman, m. May 28, 1767, Hannah Gray, of Boston, where he 
settled, and held the offices of hay inspector and constable for many years, 
and was in office at the time of his decease, Mar. 10, 1812. In 1796 he was, 
with Amos Lewis, mercht., and Moses Eayers, appointed guardian of Mary 
Gray. He had i. Hannah, 6 Aug. 1, 1768; n. John," Oct. 27, '69, d.; 
in. John, 6 b. 1770, d. Jly. 31, 1822, a. 52, m. Priscilla Kittel, Oct. 7, 
1792, d. Sep. 20, 1820, a. 47. He was much of his life in the service 
of Boston Banks, and had i. Anna, 7 Mar. 24, 1794, d. Dec. 3, 1794 ; 
n. John, 7 Nov. 19, 1795, d. urn. ; in. Mary, 7 Jan. 4, 1798, m. David Ab- 
bot of Concord, N. H., had Mary P. 8 James M. 8 (d.), Joseph M. 8 Eliza- 
beth M. 8 ; iv. Asa Payson, 7 Jly. 15, 1818, d. um. ; v. Hannah, 7 Jly. 
10, 1802, m. Tho. Palmer, rs. Bos., has Elizabeth G. 8 Tho. H. 8 Wm. 
H. 8 Benj. 8 and Geo. P. 8 ; vi. James K., 7 June 25, 1804, d. Sep. 20, 
1805 ; vii. Elizabeth K., 7 June 30, 1806, d. um. ; vm. Sarah M., 7 
Nov. 6, 1808, d. Oct. 18, 1809 ; ix. James, 7 Jly. 15, 1810, m. Mary 
Tyler, rs. at Brooklyn, Ct., has James 8 Mary 8 ; x. Sarah K., 7 Apl. 9, 
1812, d. Jan. 4, 1832; xi. Ann Gray, 7 Feb. 22, 1814, m. Martha 
Haward, had John Hurd. 8 
iv. Edward, 6 Dec. 11, 1772, d. Feb. 28, 1847, a. 74. He settled in Bos- 
ton as a merchant, and for upwards of 50 years conducted business on Long 
and T Wharves, in which he was Engaged at the time of his death. His charac- 
ter as a business man is still appreciated by surviving acquaintances, and may 
be inferred from records that will be consulted by those of another age. He 
m., Jan. 1, 1797, Hannah Lillie, dg. of Daniel L., of Bos., shipbuilder, who. d. 
May 23, 1804, a. 25 ; and 2d, Hepbsibah Goodrich, June 7, 1809, dg. of 
Ezekiel G. of Lunenburgh, and had i. Edwd., 7 Nov. 14, 1800, d. Apl. 23, '02; 
n. Edward, 7 Apl. 5, 1804, who succeeds his father in business on L.Wf.; 
in. Emily, 7 Mar. 28, 1810, m. Nathan W. Baker, of Brooklyn, Ct. ; 
iv. George, 7 Oct. 18, 1811, m. Jan. 15, 1837, Elizabeth Shannon, rs. 
Boston, had 1. Sarah Elizabeth 8 Oct. 15, 1837 ; 2. Frances Louisa 8 
Sep. 19, '40, d Nov. 6, '40 ; 3. Helen Louisa 8 Nov. 15, '42, d. 
Jan. 6, '43 ; 4. Maria Louisa 8 Apl. 17, '44 ; 5. Mary Shan- 
non 8 also Apl. 17, '44, d. May 29, '44 ; 6. James Shannon 8 
Dec. 31, '46; 7. Georgianna 8 Aug. 31, '48; 8. Ghs. Edward 8 
Sep. 7, '51, d. Jan. 9, '52 ; 9. Mary Shannon 8 , Apl. 22, '54. 
v. Eliza Ann, 7 Feb. 27, 1813 ; vi. Louisa/ May 7, 1814 ; vn. Charles 
Lowell, 7 Col., May 5, 1816, rs. a banker at Bos., m. Oct. 14, 1847, 
Mary P. Robinson, b. Oct. 14, 1826, dg. of Wm. R., of New York, by 
w. Julia Ann Locee, and had Henry Warner, Sept. 17, '48 : 
vm. Henry Ware, 7 Mar. 18, 1818, d. at N. Orleans, Sep.' 17, 1841. 
His remains were forwarded, and now repose in the family burial place 
at Mt. Auburn. 



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v. Sarah, Nov. 1G, 1774 ; vi. Elizabeth, Feb. 27, 77, d. Nov. 4, '78 ; 

vir. Elizabeth, Jan. 9, '79, d. ab. 1822; vin. Mary, and Frances, Dec. 
24, '81. Both died soon after birth. 



90. 15G. Nathaniel,"' m. wid. Susanna Howard, 1777, fr. Braintree, r. Weym., had 
i. John, Nov. 24, 1777. Did he s. in Bos. ? See Part i. Ch. m., No. 45. 

A John, of Weym., in. Hannah , and had I. Harriet, 179G, at 

Bos. ; n. John, Apl. 18, 1801. 

Another John m. Sarah, pr. Peterson, 1 and bad i. Elizabeth, Oct. 17, 

1801, at Weym. ; n. Evin, Feb. 14, '04. 
ii. Susanna, bap. Dec. 17, 1779 ; in. Betsey, bap. Apl. 20, 1783. 

94. 159. Tho.,°m. Hannah Harding, who d. June 4, 1806, a. G4 ; and 2d, 
Jerusha Sweet, Oct. 19, 1806, r. at Wellfleet, and had I. Lucy, 7 Apl. 12, 
1762, m. Lem. Newcomb; n. Hannah, 7 Sep. 25, 1764, m. Samuel Baker, 
1781. 

188. 162. in. Jesse, 7 Cpt., Oct. 28, 1766, d. Aug. 28, 1836, m. Temperance 
Higgins ; 

197. 163. iv. Tho., 7 Mar. 2, 1769, and alive 1854, m. Thankful Atwood ; 

205. K')4. v. Joseph, 7 Aug. 6, 1771, d. 1852, m. Polly Jenkins, fr. Barnst ; 

214. 165. vi. Anthony, 7 Aug. 1, 1773, d. Jly. 6, 1810, m. Mary Eaton ; 

219. 166. vn. Solomon, 7 June 20, 1776, d. May 20, 1807, m. Thankful Rich ; 
vin. Huldah, 7 June 10, 1779, m. Freeman Bacon ; ix. Eunice, 7 Nov. 11, 
1781, m. Cpt. Robert Higgins, r. Wellfleet; s. Sally. 7 Oct. 24, 1784, d. 
Mar. 18, 1855, m. Stephen Atwood, r. Maiden; xi. Allen, 7 Oct. 8, 1788, 
d. Jan. 12, 1800. 



97. 170. John, m. , and is reported to have been the father of i. Isaiah, 7 who 

m. in 1771, Tabitha Chapman, and had at W. Tabitha,~Dec. 31, 1772, and 
Betsey, in 1777 ; n. John, 7 who m. Ruth Hamlin in 1771, and pr. Ruth 
Smith, in 1778. 



46. 173. Elisha, 5 Dea., m. Sarah , 1742, and is reported to have been the 

father of i. Elisha, who m. Priscilla Newcomb, b. Nov. 19, 1771, and pr. 
2d, Ann Green, 1776, at Wellfleet. 
231. 175. n. Joseph, jun., who m. Abigail Bacon ; 
224. 17G. in. David, b. Mar. 30, 1750-51, m. Hannah Hopkins. 

120. 177. Elisha, m. 1775, Sarah Burrell, fr. Hingh., r. at Weym., bad i. Elisha, 7 
Jly. 31, 1777 ; n. Samuel", 7 Aug. 26, 1779 ; m. Sally, 7 Nov. 4, 1781 ; 
iv. Hannah, 7 bap. Jly. 11, 1784; v. Sophia, 7 b Apl. 30, 1787 ; vi. Abiezer,' 
Dec. 8, 1791. 



122. 184. Silvanus, m. Lucy Ripley, Jan. 9, 1783, r. Weym., had i. Silvanus, 7 
June 14, 1785 ; n. Lemuel,' 7 Sep. 10, 1791; in. Dan., 7 Apl. 4, 1796, m. 
Lydia Clapp, June 18, 1818; and 2d, wid. Hannah Knights, rs. Weym., 

had i. Lydia, 8 Feb. 7, 1819 ; n. James Harvey 8 Oct. 8, '20 ; 

in. Elizabeth 8 Sep. 4, '23 ; iv. Richard M 8 Jan. 20, '28 ; v. Charles 

F. 8 Jan. 4, '30. 

1G2. 188. Jesse, 7 Cpt., was a strong, athletic man, whose weight at one time wag 
350 lbs. In early life he belonged to " the Seed Corn Gang of Whalers," 
and on one voyage killed 52 sperm whales. His skill obtained him employ 
ment by a London company, to teach them the art, and he sailed for six ys. 



1 20 HOLBROOK. 

from L. in their employ. After his return in 1794, he s. at Hampden, Me., 
•where he built the ship Hampden, sailed in her as master for Amsterdam, 
and was engaged by the French government to convey troops to Louisiana. 
After receiving 300 men on board, he, with 15 other convoys, was blockaded 
by an English fleet, and frozen in for the winter. In the mean time, the 
government of France sold La. to U. S., and in the spring ordered the troops 
to debark ; and neither paid him for their maintenance while on board, nor 
for the losses that resulted from the non-performance of the contract. Is it 
too late for his heirs to prefer a claim ? Capt. Jesse returned in the follow- 
ing summer, and removed his family back to W., where he d. a member of 
the Methodist chh., a. 70. He m. Temperance Higgins, and had at Wellfleet, 
i. Nancy, 8 Oct. 23, 1788, m. Freeman Snow ; and 2d, Rev. Joshua Hall, 
and rs. at Frankfort, Me., n. Jesse, 8 Apl. 2, 1791, who died young; 
in. Hannah H.,« Mar. 31, 1795, m. Hon. Richard Libby, r. at E. Boston ; 

240. 191. iv. Joseph, 8 Col., Aug. 21, 1797, m. Mary Rich ; 

244. 192. v. Robert Higgins, 8 May 24, 1799, m. Lurana Higgins; vi. Paulina, 
Apl. 23, 1801, m. Martin Dill, (d.) ; vn. Sophrona, 8 Aug. 5, 1805, m. 
Calvin Snow, r. Hampden, Me. ; vm. Jemima, 8 Oct. 31, 1808 (d.), m. 
Eldad Hopkins, r. H., Me. 

163. 197. Tho., 7 m. Thankful Atwood, rs. at Wellfleet, and had 
i. Lucy, 8 Oct. 24, 1794, m. Joseph Lewis. 

253. 199. ii. Anthony, 8 Sep. 16, 1796 ; in. Eunice, 8 Nov. 4, 1798 ; iv. Thank- 
ful, 8 Apl. 24, 1801 ; v. Temperance, 8 May 18, 1803; 

258. 203. vi. Henry Allen, 8 Nov. 16, 1805 ; vn. Polly Jenkins, 8 Aug. 30, 1810 ; 
vm. Nancy, 8 Nov. 28, 1812. 



164. 205. Joseph, 7 m. 1793, Polly Jenkins, fr. Barnstable, and had 
261. 206. i. Tho., 8 Esq., Dec. 8, 1794, at Wellfleet; 

ii. Hannah, 8 Jly. 19, 1797, m. David Dyer, rs. Boston ; 
272. 208. in. Joseph, 8 Sep. 9, 1799; iv. Sally, 8 Feb. 12, 1802 ; v. Mary J., 8 Nov. 

8, 1804 ; vi. Jerusha, 8 Nov. 25, 1807; 
278. 212. vn. Samuel Waterman, 8 Feb. 26, 1810 ; 
281. 213. vm. Jesse, 8 Apl. 12, 1813, m. Mary Witherell ; ix. Chloe, 8 1815, d. 

yg. ; x. Wm. A., 8 1818, d. yg. 

165. 214. Anthony, 7 m. Mary Eaton, b. May 1, 1779, r. W., and had 

i. Hannah, 8 Mar. 31, 1799 ; n. Allen, 8 May 1, 1801 ; in. Mary, 8 Sep. 22, 
1802; iv. Joseph, 8 Oct. 24, 1804, rs. Salem ; v. Jerusha, 8 Nov. 26, 1807, 
d. Dec. 9, '07. 

166. 219. Solomon, 7 m. Thankful Rich, who d. June 9, 1804; and 2d, Priscilla 

Newcomb, 1805, r. Wellfleet, and had 
290. 220. i. Anthony, 8 Oct, 13, 1797, m. Hannah Smith, n. Huldah, 8 Jly. 13, 

1800 ; in. Lydia C, 8 June 7, 1802 ; 
304. 223. iv. Solomon, 8 who m. Sally Atwood. 

176. 224. David, m. 1776, Hannah Hopkins, b. Aug. 11, '56, resided in Wellfleet, 

and had i. Giles, 7 Nov. 5, 1777 ; 
296. 226. ir. Benj./ Feb. 25, 1780, m. Ruth Atkins; in. Abigail, 7 Sep. 8, 1782 ; 

iv. David, 7 Oct. 8, 1784, m. Nancy Rider, had Betsey, 1812; v. Betsey, 7 

May 24, 1787 ; vi. Elisha, 7 Jly. 14, 1791. 



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175. 231. Joseph, m. Abigail Bacon, r. Wellfleet, and had i. Nabby, 7 Jan. 4, 

1797; ii. Eliza, 7 May 29, 1799; 
300. 234. in. Ezekiel, Nov. 21, ; iv. Sally Davis, 7 Mar. 14, 1805; 

v. Myranda, 7 Nov. 11, 1806; vi. Joseph, 7 Mar. 16, 1809; vn. Elisha, 7 

Jly. 10, 1812; vin. David Bacon, 7 Nov. 2, 1816. 

191. 240. Joseph, s Col., has been so distinguished for a love of military adventure, 

that, had lie lived in the 11th cent., he might have figured in the history of 
knight-errantry. He was at Lisbon during the Peninsular war ; and in the 
war of 1812, served on board of privateers. He first settled in W.fleet. 
In 1822 he was commissioned Capt., and in 1825 Col. of militia; chosen 
representative of W. in 1830, '31, '32. In 1834 he removed to Bos., was 
received a member of the A. and H. Artillery Co., and became one of the 
original members of the Co. of National Lancers. During the R. I. troubles 
Col. H.'s sympathies were unfortunately so enlisted on the side of Dorr and 
confederates as to hurry him into their service ; and he was among the 136 
prisoners taken at Chepatchet, and the man first selected by the State's 
attorney for examinations, during the pendency of which he succeeded in 
making his escape. He now resides in Concord, which town he has repre- 
sented in the Legislature of Mass. He m. Mary Rich, grd. dau. of Dea. Jo- 
siah R., of Truro, and had I. Maria, 9 Mar. 21, 1818, d. 1843, m. A. P. 
Stevens, of Waterville, Me. ; n. Temperance H., 9 Apl. 30, 1820, d. 1849, 
m. Samuel Atherton, of Stoughton; in. Tho. Newcomb, 9 Sep. 5, 1822, d. 
184"), um. ; iv. Charles A., 9 b. 1826, a pioneer to Calif., Jan. 3, 1849, m., 
1847, Maria T. Smith, of Concord. 

192. 244. Robert Higgins, 8 m. Lurana Higgins, dau. of Cpt. Eleazer H., of Well- 

fleet, keeper of the Lighthouse, had at W. i. John Wesley, 9 Jly. 17, 1821 




199. 253. Anthony, 8 rs. in Boston as a dealer in fish. He m. Mercy W. Brown ; 
and 2d, Charlotte J. Brown, Oct. 5, 1851, and bad i. Mary Waterman, 9 Aug. 
19, 1820, m. Earle W. Johnson, of Bos. ; n. Lucy Lewis, 9 June 9, 1822; 
in. Eunice, 9 Jan. 19, 1823 ; it. Mercy Lunette, 9 Apl. 13, 1853. 

203. 258. Henry Allen, 8 m. Eunice Atwood, rs. Boston, had i. Franklin Augustus, 9 
Aug. 1829, d. Sep. 9, 1830 ; n. Caroline, 9 Jan. 25, 1832 ; in. Matilda 9 ; 
iv. Albert ; v. Henry ; vi. Augusta ; vn. Ella. 

206. 261. Tho., 8 Esq., advantageously known for 20 ys. as Commissioner of wrecks, 
still holds this office, and those of notary public and commissioner to qualify 
civil officers. He was formerly representative to the Gen. Court, from Well- 
fleet, where he now rs. He m. Mary Smith, dau. of James S., of New Bed- 
ford, and had i. Wm. Allen, 9 May 2, 1820; n. Tho. Franklin, 9 June 12, 
1822; in. Tamsin H., 9 May 10, 1824; iv. Sarah A., 9 Oct. 9, 1825; 
v. George H., 9 Mar. 16, 1828 ; vi. Mary S., 9 Feb. 18, 1830, d. Aug. 21, 
'31 ; vn. James Smith, 9 Jan. 13, 1832 ; vm. Nicholas H., 9 Oct. 13, 1833 ; 
ix. Mary P., 9 June 8, 1836; x. Lydia Ann C., u Jan. 25, 1839; 
xi. Charles Henry, 9 Sep. 14, 1841. 

208. 272. Joseph, 8 the 4th, m. Temperance Holbrook, rs. Wellfleet, had 

i. PollvJ., 9 Apl. 11, 1822; II. Anthony, 9 Oct. 1, 1824 ; in. Hannah, 9 Apl. 
16 



1 22 HOLBROOK. 

27, 1827, d. 1842; iv. Josiah Quincey/ J Feb. 9,1829; v. Nancy Warren, 9 
June 19, 1831 ; vi. Frederick Marshall, 9 June 7, 1833. 

212. 278. Samuel Waterman, 8 rs. Wellfleet, m. Sally Lothrop, who d. Feb. 2, 

1837; 2d, Betsey Kobinson, 1837; and 3d, Hannah A. Hill, and bad 

i. Henrietta, 8 Aug. 30, 1830, d. Jly. 4, 1835 ; n. Sarah F., 8 Jan. 9, 1833, 

d. Jly. 29, 1841 ; m. Mary, 8 ; iv. Henrietta, 8 Oct. 13, 1835, d. Jly. 

30, 1841 ; v. Henry W., 8 Dec. 16, 1839 (d.) ; vi. Prince R., 8 Aug. 7, 
1841, d. Jly. 18, 1841 ; vn. Francis H., 8 May 5, 1843. 

213. 281. Jesse, 8 m. Mary Witberell, rs. Boston, had i. Joseph 9 ; n. Catherine 9 ; 

in. MaryY. 9 ; iv. Sally D. 9 ; v. Flora, 9 ; vi. Alabama 9 ; vn. Chs. Benj. 1 ' ; 
viii. Frances H. 9 



220. 290. Anthony, 8 m. Hannah Smith, had at Wcllfleet i. Isaac Smith, Nov. 11, 
1819; n. Rosetta, 9 Jan. 6, 1822, d. Sep. 25, '22; in. Anthony Perry, 9 
Jan. 4, 1824; iv. Hannah, 9 Apl. 7, 182G; v. Mary Ann, 9 Sep.p2, 1828. 

226. 296. Benj., 7 m. Ruth Atkins, who d. 1813, and had at W. i. Ruth Atkins, s 
Map 19, 1804 : n. Benj., 8 June, 1809, d. Feb. 4, 1810 ; in. Benj., 8 Dec. 
17, 1810, m. Rachel H. Smith, Jly. 14, '33 ; 

308. 299. iv. Giles, 8 Mar. 4, 1813. 



234. 300. Ezekiel, 7 m. Sally Newcomb, r. Wcllfleet, had i. John Orry 8 ; n. Isaac 
Browne 8 ; in. Emily Ann 8 ; iv. Ezekiel, 8 Apl. 10, 1S35. 

223. 304. Solomon, 8 m. Sally Atwood ; 2d, Thankful Hawes, r. Wellfleet, had 

I. Hannah Smith, 9 Feb. 17, 1828 ; n. Lot H., 9 Feb. 5, 1830, d. Sep. 25, 
1837 ; in. Sally A., 9 May 12, 1833 ; iv. Mary Hawes, 3 Sep. 15, 1844. 



299. 308. Giles, 8 m. Mary Hall ; and 2d, Lucy P. Tilton, r. Wellfleet, had 

i. David, 9 Jly. 27, 1835 ; n. Giles Benj., 9 Mar. 5, 1839, d. Sep. 23, '39 ; 
in. Giles Whitman, 9 Sep. 27, 1842. 

148. 309. Nehemiah, m. pr. Elizabeth Hubbard, and settled in S. Braintree, and had 
330. 310. I. Nehemiah, 7 m. Sarah Wild, r. S. Br. ; n. Caleb, 7 m. Susanna Hol- 

brook, r. S. Br. ; 
313. 312. in. Joshua, 7 Oct. 14, 1773, d. Sep. 14, 1829, m. Marv Read ; 

iv. Rebecca, 7 m. Nathl. Whiting, r. Canton ; v. Mary, m. John Tower, for 

2d wife ; vi. , m. Leml. Whiting, fr. C, r. Abington ; 

vn. Olive, 7 (d.), m. Luther Thayer, r Braintree, 



312. 313. Joshua, 7 settled first at Braintree, and rm. to S. Weym. He m. Mary 
Read, who was b. May 13, 1778, and still survives, and had i. Mary, 8 Mar. 
1, 1797, m. Jacob Shaw, r. N. Weymouth; n. Joshua, 8 May 11, '99, w., 
Nancy B. Bates, b. June 2, 1804, m. June 3, 1823, rs. N. Weym., had 

'Nancy 2?., 9 Nov. 20, '25, d. June 5, '26 ; Harriet N.? Aug. 18, '27 ; 

Almira? Nov. 16, '32 ; 
in. Elizabeth, 8 Aug. 26, 1802, m. Riley Hayford, rs. Dorchester; 
iv. Sarah R., 8 Aug. 10, '04, m. Roswell Trufant ; v. Nathaniel T., 8 Mar. 

3, '07, m. 1831, Ann Whitmarsh, rs. Neponsett, has Ann Augusta? ; 
vi. John, 8 Mar. 9, '09, m. Mary Elizabeth B. Pratt, r. Old Spain, 

Weym., has John Adams? b. May 27, '37 ; Lixza FMa? Nov. 5, '52 ; 



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123 



. vn. Eliniry, 8 Mar. 1, 1811, died unmarried, Feb. 27, 1829 ; vm. Catherine, 8 
Sep. 6, '13, m. Samuel Barrell; ix. Rebecca, 8 June 28, '15, m. James 
Bates; x. Wm., 8 Apl. 7, '18, m. Maria Bicknell, rs. N. Weym., has 

Margaret"* and Nathan* ; 
xi. Priscilla, 8 Nov. 14, '20, m. Quincey Pool. 

149. 318. Wm., G m. Melatiah Swan, s. in Stoughton, bad i. Jason, 7 Feb. 15, 1772, 
d. Mar. 1847, m. Cynthia Horton, r. S., bad i. Stephen, vs. S. ; II. Jason 

(d.) ; in. Henry, rs. S. ; iv. Lewis, r. Randolph ; 
ii. Melatiah, 7 Feb. 16, '76, m. Ames Thayer; 2d, Leonard, Do., r. Rand. ; 
in. John, 7 Apl. 19, '78, m. Polly Howard ; 2d, Patty Prentice, rs. Sto., had 

i. Silence II, June 17, 1802; n. John, Jly. 17, '05, m. Hanh. F. 

Holmes, rs. S. ; in. Albert, Apl. 28, '07, m. Betsey Howard, rs. S. ; 

iv. Harrison, Nov. 26, '13, rs. urn. S ; v. Jona. JR., May 5, '16, m. 

Mary W. Carey, rs. S. ; vi. Polly H., Aug. 7, '19, m. Tho. Macna- 

mary, rs. ; vn. Ann P., Sep. 25, '25, m. Elijah P. Whitman, 

rs. Buckfield, Me. ; vm. Jane K., Dec. 24, '27, m. James 0. Daniels, 

rs. ; ix. Wm. P., Apl. , '38 (d ) ; 

iv. Robert Swan, 7 Mar. 18, '80, m. Silence Howard, r. N. Bridgcwatcr, had 

i. Daniel H. 8 (d.) ; n. Wm, s rs. N. B. ; in. Robert 8 (d.) ; 

iv. Hiram 8 ; 
v. Melinda, 7 June 29, '82, m. Francis Keith, r. Easton ; vi. Elizabeth, 7 May 
5, '84, m. Isaac Beals, had Eliza, who m. Nathl. Morton, rs. S. ; 
vn. Wm., 7 Apl. 1, '86, d. urn. at S. 

115. 322. John, ,; Col., r. on the road fr. S. Braintree to Randolph, in a house not 
less than 140 ys. old, and pr. built by Ludden or the elder Pea., John. He 
had by w. Anna Wild, i. Anna, 7 m. Caleb Thayer, of B.; n. John, 7 d. 
um. ; in. Susanna, 7 m. Caleb Holbrook ; 
326. 323. iv. Elisha, 7 Dea., b. Aug. 21, 1775, m. Sarah Thayer; v. Mary, 7 Mar. 
2, '78, m., for 2d w., Caleb Thayer; vi. Joseph, 7 Mar. 2, '78, m. Ruth 
Linfield, rs. Randolph, had i. Samuel L., 8 m. Susan Adams, had Susan 9 ; 
Chs. 9 ; Elihu 9 ; Ann Augusta 9 ; 

ii. Mary 8 m. Ezra Penniman, of B. ; in. Anna B, 8 m. Harvey 
Alden; 2d, Alvin Snell, rs. R., has Abby Ann, 9 Eugene, 9 Jeanette 9 ; 
vn. Sarah, 7 m. Samuel Dyer, r. R. ; vm. Abiah, 7 Jan. 17, 1785, m. Mary 
Thayer, r. B., had 19 children, viz., i. Mary A. 8 ; n. Charlotte 8 
in. Olive 8 ; iv. Olive 8 ; v. Abigail 8 ; vi. Geo. W. 8 ; vn. Abiah 8 
vill. Chs. 8 ; ix. Infant 8 ; x. Henry 8 ; XI. Geo. W. 8 ; xn. Anna 8 
xni. Wm. C. 8 ; xiv. Infant 8 ; xv. Elizabeth 8 ; xvi. Chs. H. 8 
xvn. Justin Edwards 8 ; xvin. Lucinda 8 ; xix. Elisha Abiah, 8 rs. R., 
m. Jane Gibbs (d.) has Chs. II. 9 ; 
ix. Charlotte, 7 m. James Adams, r. Milton ; x. Clarissa, 7 m. Barnabas 
Lothrop, r. R. 

223. 326. Elisha, 7 Dea., inherited the homestead in B., m. early in life, applied 
himself with energy, industry and system to business, and was prospered ; 
became a pillar in the chh, and 35 ys. ago, one of her Deacons ; has well 
sustained tho good name and standing of each generation of bis New Eng- 
land ancestors ; and in a green old age able to anticipate in his line the re- 
covery of the relative position of his sires. He m. Sarah Thayer, b. Sep. 
24, 1776, d. Oct. 27, 1849, and had i. Anna, 8 Jly. 2, 1793, m. Calvin 
French, of Randolph; n. Sally S., s Dec. 20, '94, m. David Blanchard, of 



124 HOLBROOK. 

K. ; in. Abigail, 8 Jan. 17, '96, m. Jona. White, of R. ; iv. John, 8 Sap. 6, 
'97, m. Casendana White, r. R., had i. Wash. Lafayette, Aug. 24, 1824, d. 
yg. ; ir. John Wash. Aug. 8, '26, d. '30 ; in. Farrington Oct. 12, 
'28, m. Mariah Dyer ; iv. Aaron, May 25, '30, m. Betsey J. Brett ; 
v. Elisha June 18, '33 ; vi. Abraham C.° Jly. 5, '35 ; vn. Cas- 
endana Apl. 2, '37, d. a. 10 ; 
v. Elisha Niles, 8 Oct. 31, 1800, rs, R., an extensive manufacturer and trader, 
m. Relief Linfield, Dec. 4, '31, had i. Relief L.° Sep. 13, 1824 ; 
ii. Mary W.° Apl. 9, '29 ; in. Elisha Apl. 29, '35 ; 
vi. Caleb Strong, 8 Apl. 10, 1804, rs. R., an extensive shoe manufacturer 
and trader, the proprietor of a splendid and useful garden and fruitery ; and 
distinguished for kind attentions to strangers and liberality to his employees, 
m. Prudence G. Durfee.fr. Fall River, b. Oct. 3,1806, m. Jan. 5, '26, had 
i. Ellen Marin Jan. 31, 27, m. Rev J. W. Willman, of Deny, 
N. H. ; ii. Anna E.° Mar. 25, '30 ; in. Caleb B.° Jan. 31, '36, d. 
yg ; iv. Sarah J.° Aug. 29, '37. 

310. 330. Nehemiah, 7 m. Sarah Wild, r. Braintree, had i. Nehemiah R., 8 rs. B. ; 
n. Ludovicus W., 8 rs. B. ; in. Sarah F., 8 m. Jer. Snell; 2d, Silas Snow, 
rs. N. Bridgewater; iv. Caleb J., 8 m. Mary Whiting, rs. Do.; v. Levi 
Wild, 8 m. Esther Curtis, rs. N. York ; vi. Jerusha Thayer, 8 m. Emmons 
Thayer; vn. Asa W., 8 b. Apl. 17, 1812, m. Harriet N. Littlefield, rs. 
Stough., had i. Asa W.,° Aug. 19, '34; n. Randall J° Oct. 13, '37; 

in. Wm. H.° May 29, '41 ; 
vni. Wm. P. 8 m. Caroline Johnson ; 2d, Fan. Richards, rs. Me. 



141. 337. Ichabod, Maj., s. in Randolph, had, by w. Elizabeth (Mann) 

Niles, i. Ichabod, r. R. ; n. Elizabeth ; in. Peter, r. R. and B. ; 
iv. Samuel, r. R. ; v. Jason, rs. R. ; vi. Elisha 7 ; vn. Daniel, 7 r. N. 
Bridgewater; vni. Elizabeth 7 ; ix. Hannah 7 ; x. Relief. 7 

142. 344. Ebcnezer, m. Betsey Hayden, r. pr. B., had 

i. Zadock 7 ; n. Ebenezer 7 ; in. Betsey 7 ; iv. Charlotte 7 ; v. Olive. 7 

143. 347. Tho., c m. Sarah Tower, r. B., had i. Tho., 7 in. Clark, and rm. to 

Me., had i. Francis, 8 who rs. at Albany, N. Y., has two dgs., 9 teachers ; 

ii. John, 7 m. Billings; in. Abiezer, 7 m. Anna Taunt; iv. Isaac, 7 d. 

um. ; v. Azubah, 7 m. John Littlefield; vt. Hannah, 7 m. Neh. Hayden; 
vn. Sarah, 7 d. um. ; vni. Rebecca, 7 m. Wm. Hollis ; ix. Polly, 7 1. um. 

136. 351. James, Esq., m. Rhoda Vinton, r. S. Braintree, had i. Rhoda, 7 m. 

Wm. Stetson, r. Randolph ; n. Lucy, m. Joshua Sampson, r. B. ; 

in. James, 7 m. Lydia Read, r. B. ; iv. David, 7 Esq., Aug. 16, 1782, m. 

Beulah Thayer, rs. B., had i. Adaline T. 8 Aug. 19, 1809 (d.), m. Otis 
Ells; ii. David A., s Mar. 11, 18—, m Maria Pierce, rs. B. ; 
in. Joel E., Nov. 21, 1811, m. Susan Arnold, rs. B., a manufacturer 
and dealer in shoes ; iv. Elizabeth, 8 Jan. 22, '14, m. Elbridge Hayden, 
rs. Quincy; v. Eunice, 8 June 10, '16, m. David Tirrell, rs. Weym. ; 
vi. Lavina, 8 J\y. 28, '18, m. Francis Tirrell, rs. W. ; vn. Beulah M. 8 
Jan. 16, '22, m. Horace Faxon, rs. Q. ; vni. Mary L. 8 Jly. 13, '25, 
m. Wm. Moor, rs. B. ; ix. Susan F, 8 Jly. 24, '30, m. Steph. Brad- 
ford, rs. B. ; x. Rosabella, 8 Dec. 16, '35. 

v. Nancy, 7 m. Caleb Hunt, r. B. ; vi. Samuel, 7 m. Hah. Vinton, rs. B., had 

only dgs.; vn. Susan, 7 m. Tho. Leach: 2d, Caleb Hunt; vni. Eunice, 7 



HOLBROOK. 125 

m. Lewis French, r. B. ; ix. Elias, 7 d. urn. ; x. Caleb/ m. Silence Thayer, 

xr. Moses,' m. Amanda White, r. B. ; xn. Hepbzibath,' ra. Ludovicus 
Holbrook, r. B. 



CHAPTER II. 



5. Thomas Holbrooke, 2 resided at Scituate, Weymouth and Braintree : and 
was a man of enterprise and wealth. In 1653, 2d, lmo., he bought of Abra- 
ham Harding, a farm at Braintree, of 53 acres, with house and barn ; and 
Nov. 11, 1662, a tract (supposed to be now in Q.) left by Wm. Tyng to his heirs, 
Tho. Brattle, Tho. Shepard, Robert Wharton and Samuel Bradstreet, husbands of 
Tyng's 4 daus. Mar. 1, 1663, he purchased more land in Braintree, and like his 
brothers became the owner of much real estate. He last resided where Minot 

Thayer now lives, in B. or Q. He m. Joanna , who survived him. He made 

his will July 25, 1695, giving to his son Peter, "all that estate of lands and 
meadows in Mendon, which he formerly purchased of his brother Wm. He named 
also Tho. as his eldest, and no other son. It is possible that the Samuel, No. 6, 
of II. Part and Chapt. IV. was his son and had died previous to the father's makinc 
his will. A more careful examination of the settlement of his estate in 1696, may 
verify the conjecture and make certain what I have put down as doubtful. la his 
will he requests his cousin [nephew] Samuel Holbrooke, of Braintree, to see to the 
execution of it, but this nephew having in the meantime deceased, he, March 26, 
1696, requested John Allen to act in his place with Nathaniel Wales, Capt. John 
witnessing it. Administration on his estate, Aug. 19, 1697, was granted his wid., 
Joanna, alias Jone, and his eldest son Tho. [Suft. Prob., xi. 325-7.] He had, 
10. 4. i. Tho., 3 who " d. the aged and was buried at B., Dec. 20, 1728," m. De- 
borah Damon, and 2d, Mary , who "was buried, Feb. 14, 1737-8; " 

ii. Mary, 3 mentioned in her father's will, m. Colburne ; 

6. in. John, 3 15, (8), 1653, at B., d. Dec. 25, 1078, pr. unm. ; 

18. 7. iv. Peter, 3 Dea., 6, (7), 1655, d. May 3, 1712, m. Alice , and settled 

at Mendon; v. Joanna, 3 30, (8), 1656, m. pr. Uriah Clark ; vi. Susanna, 3 
m. Andrew Willet, of Boston; vn. Joseph, 3 10, (12), 1660, d. youno-. 

4. 10. Tho., 3 was received to the 2d Church in B., Mar. 26, 1721, and appears to 
have inherited the homestead at B., m. Deborah Damon, 1666, and 2d, 

Mary , who with her husband at B., 1694-5, consented to the marriage 

of their dau. Sarah, with Trustam Davis, of Hingham. He made his will, 
Oct. 16, 1728, which was proved, Jan. 9, '28-9, and administration granted 
his wid. Mary, who d. 1737-8. [Suff. Prob., 27, 8.] 

13. 11. i. Tho., 4 who d. prior to 1729, m. Mary ; 

ii. Sarah, 4 who m. Trustam Davis. 

11. 13. Tho., 4 m. Mary , who d. as his wid., and administration on her estate 

was granted, 1729, to her daughter Hannah. They had, 
14. i. Tho., 5 Mar. 13, 1692-3, m. 1718, Ruth Ford, of Weym., and had, 

Sirah, 6 bap., Oct. 23, 1738. Tho. Holbrook d. at B., intestate, and 
administration on his estate was granted to Col. Ebenr. Thayer, Hon., 
1763, who came into possession of his place, now Esq. Minot Thayer's. 
ii. Mary, 5 Oct. 20, 1700, m. Seth Copeland, Dec. 12, 1722 ; in. Hannah, 5 



126 II LB 110 O K. . 

Nov. 20, 1702, m. Nathaniel Belcher, Nov. 18, '31 ; iv. Susanna, 5 d. Feb. 
23, 1712-13 ; v. Samuel,' b. Apl. 29, 1711, who pp. was buried, Sep. 2, 
'28; vi. Abigail,' 1 b. Sep. 8, 1715. Records afford no further guide to any 
descendant of Tho., 2 and the name in his line seems to have become extinct 
in B. and vicinity. 

7. 18. Peter,' 1 Dea., m. Alice , who d. Apl. 29, 1705; and 2d, Elizabeth 

Pool, who, after his decease, m. Robert Ware, of Wrenth., and d. 1724, 
[Suff. Prob., 23, 202-3.] Dea. Peter, made his will, Jan. 16, 1711-12, 
which was proved, May 29, 1713, and administration granted to his sons, 
John, Peter and Joseph [Suff. Prob., 17, 463-4.] The lands which he left 
to his sons were most of them subsequently included in Bellingham. 
He was an important man for his day, and laid the foundation of great good 
to his race, many of whom are still enjoying it within the circle of his former 
influence and possessions. He resided a short distance S. E. of the village 
of Mendon. He had, 

29. 19. i. John, 4 Sep. 24, 1679, at Braintrce, d. May 11, 1765, at Belling.," in his 
86th year." 

36. 20. ii. Peter, 4 Oct. 16, 1681, at Mendon, d. Dec. 24, 1728, at Bellingham. 

43. 21. in. Joseph, 4 May 8, 1683, d. Apl. 25, 1750, at Bell., "in his 67th year." 

52. 22. iv. Silvanus, 4 Aug. 15, 1685, a housewright, d. at Uxbridge, 1740. 
v. Joanah, 4 Mar. 7, 1686-7, and no further reported. 

56. 24. iv. Richard, 4 May 30, 1690, whose funeral charges, £1 19s., were paid 
ab. 1770. [Wore. Prob.] 

63. 25. vii. Eliphalet, 4 Jan. 27, 1691-2, d. Oct. 19, 1775, at Bell., "in his 84th yr." 
viii. Win, 4 Mar. 28, 1693-4, m. Hopestill Read, Apl. 9, 1722. 

71. 27. ix. Samuel, 4 Feb. 27, 1695-6, m. Hannah Albee ; x. Thomas, 4 d. August 
15, 1702, at " Mendham ; " 
xi. Mary, 4 born Oct. 14, 1702, and no further reported. 



19. 29. John, 4 Cornet, m. Hannah , who d. at Belling., Apl. 12, 1770, " in 

her 86th year." He, " yeoman," made his will, June 8, 1757, which was 
proved, June 7, 1765, and administration granted hiswid., Hannah and sons, 
Luke and Aaron. His estate was appraised at £904. [Wore. Prob.] He 
had, I. Tho., 5 Mar. 13, 1706-7, d. prior to June, 1757, leaving a son, 

Eli, 6 to whom his grd. father John, gave all his lands in Brimfield. 
ii. Hannah, 5 May 4, 1707; in. Lydia, 5 Apl. 22, 1711. 

271. 31. iv. Josiah, 5 Jan. 17, 1714-15, d. Feb. 4, 1783, m. Margt. Ives, 2d, Mary 

Moffet ; v. Moses, 5 Apl. 23, 1717, m. , and had at Upton, 

Hoses 6 born July 20, 1702. 
vi. John, 5 Sep. 24, 1721, at Bell., m. Apl. 7, '47, Patience Fisher, from 
Wrentham. 

75. 34. vii. Luke, 5 Mar. 20, 1724, d. Nov. 3, 1775, in his 52d year, m. Mercy 
Pond, at Medfd. 

83. 35. viii. Aaron, 5 Aug. 31, 1730, m. Hannah Patridge. 



20. 36. Peter, 4 " a weaver," w. Hannah Pool, m. Mar. 23, 1713, who m. 2d, Tho. 

Thayer, July 16, '29, r. M. and Bell. He d. intestate, and adm. was 

granted to his wid., Hannah, Feb. 12, 1728. [Suff. Prob., xxvii. 34.] 
90. 37. i. Peter, 5 Nov. 26, 1713, at Mendon, chose his uncle John, of Bell., Sep. 

15, 1729, to be his guardian ; n. Isaac, 5 Oct. 8, 1715, d. Nov. 29, '15. 
97. 39. in. Daniel, 5 Apl. 8, '17, at Mendon, d. 1765 ; iv. Elizabeth, b. and d. 

Mar. 26, '20, at Bell. ; v. Abigail, 5 b. and d. May 7, '22; vi. Elizabeth, 5 



II O L B It K . 1 27 

May 3, '23 ; xih. Isaac. ? His estate at Uxb. inventoried at £70, 15s., 
Jan. 20, 1757, Sam. Read, admr. ; vn. Oliver, 5 Jan. 7, '20-7. 
42. vni. Abigail, 5 May 1, '28. 

21. 43. Joseph, 4 Husbandman, w. Mary Cook, m. Dec. 29, 1710, r. Bell. His es- 

tate was inventoried May 29,1750. [Suff. Prob. xliv. 122.] 

i. Alice, 5 Feb. 14, 1710-11, at Mention; n. Joanna, 5 Dec. 21, '12. 
101. 46. in. Joseph, 5 Dea., Nov. 24, '14, " d. July 14, 12*8, in bis 71st year." 

iv. Rachel, 5 Jan. 10, '16-17. 
109. 48. v. Asabel, 5 Jan. 3, '18-19; vi. David, 5 Mar. 15, '21, at Bell., d. May 29, 

'73, unm. ; vn. Mary, 5 Oct. 13, '23 ; vm. Martba, 5 Dec. 28, '26, d. Jan. 

29, '31. 
117. 51. ix. Jesse, 5 July 21, '29, d. Apl. 18, 1815, a. " 85 yrs. 9 mo." 

x. Martba, 5 May 4, '32, d. Jan. 29, '31. 

22. 52. Sylvanus, 4 carpenter, w. Nancy Cook, m. Mar. 6, 1712-13, r. Mend., sold 

00 acres, and a 5 acre rigbt deeded to bim by bis fatber Peter, to his br. , 
Elipb., Mar. 19, '15-10; who sold bim at the same time G5 acres ; had pr. 
i. Sylvanus, ? who m. Thankful Thayer, Oct. 25, '48; n. Ruth, 5 May 13, 
1715, at Mendon ; in. John, 5 Aug. 1, '17, administered with his mother, 
Naomi, on his father's estate, 1740. 



24. 50. Richard, 4 w. Abial Abby, m. July 18, 1722. 

12(1. 57. i. Benj., 5 Feb. 14, 1722-3, at Mendon ; n. Abial, 5 June 30, '24. 

272. 59. in. Richard, 5 Feb. 7, '20-7, rm. to Wiscasset, Me., then Pownalboro'; 

iv. Susanna, 5 d. Jan. 15, '30 ; v. Thankful, 5 Oct. 24, '31 ; 

vi. Peter, 5 Jan. 23, '34-5. 



25. 03. Eliphalet, 4 yeoman, w. Hanh., alias Johanab, Roekwood, b. Aug. 15, 1092, 

m. Nov. 7, 1710, 
128. 04. i. Ebenezer, 5 June 3, 1717, at Mendon: n. Setb, 5 Feb. 20, 1721, at 

Bell., d. Sep. 20, '47. 
143. GO. in. Eliphalet, 5 Oct. 25, '25, d. Apl. 28, '76 ; iv. Noah, 5 Dec. G, '27. 

v. Caleb, 5 Jan. 14, '31 ; vi. Elijah, 5 May G, '36, d. May 2, '40 ; 

vn. Johonna, 5 July 21, '38. 

27. 71. Samuel, 4 w. Hannah Albee, m. Aug. 2, 1721, r. pr. Ux. ; i. Abigail, 5 Oct. 

17, 1722, at Mendon; n. Keziab, 5 Sep. 27, '24. 
265. 74. in. Samuel, 5 Dec. 27, '26, m. Lydia Staples. 



34. 75. Luke, 5 w. Mercy Pond, ra. Jan. 23, 1750-1, r. Bell. He d. intestate, and 

administration was granted to his wid., Mercy, Apl. 1, '76. [Suff. Prob.] 
270. 70, i. Amos, G M. D., Jan. 23, 1754, d. June 17, 1842, a. 88, m. Melatiab 
Howard, fr. Med., r. Milton ; n. Dinah, 6 May 1, '57, m. Seth Holbrook, 
(No. 323.) in. Jerusha.. 6 May 1G, '59, d. July 2, 1833, m. Richard Leth- 
bridge; iv. Lucy, 6 May 25, '63, m. Joel Jenks, of Wrenth., 1783 ; — 
v. Rachel, 6 July 13, '65, d. Nov. 7, '75; vi. Mercy, 6 Nov. 11, '67, m. 

David Hill, of Bell., '85, and 2d, Jones. 

vn. Sena, 6 Jan. 4, '71, m. Joseph Penniman, of Mend. 

35. 83. Aaron, 5 Lt., inherited the homestead in Bell., was member of Provincial 

Congress, 1775; m. Hannah Partridge, of Mend., June 3, 1762, and 2d, 
Eli/.th. Daniels, Sep. 1, 1813, a wid., fr. Sh., r. Bell., had, 



128 HOLBROOK. 

151. 84. i. Amzi, G Mar. 4, 1763; ir. Abi, c Dec. 16, '64; in. Levi, Feb. 2, '67. 
iv. Phebe, Jan. 26, '69; v. Benajah, Apl. 15, '71, d. Jan. 30, '72; 
vi. Benajah,' ; Nov. 19, '72, d. Feb. 1, 1855, m. Judith Badger, b. Sep. 24, 

1779, dg. of Henry B., m. May 4, 1800, and d. Feb. 13, 1844, rm. , 

had, 

i. Judith, 7 Jan. 13, 1801; n. Benajah, 7 Jan., '05; in. Henry B., 7 

Jan. 4, '07 j iv. Mary, 7 Aug. 7, '09 ; v. Chs., 7 Aug. 15, '11 ; 

vi. Koxa, 7 Dec. 4, '13 ; vn. Milton, 7 Jan. 4, '17, d. '52; 

vin. Dewitt, 7 Aug. 22, '19 ; ix. Ursula, 7 Jan. 4, '22. 
vn. Hannah, Oct. 16, '75. 

37. 90. Peter, 5 w. Sarah, r. Bell. 

157. 91. Stephen, Apl. 30, 1737 ; n. Sarah, " 27 day,"— 1739; m. Sarah, July 
24, '40, d. May 23, '53 ; iv. Peter, July 22, '42, d. 1780 ; v. Simeon, 
Oct. 10, '44, d. July 20, 1814, unm. at Upton, where he owned a farm 
and mills, which he bequeathed partly to his nephew, Capt. Daniel Hol- 
brook ; vi. Elizabeth, Apl. 28, '46 ; vn. Jemima, Oct. 8, '47 ; 
vin. Timothy, Oct. 3, '51. 

39. 97. Daniel, 5 w. Catherine, r. Mendon, his estate inventoried, Apl. 16, 1765, 
at £951, 10s., but when completely settled in '72, amounted to £219, 13s. 

3d. He owned a forge with Yates, at Uxb. and much land in the E. 

part of Mendon and Bell. His wid., Kath., administered ; 

i. Peter, March 1, 1745-6 ; II. Silas, Oct. 11, '62, m. Betsey Bridges, of M. ; 

in. Daniel, 6 Feb. 7, '65. 



46. 101. Joseph, 5 Dea. in 2d chh. in Medway, and a substantial citizen of Bell., 

w. Grace , d. May 13, 1791, in her 76th yr. He was a blacksmith, 

and sold, for £49, 16 acres at B., Dec. 30, 1743, to Elnathan Wight. His 
will, proved Aug. 30, 1785, gave to his wid., Grace, the use of his real 
estate, 2 cows and a horse, and at her death his land and his farm tools to 
be equally divided among his three sons, and the remainder of his estate 
among his 4 daugs., and Joseph to be sole executor : Amariah, Jesse and 
Stephen Holbrook were witnesses. [Suff. Prob., 84, 267.] i. Esther, 6 Apl. 1, 

1739, m. Thayer ; n. Bethia, Apl. 13, '41, m. Hayward ; 

in. Phebe, Nov. 28, '43, m. Amos Richardson, of W. Med. 

260. 105. iv. Jona., 6 Lt., May 31, '46, m. Anna Patridge. 

168. 106. v. Joseph, Oct. 15, '48, m. Meletiah Fisher ; 

136. 107. vi. Seth, Nov. 24, '51, d. Nov. 13, 1839, m. Dinah Holbrook, 1775 ; 
vn. Melatiah, Feb, 28, '55, m. Nathan Partridge, of Med., 2d, Capt. Tho. 
Adams, of Barre. 

48. 109. Asahel, 5 w. Anna , d. Dec. 22, 1777, r. Bell.; i. Nathan, 6 Lt., Feb. 

14, 1743--4, m. Lydia , had James, Jan. 1, '81 ; n. Mary, July 15, 

'45 ; in. Anna, 6 May 24, '47. 
177. 113. iv. Ezekiel, March 26, '49, s. in N. H., and become a Shaker ; 

v. Habijah, June 29, '52, m. Freelove Pond, at Wrenth., Aug. 12, '72, 
had Anna, 7 Feb. 20, '74, rm. Torrington, Ct., and d. there. 

vi. Elijah, Jan. 18, '55, d. at Alstead, N. H., f.of Frances, of Surry, N. H. 
181. 116. vn. Asa, Mar. 26, '57, d. Mar. 27, '92 ; vin. Esther, Feb. 7, '64, d. 

Nov. 19, '64 ; ix. Moses, Feb. 10, '66, d. March 14, '66. 

51. 117. Jesse, 5 w. Abigail Thayer, d. June 18, 1805, in her 76th year, r. B. ; i. 
Hannah, 6 Oct. 26, 175--, d. Mar. 9, '76 ; n. Huldah, Sep. 17, 1754, d. 
Sep. 2, '75. 



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185. 118. in. Amariab, 6 June C, '56, d. Sep. 7, '97 ; iv. Jesse," Aug. 7, '64, 
m. Clarissa Hixon, had 8 did., r. Palermo, N. Y. 
v. Lucretia, July 18, '06, d. Jan. 29, '90. 



57. 120. Benj., 5 w. Abigail Benson, m. 1747 ; 2d, w. Jerusba Fletcher, m, Sep. 4, 

'00, r. M. ; i. Son, Oct., ; n. Abigail, Aug. 15, '49 ; 

in. Abial, G (dg.), Mar. 4, '52; iv. Keuben, July 18, '54, m. Eacbael 
Darling, Mar. 27, '77 : v. Margery, June 25, '61, by 2d w. Jerusha, and 
d. yg. ; vi. Sarab, May 16, '03* 

251. 127. vn. Peter, July 12, '05*; vm. Molly, Aug. 24, '07, d. yg. 



04. 128. Ebenezer, 5 w. Keziah White, m. Apl. 2G, 1748, 2d w., Abigail Adams, 
fr. Wrenth., m. Sep. 27, '57, r. Mention ; i. xibigail, May 22, '49; 
ii. Elioenai, (dg.), June 29, '50; in. Ziba,° Aug. 8, '52. 
243. 132. iv. Darius, Jan. 8, '54 ; v. Ebenezer, 6 Apl. 7, '55, d. Aug. 30, '04 ; 

vi. Ehoda, Aug. 25, '58 ; vn. Keziah, Mar. 17, '00 ; vm. Ebenezer, Oct. 
24, '02, d. Jan. G, 'G7 ; ix. Calvin, 6 Jan. 0, '05, in. Sabra Patridge, 
Dec. 13, '92, at B. ; x. Abigail, Oct. 21, '00. 



107. 130. Seth,' 3 a soldier of the revolution, drew a pension, w. Dinah Holbrook, 

(No. 329), r. Bell. ; i. Rachel, Jan. 17, 1777 ; n. Clary, Jan. 22, '79 ; 

in. Esther, Nov. 5, '80 ; iv. Boxanna, 6 July 24, '82 ; v. Luke, July 12, 

'84, rm. N. Y. 
2G4. 139. vi. Sabin, Oct. 19, '80, d. 1833, r. Dorch. and Bell. ; vn. Seth, July 29, 

1789, r. B. ; vm. Persis, Oct. 14, '91 ; ix. Merinda, Sep. 3, '94, d. Oct. 

24, '95 ; x. Valentine Eathburn, Dec. 14, 1800, r. Bell. 



GO. 143. EliphaleV w. Abigail Wight, m. Nov. 20, 1753, d. Sep. 3, 1808, r. B. 

He d. intestate, and administration was granted his son Henry, Apl. 10, 

1778, on whom the homestead was settled ; i. Olive, AdI. 4, '54. 
190. 144. ii. Henry, Aug. 27, '5G, d. Oct. 1, 1833 ; in. Martha, 6 Oct. 11, '58 ; 

iv. Caleb, Nov. 1, '00. 
201. 147. v. Peter, Nov. 23, '62, d. Dec. 3, 1837, m. Mary Bates, fr. Mend., b. Feb. 

10, '07 ; vi. Seth, July 17, '05, m. Hanh. Bates, Jan. 21, '98, r. B. ; 

vn. Nathan, July 24, '08, m. Sally Bates, May 29, '93, had at M., 
i. Aria? May 23, '95 ; n. Diana, 7 Aug. 25, '97 ; in. Dennis. 7 

vm. Peruda, Mar. 24, '70 ; ix. Eliab, Feb. 20, 72, d. Oct. 10, '75 ; 

x. Eliphalet, Feb. 9, '74, d. Oct. 15, '75. 

xi. Abigail, June 9, '70, d. aged weeks ; xn. Abigail. 

84. 151. Amzi,° w. Sarah, r. Bell; i. Ehoda, 7 Apl. 8, 1791 ; n. Aaron, 7 July 25, 
'93, rm. Hardwick, and m. Margery Ware, of Wrenth., Mar. 2, 1800 ; 
in. Betsey, 7 Aug. 31, '95 ; iv. Patty, 7 Aug. 9, '99 ; 
v. Sarah, 7 Mar. 15, 1802. 

91. 157. Stephen, 6 w. Eachel Cook, dg. of Walter C, of Mend., r. Bell. ; 

i. Sarah, 7 Jan. 15, 1705. ' 
201.? 159. ii. Stephen, 7 Sep. 29, '07. 
211. 1G0. in. Amasa, 7 Dec. 31, '09, d. May 28, 1815 ; iv. Simeon, 7 Sep. 1, '72 ; 

v. Peter, 7 ? pr. who was killed by a tree in Upton. 

* None but Sarah and Peter are mentioned by Jerusha, administratrix of Benj.'s estate in 
1768. Another Benj. and John Holbrook r. then in or near Mend. 

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130 HOLBROOK. 

1G2. Peter, w. Huldah Wood ; 
217. 1G3. i. David, 7 d. at Grantham, N. H. ; 

ii. Margery, 7 Oct. 31, 1769, m. Winter ; 

221. 105. in. Nathan, 7 Apl. 12, '72, in. Lydia Hayward ; 

228. 166. iv. Daniel, 7 Cpt., Aug. 21, '77, d. Jly. 182G ; v. Jemima,' Jan. 15, 

'81, m. Joseph Hunt, had 13 chd. 

106 168 Joseph, w. Melatiah Fisher, m. Nov. 7, '70, r. Wrenth., Bell, and Wor., 
i. Phineas, 7 Sep. 15, 1771, m. Polly Wales, of Fr'k., Nov. 4, '95, r.Worces. ; 
n Hepsibath, 7 Nov. 7, '73, at Wrenth. ; ni. Lewis, 7 Oct. 6, '75, s. in Wor. ; 
iv. Melatiah, 7 Aug. 23, '80; v. Julia, 7 Sep. 15, '84; vi. Edena, 7 Dec. 
25, '86, m. Sewall Sanford, of Med. ; vn. Julia, 7 May 7, '90; Yin. Silva, 7 
Aug. 6, '92. 

113. 177. Ezekiel, w. Sarah Sumner, m. Mar. 10, 1773, r. B. and N. H. 

i. Martin, 7 Jly. 11, '73, at B. ; n. Sumner, 7 Jan. 28, '77 ; in. Otis, 7 Apl. 
30, '78. 

116. 181. Asa, w. Melatiah Rockwood, who was appointed adminx. on his estate? 
Au<r. 7, 1792, r. Bell. i. Silvanus, 7 Mar. 8, 1781 ; n. Deborah, 7 Sep. 30, 
'83°; in. Cephas, 7 Nov. 16, '87, r. Woonsocket; iv. Anna, 7 Nov. 23, '90, 
d. June 15, '92. 

118. 185. Amariah, w., Molly Wright, fr. Frank., r. Bell. r. Tryphena, 7 Jan. 
17, 1779, m. Levi Rockwood; n. Abigail, 7 May 12, and d. June 24, 80 : 
ni. Nahum, 7 Apl. 2, '81, m. Susan Rockwood; iv. Amos, 7 Apl. 27, '83, m. 
Lucretia, dg. of Elisha Burr, of Bell. ; v. Amariah, 7 Jan. 23, '85, m. Vina 
Holbrook, Mar. 6, 1806, r. Sandy Hill, N. Y. ; vi. Joel, 7 Feb. 2, '87, m. 
Elpear Stratton, r. Glens Falls, N. Y. ; vn. Abigail, 7 June 2, '89, m. 
Amos Adams, r. B. ; vm. Asa, 7 May 18, '92, m. Mercy New; 2d, Anna 
Smith, r. Dudley ; ix. Nathan, 7 Apl. 8, '91, m. Ruth Albee, r. Barre, (no 
chd.) ; x. Lymar., 7 , m. Hepsibath Freeman, r. Bell. 

144. 196. Henry, w. Elizabeth Cook, b. Jly. 16, 1758, d. May 2,1809; 2d, 
w. Eunice Badger, b. June 17, '69, d. Mar. 10, 1818, r. Bell ; 
197. i. Eliphalet, 7 Apl. 13, '82, was a gunsmith, r. Holl. ; 
246. 198. ii. Eliab, 7 May 6, '84, m. Betsey Ide, had Eliab, and r. Bell. ; 

in. Anna, 7 Mar. 29, '86, r. um. in Bell. ; 
248. 200. iv. Henry, 7 Jly. 31, '90, m. Sarah Trask, r. Oakham. 

147. 201. Peter, w. Mary Bates, d. Apl. 19, 1850, a. 83, r. Swanzey, N. H. ; 

i. Elkanah, 7 Jan. 21, 1788, at Bell. ; n. Julia, 7 Nov. 21, '89, d. Jly. 19, 

1845 ; in. Isaac Bates, 7 Jan. 21, '92 ; iv. Clark Bates, 7 Apl. 11, 94 ; 

v. Mary, 7 Feb. 24, '97, d. Sep. 23, 1854; vi. Peter, 7 Jly. 28, 99, d. Jly. 

30, 1819; vn. Olive, 7 Jan. 26, 1804, at Swanzey, d. Apl. 7, 1849 ; 
263. 209. vm. Helon, 7 Aug. 27, 1807 ; ix. Sophia, 7 May 12, 1812. 

160. 211. Amasa, 7 w. Sabra Ellis, m. Apl. 3, '94, r. Bell. I. Ellis, 8 May 9, 
1795, m. Eliza Allen, r. Frank. ; n. Lewis, 8 Nov. 15, '96, d. Sep. 29, 97 ; 
in. Pliny, 8 Dec. 14, '98, m. Martha Perkins, r. Worcester; iv. Sabra ; 
and v. Sabrina, 8 Aug. 6 and 7, 1800 ; each m. Peter Joice ; vi. Hannah, 
Oct. 13, 1811, r. um., Worcester. 

163. 217. David, 7 w. Anna Ward, d. June 4, 1804, r. Up. and Croydon, had 



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t. Peter, 8 Sep. 9, 1791, m. Betsey Holbrook, his cousin, and had 
I. Leander? Esq., r. Milford ; n. Nathan? d. at do. ab. 1850; 
ii. Anna, 8 Feb. 11, '96, m. Doct Jennings, of Croydon ; in. Batbsheba, 8 
Feb. 25, 1804, m. , r. Lenox. 

165. 221. Nathan/ w., Lydia Hay ward, r. Upton, had i. Margery, 8 m. Asa Lockey, 
r. U. ; ii. Betsey, 8 m. Peter Holbrook, her cousin; in. Lydia, 8 m. Otis C. 
Farrer; iv. Nathan, 8 m. Keziah Bodd or Bodge, r. Up.; v. Mahala, 8 m. 

, r. Guilford, Vt., rm. West ; vi. Serepta, 8 m. , r. Guilford, Vt., and 

rm. West. 



166. 228. Daniel/ w. Sabrinah Ward, d. Feb. 1827, r. Upton; 

239. 229. i. Simeon, 8 Apl. 15, 1798, d. 1852, m. Chlotilda Farrer; 

242. 230. ii. Nahum W., 8 Hn., Bee. 21, 1800, m. Sally Perry ; in. Huldah, 8 Sep. 

1, 1802 (d.), m. Stacy Bosworth, r. U. ; iv. Ann, 8 June 11, '04, ra. 

Andrew A. Wheeler, r. N. Y. ; v. Sarah, 8 Feb. 12, '07, d. Nov. 4, '07 ; 
233. vi. Jona. B., 8 Nov. 11, '08, ra. Lydia Whitney; 2d, Lucy Hutchenson ; 

vii. Melita, 8 Apl. 1, '11, d. aged ab. 18 yrs. ; vin. Julianna, 8 Jly. 18, 

'13, ra. Bavid Bosworth, r. U. ; ix. Baniel, 8 Oct. 7, '15, m. Hayward ; 

2d, Anna BeWolf, r. U. ; x. Ezra W.,° Aug. 18, '18, d. Feb. 18, '20 ; 
262. 238. xi. Ezra W., 9 Sep. 6, '20, m. Polly Hatch, r. U. 

229. 239. Simeon, 8 w., Chlotilda Farrer ; 2d, Nancy Shepard Gore, r. Upton; 

i. Benj., 9 June 8, 1824, m. Lydia M. Lackey, r., a trader in U., had 

Edgar A.™ June 14, 1853; 
n. Ezra, 9 ra. Mary Clark, r. Milfd. ; in. Jane E., 3 m. Augustus Fisk, r. U. ; 
iv. Geo., 9 r. U. ; v. Chloe, 9 ; and by 2d w. VI. Mary E. 9 ; and 
vn. Josephine. 9 

230. 242. Nahum, 8 a prominent citizen of Upton, and her late representative in the 

Leg. of Mass., is the proprietor of mills, 1 m. S. of the centre of U. He m. 
1st, Sally Perry ; and 2d, in 1840, Mary Ann Forbush, and had 
i. Andrew W., 9 May 12, 1829, gone to Australia; n. Sarah M., 9 Apl. 11, 
'30 ; in. Chs. E., 9 Mar. 22, '33, m. Julia J. Bradford, r. Toledo, O. ; 
iv. James, Jan. 17, '35 ; v. Bavid, 9 Mar. 4, '39 ; vi. Wm. H.,° Apl. 6, 
'41; vn. Melita A., 9 June 14, '42; vnr. Harriet E.,° Aug. 11, '43; 
ix. Helen F.,° Jly. 21, '45; x. Baniel W., 9 Jly. 5, '47 ; xi. Nahum A., 8 
June 22, '49 ; xn. Mary S., n June 2, '51, d. Sep. 15, '52; xm. Henry 
C, 8 Jan. 28, '53. 

132. 243. Darius, fi w., Olive, r. Bell, had i. Keziah/ Bee. 1, 1784, d. Bee. 28, 
'92 ; n. Flavius, 7 Jly. 28, '95. 

245. Eliphalet/ w., Julia Dewing, m. Nov. 26, 1812, r. B. i. Harlow W., 8 
May 22, 1814 ; n. Clarissa Lethbridge, 8 Apl. 20, '16 ; in. Gilbert, 8 Feb. 
8, '18 ; iv. Joseph W., 8 Jan. 18, '20 ; v. Julia Ann, 8 Nov. 13, '21 ; 
vi. Eliphalet, 8 Mar. 31, '24; vn. Elisha B., 8 Sep. 1, '26; vin. Henry, 8 
Nov. 18, '29. 

198. 246. Eliab/ w., Betsey Hyde, had i. Elizabeth, 8 June 25, 1811 ; n. Lurania, 8 
Oct. 31, '15 ; in. Eliab, 8 Oct. 8, '17. 

200. 248. Henry/ w., Sarah Trask, r. Oakham, had i. Mary B., 8 m. Asahel C. 
Boyd, r. ; n. James T., 8 Dec. 25, 1820, m. Electa B. Morse, r. Oak- 
ham ; in. Sarah A., 8 June 11, 23, m. John N. Morse, r. Borchester. 



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127. 251. Peter,' 1 w., Polly , r. Mendon, bad i. Henry, 7 Sop. 1, 1786 ; 

258. 253. ii. George/ June 14, '88 j 

259. 254. in. Benj., 7 Jly. 24, '90; iv. Seth, 7 Apl. 24, '93; v. Genet 7 (a son), 

Oct. 8, '95, d. Nov. 21, 1826, a grocer in Bos., was a member of American 
Artillery Co., " to whose festivities be added mucb, by tbe taste and purity of 
bis songs." [His. of A. Co.] ; vi. Betsey T., 7 Sep. 3, 1805. 

251. 258. George, 7 w., Mary, r. Mend. i. Elsworth C., 8 Mar. 17, 1815 ; 
ii. Mary S., 8 May 14, '17 ; in. Geo. R., 8 June 9, '19 ; iv. John S./ Jly. 
21, '21. 

254. 259. Benj./w., Polly, r. Mend. i. Sewall, 8 Jan. 5, 1812; n. Cbs., 8 Dec. 
15, '17; in. BeDJ., 8 Mar. 20, '20; it. Mellen, 8 Dec. 2, '22; v. Delia," 
Sep. 20, '25 ; vi. Albert, 8 Sep. 23, '28 ; vn. Henry, 8 June 10, '33. 

105. 260. Jona./ Lt., w., Anna Patridge, wbo was appointed to administer on bis 
estate, Apl. 2, 1793, r. Medway. i. Molly, 7 Feb. 9, 1772 ; m. Jacob Cutler, r. 
Wendall ; u. Patridge, 7 Dec. 5, '74 ; in. Abner 7 ; it. David, 7 d. in Bos., urn. 



159. ? 261. Stephen, 6 w., Mary Penniman; 2d. w. Chloe, r. Uxb. and Sutton, 
i. Chloe; n. Rachel; in. Martha; iv. Hannah; v. Henry, 7 m. Sarah 
Wadsworth, r. Barre Plains, has Joseph U., 8 rs. Bos. ; vi. Silvanus ; 
vn. Wilder; vin. Ellery; ix. Willard, 7 A. M., Rev., at ITxb. ; fitted for 
Col. at Leicest. Acad. ; grad. at B., U., 1S14, and at And. Theo. Sem., 
1817 ; ord. at Rowley., Jly. 22, 1818 ; honorably dismissed, May 12, '40 ; 
installed at Blackstone, Aug. 18, '41, and dismissed Feb. 19, '50, and re- 
turned to Rowley, where he now resides, supplying neighboring pulpits. He 
m. Margaret, dg. of John Crocker, by w. Margaret Choat, aunt to Hon. 
Rufus C., and had i. Amory, 8 grad. at Bowdoin Col., 1841 ; read law with 

Hon. Rufus C. ; and is Dis. Attorney for Oregon ; n. John C., 8 d. 

1829 ; in. Willard R./ rs. New York. 

238. 262. Ezra W., 9 w. Polly Hatch, rs. Upton, has i. Melissa Adeliza, 10 b. Nov. 
30, 1840; ii. Wm. Henry, 10 Oct. 17, '42; in. SewallB. 10 ; iv. Louisa 10 ; 
v, Son, 10 b. 1854. 



209. 263. Helon, 7 m. Harriet M. ? King, b. Dec. 26, 1821, dg. of Geo. K., of 
New Salem ; and r. Orange, and had i. Harriet M., 8 May 22, 1844, d. Sep. 
8, '44, at O. ; ii. Ann Elizabeth H., 8 Feb. 19, '46, at O. ; in. Maria W., 8 
May 10, '51, at Erving. 

139. 264. Sabin/ w., Mary , b. Mar. 27, 1787, d. 1824--5, r. Dorchester and 

Bell. i. Sabin, 7 jun., Sep. 18, 1813; n. Mary, 7 Nov. 5, 1815, m. Benj. 
F. Johnson ; in. Joseph Warren, 7 Jan. 18, 1817 ; iv. Amanda, 7 June 2, 
1819, m. Nathan Upham ; v. Supply Twyng, 7 Sep. 7, 1821, resides at 
Norwich, Ct., a Professor of music. 



74. 265. Samuel/' s. in Uxbridge, where he died, 1768, leaving a will, dated Sep. 
24, '67, directing his estate to be divided to his two sons and four daughters, 
and the sons to have three times as much as the daughters. His estate was 
inventoried, Sep. 23, '68, at £361 lis. Moses Farnum, executor. He m. 
Lydia Staples, and had i. Jonathan/ m. Abigail Benson, fr. Mend. ; 
267. 266. ii. Daniel/ m. Joanna Benson ; in. Lydia ; iv. Abigail ; v. Han- 
nah ; vi. Deborah/ 



HOLBROOK. 133 

266. 267. Daniel, 6 m. Joanna Benson, fr. Menclon, settled in Chesterfield, N. II., 
was a soldier of the He volution, and had i. Abigail, 7 b. ab. 1783, m. 



Crouch, and rs. Chesterfield ; n. Theresa, 7 b. ab. 1786, d. yg. ; in. Henry 
Benson, 7 b. ab. 1788, m. Deborah Foster, and r. Governeur, N. Y., has two 
sons* lawyers; and several dgs.fm. clergymen ; iv. Marcus, 7 b. ab. 1791, 
m. Abigail Wilds, and r. Lima, 111., has Chs.* M. D., ; Albert* (d.), 

lawyer ; and others* ; 
v. Lydia, 7 b. ab. 1793, m. Daniel Thayer, and r. Chesterfield, and Win- 
chester, N. H. ; 
269. 268. vi. Daniel, 7 jun., b. 1796, m. Malinda Holden, fr. Lunenburg ; 
vir. Susan, 7 b. ab. 179S, m. Lyman Parker, r. Swanzey ; vni. llufus, 7 b. 
ab. 1801, m. Mary Wyman, fr. Keen, r. Ch'stown ; ix. Almira, 7 b. ab. 
1S03, m. Joseph Dwinnel, fr. K., r. Glover, Vt. ; s. Abraham Staples, 7 b. 
ab. 1806, m. Sarah Dearborn, fr. Canda, N. II., r. Lowell; xi. Millins, 7 
b. ab. 1808, m. Laura Temple, of S., and r. Swanzey. 

268. 269. Daniel, 7 settled in Bos. i. Chs. Henry Benson, 8 Mar. 9, 1822, d. Ap. 
15, '35 ; n. Harriet Caroline, 8 Sep. 17, '23, m. John P. Flagg, r. Cam- 
bridge j in. Geo. Edward, s Mar. 30, '26, m. Eliza Miller, of Bos., r. Mel- 
rose ; iv. Josephine Malinda, 8 Dec. 20, '29, m. Alfred Augustus Stocker, 
M. D., r. Charlestown, has Alfred ; v. Andrew Jackson, 8 Aug. 16, '33, rs., 
a clerk in Bos. ; vi. Daniel, 8 jun., Jan. 20, '37, a member of II. University j 
vii. Mary Frances, 8 Dec. 30, '39; vni. Susan Emma, 8 Aug. 1, '43. 

76. 270. Amos," M. D., had his residence in Milton, at first in the village, after- 
wards upon Milton Hill, and was one of the most eminent medical men in the 
county during the whole period in which he lived. He had not the advan- 
tage of a collegiate education ; but this infelicity was more than compensated 
by the experience he acquired in the service of his country as army surgeon, 
and by his subsequent residence for several months in France, where his time 
was profitably occupied in witnessing the practice of the hospitals, and thus 
adding to his stores of practical knowledge. Endowed by nature with an 
elegant person, he added to it a courteousness of address and suavity of man- 
ners which won him favor in whatever circle he moved. He was beloved as 
a physician and citizen, and sustained his popularity undiminished to the 
close of a long life. For many years he engrossed the principal medical 
business of Dorch. as well as Milton. A very just sketch of his character, by 
his friend and pupil, Dr. Thaddeus W. Harris, was published in the Boston 
Courier soon after bis death, and thence copied into the Boston Medical and 
Surgical Journal of Jly. 13, 1842, and subsequently by Dr. Williams into 
his Medical Biography. [Dr. Alden.] Dr. H. d. June 17, 1842, a. 88. 
He m. Melatiah Howard, of Medway, in 1773, who d. Feb. 1, 1782, a. 31, 
and 2d, Patience Vose, of Milton, b. Aug. 14, 1763, d. Mar. 17, '88, a. 
24, and 3d, Jerusha Bobinson, of Dorchester, b. Mar. 11, '64, d. Nov. 21, 
1838, a. 73, s. in Milton, and had 

i. Samuel, 7 Cpt., Aug. 15, 1773, m. June 8, 1800, Sarah (Mears) Bobinson, 
who d. Mar. 29, 1801, r. Dorchr., sailed fr. Providence in the employ of the 
De Wolfs, for N. W. Coast, Jly. 31, 1800 ; was lost on the return voyage, ab. 
Feb. 22, 1802. He had i. Geo. Thomas* b. Mar. 14, 1801, d. Aug. 30, 1810 ; 
ii. Polly, 7 May 6, 1775; in. Betsey Allen, 7 Dec. 26, 1778, m. Amasa 
Fuller, of D., Feb. 12, 1814 ; iv. Charles Harvey, 7 Aug. 9, '81, d. May, '82 j 
v. Clarissa, 7 Aug. 23, '84, by 2d wife, and who m. Mar. 20, 1810, Dr. 
Henry Gardner, of Dorchester, and had 



134 II O LB ROOK. 

I. Clarissa Holbrooh Gardner? Feb. 10, 1811, d. Jly. 11, '36; 

ii. Henry Joseph Gardner, 8 June 14, 1818, m. Nov. 21, 1843, Helen 

Elizabeth Cobb ; was chosen Gov. of Mass., for 1855, has Henry G. ;° 

in. Matilda Susanna? Aug. 1G, 1822, d. Aug. 28, '41 ; 
vi. AVm., 7 Sep. 22, 1790, d. Aug. 27, '94 ; vn. Sarah Perkins, 7 Jlv. 14, 
1794, m. Nov. 20, 1816, Wm. Ellery Vincent, of Dorch. and Bos., had 

i. Wm. H? Aug. 14, 1818; n. Sarah Ellen? Apl. 24, '20; 

in. Geo. H? Oct. 12, '26 ; 
vin. Wm., 7 May 27, 1795, d. Feb. 12, 1812; ix. Catherine, 7 Jiy. 6, 
1799, d. Jan. 29, 1801; x. George, 7 Jan. 6, 1802, d. Jan. 29,1806; 
xi. Catherine, 7 May 31, 1804, m. Thaddeus W. Harris, A. M., M. D., 
son of Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., formerly of Dorch., who is the 
Librarian of Harvard University, and the American Entomologist, and had 

i. Wm. Thaddeus? Jan. 25, 1826, A. M., LL. B., d. Oct. 19, '54. 

For the history of this amiable and eminent young man, to whose 

labors I am much indebted, see Genealogical Register, Vol. ix. p. 99 ; 

ii. Sarah Catherine? Nov. 7, 1827, d. Sep. 10, '28; in. Harriet 

Gardner? Jan. 2, '29 ; iv. Emma Forbes?I)ec. 16, '30 ; v. Charles? 

Oct. 2, '32 ; vi. Catherine? Oct. 2, '32 ; vn. Amos Holhrook? Jly. 

9, '34 ; vin. Clarendon? Mar. 24, '36 ; ix. Edward Doubleday? 

Sep. 20, '39; x. Tho. Robinson? Jim. 15, '42; xi. Mary Elizabeth? 

Nov. 1, '44. 



31. 271. Josiah, 5 a soldier in two French wars, r. at Sturbridge; and 2d, at 
Adams; and 3d, at Pompey, N. Y., where he d. He m. Peggy Ives; 
and 2d, Mary Moffett, and had i. Josiah, 6 who ra. Rachel Wright, r. 
Pompey, N. Y., and had i. Silas 7 ; n. Eestus 7 ; in. Josiah Gates 7 ; 
iv. Adolphus 7 ; v. Samuel W. 7 ; vi. Abigail 7 ; vn. Rachel 7 ; 
vin. Electa 7 ; ix. Amanda 7 ; x. Martha 7 ; 
ii. Silas, 6 who m. Terza or Thirsa Taylor, in Vt., r. Sipio, N. Y., and had 

i. Silas Arms 7 (Judge), r. Coldwater, Mich. ; and six others ; 
in. David," Doct., b. Jly. 28, 1760, d. Nov. 29, 1832. He was a soldier 
of the Revolution, and received a wound in the battle of Bennington. He 
settled in Lafayette, N. Y., as a physician, m. Mehetabel Wells, fr. Goshan 
N. Y., who d. at L., aged 58 yrs. They had i. Charles A. 7 Jly. 28 
1782, m. Lois Holcomb, r. Salina, had Emily 8 (d.) ; Mary, Albert 

Menry, Emeline, 
ii. David? Feb. 14, 1786 (d.) ; m. George W.? Sep. 20, 1790, m 
Sally Cadwell, Mar. 4, 1817, r. Fleming, N. Y., had Mehetabel, 8 Apl 
11, 1818 ; Sally, 8 Apl. 23, '19 ; David C., 8 Oct. 16, '20 ; Eliza, 
Oct. 5, '21 ; Clarena, 8 Jan. 8, '23 ; Geo. E., 8 Jly. 19, '24; Mar 
garet L., 8 Sep. 15, '25 ; Marcy C., s Jly. 14, '27 ; Emily C., 8 Sep 
23, '28 ; Henry W., 8 Nov. 17, '29 ; Alina, 8 1831 (d.) ; 
iv. Henry? Feb. 28, 1798, m. Mary Cornell, r. Turkeyfoot, Somerset 
Co., Pa., had Chs. H ; Eggleton W. ; David B. ; Hiram M., &c. ; 
v. Hiram? Aug. 2, 1803, m. Mary Ives, b. Jan. 1, 180G, m. Jan. IS, 
'27, and had Cornelia, m. Pulaski King ; Nancy A., m. Landon C Rose ; 
vi. Emily? June 19, 1806, m. Conrad Hotalin, b. Aug. 31, 1800, r. 
Lafayette, N. Y., had Garrett, 8 Nov. 30, '26 ; Nancy, 8 Dec. 3, '27, d. 
yg. ; David II., 8 Aug. 25, '29 ; Cornelia, 8 Sep. 1, '32 ; Geo. W., 8 
Aug. 2, '34 ; Ellen A., 8 Apl. 22, '36 ; Hiram M., 8 May 7, '38 ; 
Albert T., 8 Dec. 26, '40; Wm. D., 8 Dec. 0, '42; Chs. E., 8 Aug. 
21, '14; Guy T., 8 Oct. 14, '46; 



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iv. Walter, who d. urn. in Steuben Co., N. Y. ; v. Margaret, 11 m. Hazel 
Gates, r. Springfield ; vi. Baruck, m. Diada Duguid, r. Columbus, 0., had 

i. Mary 1 ; 11. Albert' ; in. Eunice' ; iv. Artesmesia 7 ; v. Joseph 7 ; and 

six others ; 
vn. Luke, who m. Ellen Duguid, r. Pompey, and had i. Socrates 7 ; 

II. George 7 ; in. Wm. 7 ; it. Harvey 7 ; v. Altamira 7 ; vi. Emily. 7 



59. 272. Richard, 3 went from " Mendham," now Mendon to Wiseasset, Me., m. 

, and had I. Peter, who settled in Starks, Somerset Co., Me. ; 

ii. Joseph, master of a vessel, s. at Baltimore, Md. ; in. Benj.,° master of 
do., d. ab. 1852, at Starks, Me.; iv. John, who s. in Jefferson, Me.; 
v. Richard, master of a vessel, r. Wiseasset ; 
281. 278. vi. Solomon, a farmer, r. Wiseasset; vn. Betsey, m. Cpt. Richard 
Nutter; vin. Susan, 6 m. Amasa Soule, of Palermo, Me. ; ix. Sarah, who 
m. Cpt. John Decker ; x. Other children, not reported. 



278. 281. Solomon, m. Abigail Nason, and had at W. I. John, 7 who d. at Cuba, 
urn. ; n. Sarah H., m. Stephen Elliot; in. Samuel, 7 b. Jly. 25, 1801, m. 
Lucy K. Parsons, rs. at Boston, as Water Clerk, had i. Edwin M. 8 m. 

Nancy Gilbert, and rs. at Ogdensburgh, N. Y. ; n. Lucy K. P. 8 ; 

in. Annie E., 8 d. a. 17; iv. Margaret P. 8 ; v. Maria Louisa 8 ; 

vi. Seioell 8 ; 

iv. Abigail, 7 um. ; v. Joseph, 7 who m. ■ Nutting, rs. at Cambridge ; 

vi. Solomon, 7 who m. Mary Nutting, and rs. at Waltham ; vn. Betsey, 7 

um. ; vin. Abraham N., 7 who m. Rittle, and d. at Wiseasset ; 

ix. Bradford Y., 7 who m. Susan Greenleaf; 2d, Read, r. W. ; 

x. Maria M., 7 who m. Wadlugh, rs. in N. H. ; xi. Helen S., 7 d. um. ; 

xn. Mary, 7 who m. Adams, rs. at Watham. 



CHAPTER III. 



4. William Holbrooke, 2 Capt. and Dea., purchased in 1660, land in Coni- 
hasset, but did not, as Rev. Mr. Deane supposes, settle early upon it. He 
remained at Weym. In 16G2, he was one of 10 citizens of W, who were 
accepted to allotments of land in Mendon, by the original grantee of that township, 
and was with associates to be settled there by 7mo., 1G63. He there had a house lot 
of 40 acres assigned him, which with his interest in the eommon'lands he must have 
secured by taking possession. This lot he sold, Dec. 2, 1679, to his nephew Peter; 
and other lands which he, as a proprietor of Mendon, drew, he sold to his brothers, 
John and Tho. In 1670, he bought of Moses Paine 40 acres E. of Mendon village. 
His propriety was inherited by his heirs, who as late as 1729 drew in his right 1G5 
acres W. of Great River [Uxbridge]. He was, no doubt, an inhabitant of M. at 
the beginning of Philip's war, and must have shared with others in the burning of 
the town, and the perils of Indian w r arfare. In 1C7G, he is supposed to have retreated 
with his family to W., and to have afterwards been a steady resident at Scituate. 
He lived near the road from Cohasset to Scituate, "^m. W. of Capt. Pierce's." 
[Dean's His. of Scit.] I have met with no account of any settlement of his estate. 
He m. Elizabeth , who d. his wid. at Scit., 1701. He had, 



136 HOLBROOK. 

12. 5. i. Win, 3 Ens., b. 23, (4), 1657, at Weym., d. Nov. 19, 1710, at Mend. 

13. G. ii. Cornelius, 3 19, (9), 1662, at W., m. Margery . 

20. 7. in. Samuel,"' b. pr. at Mendon, d. Oct. 27, 1719 ; iv. John," b. pr. at 

Mendon, d. May 3, 1721; v. Millccent, 3 who m. Sprague, 2d, 

Peck ; vi. Persis, 3 who m. John Farrow, 1696 ; vn. Experience, 3 who m. 
Albee, 2d, Hyde ; and two other daughters. 



12. Win., 3 Ens., m. Margaret Fairbank, at Sherborn, whose father was near 
neighbor to bis father's reputed cousin, Tho. Holbrook, and not on the route 
from Weymouth to Mendon. He settled at Mendon, on lands drawn in his 
father's right, and was one of the aristocracy of the village. He was rich. 
He " gent.," and pr. a merchant, made his will, Nov. 15, 1714, which was 
proved, Dec. 16, 1714; and administration granted bis wid., Margaret, llev. 
Grendall Puvwson, Tho. Sanford, and his kinsman, Samuel Head, jun. In 
his will he mentions no child or grandchild. [Suff. Prob., 18, 204.] He had, 
i. Mary, Dec. 18, 1684, d. Jan. 22, 1684 ; n. Margaret, July 28, 1687, 
d. Nov. 28, 1687 ; in. Wm., Mar. 28, 1693-4, pr. d. yg. 



6. 13. Cornelius, 3 m. Margery , 2d, Experience , who d. Jan. 19, 1742, 

s. in S. Weym., pr. on land left him by his father. He made his will, Feb. 
4, 1741, which was proved, Dec. 24, 1742, and administration granted his son 
Wm. [Suff. Prob., 36, 119.] He bad, i. Mehetabel, 4 Mar. 10, 1687, m. 

1 Corbet; n. Margaret, 4 d. unm., 1764, and her " only brother, Wm.," 

June 14, '65, appointed to admin, on her estate. [Suff. Prob.] ; 

in. Experience, 4 who m. Timothy Thayer, Apl. 24, 1725 ; iv. Elizabeth, 4 

May 23, 1695, m. Samuel Jackson, of Abington, Jan. 17, 1715-16 ; 

v. Abigail, 4 Aug. 19, 1G97, m. Jones ; vi. Mary, 4 m. Ebenr. Bick- 

nell, Jam 30, 1726-7. 
25. 19. vn. Wm., 4 July 4, 1709, m. Margaret Torry ; 
vin. Hannah, 4 Feb. 9, 1711, d. yg. 

7. 20. Samuel, 3 settled with his father in Scituate, where he was constable, 16 t Sf>. 

His wid., Mary, d. Apl. 26, 1735; i. Bethia, 4 Apl. 2, 1681 ; n. Elizabeth, 4 
1684 ; in. Mary, 4 Nov. 2, 1686, m. Eleazer Daniell, 1709. 
31. 24. iv. Samuel, 4 Feb. 9, 1688, m. Jane Clapp, Dec. 15, 1708. 

19. 25. Wm., 4 settled at Weym., inheriting probably and occupying the land in S. 
Weym., originally his grd. father AVm.'s. 2 He m. Feb. 20, 1783-4, Mar- 
garet Torry, who d. July 29, '36 ; and 2d, Elizabeth Pool, whose intention of 
ra. was entered, Jan. 15, 1738, and he m. " May 11, '39 ; " made his will, 
Nov. 23, '64, giving to his daughter Mary, his Negro girl, £13, and the 
goods which he had by his last wife. Also, one fifth of his estate to Elizabeth, 
Hannah, Samuel and Silas Holbrook, the children of his son, Samuel, de- 
ceased. To his sons, Abner, Nathaniel, Adam, and Wm., he bequeathed 
the residue of his property, making the two first executors. His lands were 
not assigned to his heirs, until July 6, 1784. He had, i. Wm., 5 Oct. 20, 
1734, who d. July 21, '36. 

40. 26. ii. Samuel, 5 Dec. 2, 1735, m. Elizabeth Shaw, and d. prior to Nov. 23, '64 ; 
in. Wm., 5 Mar. 16, 1739-4, by w. Elizabeth, d. a soldier, at Lake George. 

44. 27. iv. Abner, 5 Mar. 9, 1741, d. May 31, 1788; v. Cornelius, 5 d. Dec. 14, '42. 

54. 28. vi. Nathaniel, 5 Mar. 7, 1744, m. Hannah Torrey ; vn. Margaret, 5 b. Feb. 
16, and died June 31, 1747 ; vin. Adam, 5 Aug. 4, 1750, d. a. 82, was 
non compos, had been under the guardianship of bro. Abner, 18 yrs. in '88, 



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137 



when Wm. was appointed ; ix. Margaret, 5 Apl. 18, 1754, d. unm., after 
July 12, 1790 ; x. Mary, 5 in. John? Hunt, rm. to Curainington. 
57. 30. xi. Wm., 5 was 21 in 1784. He settled in E. Abington, d. Sep., 1832. 

24. 31. Samuel, 4 m. Jane Clapp, Dec. 15, 1708, r. in Scituate, and had, 

i. Hannah, 5 Oct. 23, 1710 ; n. Mary, 5 July 22, 1712, in. Jacob Lincoln ; 
in. Bethiah, 5 Apl. 28, 1716 ; iv. Jane, 5 Jan. 8, 1719 ; v. Lydia, 5 June 13, 
1722 ; vi. Priscilla, 5 Apl. 18, 1724 ; vn. Desire, 5 Dec. 28, 1726. 
39. vin. Samuel, 5 Feb. 1, 1729, whose m. with Sarah Pierce was entered, Aug. 
30, 1751. A widow. Sarah Holbrook ? d. at Weyin., whose estate, Apl. 9, 
1783, was divided to Benj. Farrow, Mary Cothall, Joseph and Tamer Carriell, 
Samuel and Mary Hatch, Amos and Abigail Damon, David and Christian 
Foster and Leah Farrow. Whose wid., was she? 
ix. William, 5 Dec. 21, 1733, d. Jan. 27, 1737. 

26. 40. Samuel 5 m. Elizabeth Shaw, Apl. 11, 1754, (who m. 2d, Joshua Bayley, 

and rm. to Me.,) r.Weym.,and had, i. Samuel, who died unm. in the army. 
ii. Silas.' 1 Apl. 6, 1757, m. Sarah Stockbridge, 1777, had 1. Susannah, 7 Feb. 
20, 1779, at Weym., 2. Silas, who d. in the navy in the war of 1812 ; 
in. Elizabeth," went with her mother to Frecport, Me. 
iv. Hannah, 5 m. Col. Tho. Vincent, r.„S. Weym. 

27. 44. Abner, 5 m. Jerusha Vining, 1763, r. at Weym., d. intestate, May 29, 

1788, and administration was granted to his wid., Jerusha, and £40 of his 
estate decreed to her. He had i. Betty, 6 Apl. 29, 1764, d. unm., '89. 

64. 45. ii. John, 6 Oct. 25, 1765, m. Sally Burrell, r. S. Weym. ; in. Abner, 6 Dec. 
26, 1767, d. yg. j iv. Sarah, 6 Jan. 22, 1770, d. unm., Aug. 15, 1843. 

69. 47. v. Abner, 6 Jan. 21, 1772, m. Mehetabel Beals, 1796, r. S. Weym. ,' 

75. 48. vi. David, 6 Jan. 30, 1774, d. Aug. 19, 1844, m. Hannah Holbrook, dau. 
of Nathl., rs. S. Weym. ; vn. Jerusha, 6 May 30, 1776, m. lleuben Pack- 
ard, rm. to Me. 

79. 50. vin. James, 6 Oct. 16, 1779, m. Hannah Bates, r. S. Weym. 

87. 51. ix. Jacob, 6 Oct. 20, 1782, m. Nov. 6, 1807, Dolly Blanchard, rs. S. Wey. 
x. Lydia, 6 Feb. 16, 1784, m. Lemuel Payn, r. S. Weym. 

91. 53. xi. Daniel, 6 Apl. 3, 1787, m. Deb. Shaw, 2d, Lyd. (Vining) Holbrook. 

28. 54. Nathaniel, 5 m. Hannah Torry, Nov. 24, 1768, r. Weym., had, 
100. 55. i. Nathaniel, 6 Feb. 26, 1770, m. Mehetabel Torrey, Dec. 17, 1792 ; 
ii. Benj., 6 ra. Huldah Pratt, Sep. 11, 1794, who left no children, 
in. Polly, 6 Jan. 14, 1776, m. John Dyer, Dec. 25, '94 ; iv. Abigail, 6 m. 
Micah Pool, rs. E. Ab. ; v. Hannah, 6 m. David Holbrook ; vi. Buth, m. 
Tho. White, r. S. Weym. ; vn. Susanna, 6 Dec. 15, 1780, ra. Noah Terrell, 
jun., July 8, 1807. 

30. 57. Wm., 5 m. 01ive*Blanchard, Jan. 10, 1782, r. E. Abington; i.Wm., 6 Apl. 
3, 1785, at Abington, m. Polly Jenkins, r. E. Ab. ; n. Reuben, 6 m. Betsey 
Lovell, r. E. Abington; in. Josiah, 6 Sep. 23, 1788, m. Hannah Smith, r. E. 
Ab. ; iv. Richard, 6 m. Anna Bead, rs. E. Abington ; v. Zenas, 6 m. Mary Pool, 
rs. E. Ab. ; vi. Olive, 6 m. Melvin Gurney, rs. E. Ab. ; vn. Betsey, 6 d. yg. 

45. 64. John, 6 m. Sally Burrell, pub. Apl. 11, '95, r. S. Weym., had i. John, 7 m. 
Polly Lovell, 1815, rm. to Chicago ; n. Silas, 7 Mar. 6, 1796, rs. unm. at S. 
Weym.; in. Arvin, 7 m. Sarah Keen, r. E. Bridgewater ; iv. Eliza,' m. 
1822, John Curtis, rs. E. Abington. 

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138 HO LB ROOK. 

47. GO. Aimer,* m. Mehetabel Beales, 1790, r. S. Wevra. ; i. Asa, 7 Mar. 1, 1798, 

m. Lucetta Trufanfc, Nov. 30, 1826, r. R Weym., 2d, Deb. F. Torrey, Mar. 
22, '36, and 3d, Caroline (Cropsey) Trufant, ]\Iar. 6, '54, rs. a manufr. 
at S. Weym. and has Lydia B., 8 and Asa P. 8 ; 
ii. Ira, 7 Mar. 22, 1805, m. Mary L. Pratt, June 21, 1830, rs. S. W., has, 

Mehetabel, 8 Ansel? Susan C.?J. Quincy A., s Fananda A.? Henry F? 
in. Abner, 7 Mar. 11, 1811, m. Abigail Gushing, 1831, 2d, Lydia Lovell, 
Mar. -2-2, '43-51, rs. S. Weym., has Alanson? Melvina F? Abner? Jo.W? 
.v. Ansel, 7 Nov. 9, 1812, d. yg. 
v. Ben]., 7 Jan. 31, '17, m. Pyrena Young, rs. S. Weym., and lias, Samuel 

M.? Henry G'., 8 Walter C? 
vi. Thais, 7 June 13, '15, m. Chs. Totman, has Anthony Z., who rs S. W. 

48. 75. David, m. Oct. 2G, 1800, Hannah Holbrook, "his coup.," 2d, Chloe Pratt. 

1814, was a very judicious and efficient man and devout Christian, and d. Aug. 
19, '44, greatly lamented, r. S. Weym. ; i. Lucy, 7 Nov. 2, 1801, d. May 
29, 1827, unm. ; n. Laura, 7 Dec. 28, 1803, died young; in. Mary, 7 Oct. 
24, 1807, d. Feb. 24, 1825 ; iv. Jason, 7 May 30, 1810, m. Caroline White, 
Nov. 29, 1832, r. W., had Jason S., s Hanh. T.? Geo., 8 Fred H 8 

50. 79. James," m. Hannah Bates, 1803, r. S. Weym. ; i. Orin, 7 July 23, 1804, 
m. Oct. 14, 1824, Lydia T. Vining, had Charles Everett and Geo. A. ; 
ii. Minot, 7 Nov. 22, 1805, m. Sep. 30, 1829, Lavinia Littlefield, r. do. 
in. Edmond, 7 Nov. 8, 1808, d. unm., at W. ; iv. Louisa, Nov. 14, 1812 ; 
v. James, 7 Jan. 31, 1815 or 16, m. Eliz. Jane Terrell, r. S. Wey. ; 
vi. Hannah, Mar. 27, 1817, m. Alanson Cushing, Aug. 14, 1834 ; 
vn. Wm., 7 Mar. 20, 1820, m. July IS, 1839, Lucy B. Sampson, r. do. ; 
vili. Jeremiah, 7 Dec. 15, 1821, m. Elizabeth Hunt, r. do. Lucy Ann, May 
15, 1827 ; ix. Cornelius, 7 Jan. 9, 1822, gone to California ; x. Belinda, Feb. 
14, 1825; xi. Lucy Ann, May 15, 1827. 

51. 87. Jacob, m. Dolly Blanchard, r. S. Weym. ; i. Ruth, 7 Nov. 24, 1811, m. 
Luther Dyer, and d. without issue ; n. Tho., 7 July 22, 1813, m. Mary A. 
Read, rs. E. Weym., has, Tho. F., 8 and Ruth. 8 

in. Jacob, 7 Dec. 13, 1818, m. Betsey Jane Torrey, rs. S. Weym., has, 
Orin P.? and Chs. Sumner. 8 



53. 91. Daniel, m. Deborah Shaw; 2d, Lydia T. (Vining) Holbrook, rs. E. Ab. 
i. Daniel Alden, 7 d. unm. ; n Osbert, 7 m. Catherine Holbrook, his cous., 
r. do. ; in. David, 7 rs. unm., at do. ; iv. Quincy, 7 m. Sarah Leavett, r. do. 
v. John, 7 rs. unm., at do. ; vi. Wm., 7 rs. do. do. ; vn. Eliza Ann, 7 in. Ad- 
dison Pratt, rs. E. Bridgewater ; vm. Sarah, 7 m. Jas. Gardner, rs. E. Ab. 

55. 100. Nathaniel, m. Mehetabel Torrey, Dec. 17, 17-92, r. Weym., had, 

i. Cyrus, 7 Oct. 6, 1793, rs. unm., S. Weym. ; n. Betsey, 7 Feb. 14, 1796, 

m. tho. Whitman, rs. S. Weymouth, has Benj. W. 

in. David, 7 Sep. 26, 1799, m. Ann Rice, Oct. 4, 1821, rs. S. Weym., has, 

i. Betsey, m. Joshua C. Sprague ; n. Ann 3L, m. Joseph Vining. 
iv. Ludovicus, 7 Sep. 4, 1805, m. Jane V. Tirrell, Jan. 19, 1825. 

i. Richmond A., 8 July 17, 1826, m. Emeline W. Terrell, rs. S. Wey., 
has, Emma F. 9 

ti. Ludovicus, July 11, '33, d. Dec. 17, '45 ; in. Sarah J., Mar. 17, 

'35, d. Oct. 7, '42; iv. Nathl. E., Nov. 7, '44, d. Sep. 27, '45 ; 

v. Leonard O., Jan. 25, '46, r. S. Wey. 



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PART II. 

John ? Holbrook, 1 is presumed to have been early of Weymouth, and the brother 
of Tho., 1 of W. [sec p. 108], and the father of the following children, whom 
numerous circumstances indicate to have been brothers. If he was not one 
of the two, he had either deceased prior to the declining of a Tho. and John 
Holbrook to remove to Rehoboth, in 1644, or removed with his sons to 
Dorchester, now Milton, or perhaps to the N. part of Sloughton, where the 
necessity for a removal would have been answered in a wide range for their 
cattle, and in wet prairies for hay. 
8. 2. i. Tho.,- b. pr. ab. 1627, at Wcy., d. Ap. 11, 1705, r. Dorch., 1645--'52, 
and Sherborn, 1652 — 1705. [See Ch i.] 

ii. Richard,-' who with Wm. Daniel, of Dorch., took the freeman's oath, May 
10, 1 1 S , pr. removed to Huntington, Long Island, [Farmer.] He seems 
to have been induced to purchase a house lot at Sherborn, where he was 
rated 8^d. in 1686, but never r. there. ^ 

in, Margaret, 2 who m., as his 2d w., in 1656, Nicholas Rocket, of Medfield, 
neighbor to Tho. Holbrook,- then of Bogistow, afterwards Sherborn, was pr. 
tho sis. of Tho.,- or his sis. -in-law, the wid. of his late brother Nathaniel. 2 
IV. John, 2 a tanner, was of Roxb., 1667, and of Dorchr., 1671, d. at Roxb., 

Dec. 25, 1678, m. Elizabeth , who by her 2d bus., had her last child, 

Jan. 16, 1682-8. He also became the owner of a house lot at Sherborn 
where he or his estate was also rated 8^d, 1686. He never r. at S. [See 
Ch. n.] 

v. Daniel, 2 " Brother of John, of Roxb.," d. 1673, m. Miriam _, r. Ded., 

lloxb., Dorchr. [See Ch. in.] 

vi.V Samuel, 2 senr., of W., m. Mary , named a dau. Hopestill, as if in 

affectionate remembrance of a deceased dau. of his supposed brother Tho., 2 
of Sherborn, who was unm, in 1696. According to Judge Mitchell's His. of 
Bridgewater, Samuel, " late of Weym.," d. about 1696, leaving 7 children and 
three daugs. married. He left no son, grd. son or nephew bearing his name ; 
but the first grandchild of Tho., 2 of Sherborn, b. after his death, and whose 
name, according to almost invariable usage, should have been Tho., was 
called Samuel : and the amount of intercourse kept up by the Holbrooks of 
Sherborn, with those of Weym., would indicate that the seat of the family 
continued at Weym., and that their nearest and most coniidential and helpful 
relatives resided there. Further than this, I have discovered no reason for 
arranging his name as I have done. The names given to his children were 
nearly identical with those of the other A\ r eym. Holbrooks. If Judge 
Mitchell has made no mistake, he could not have been Samuel, No. 13, 
Ch. i., Part i., who d. 1695, at Weymouth, leaving also 7 children, and 3 
of them daus. Tho., senr.'s will renders it improbable that this Samuel was 
his son. [See Ch. iv.] 

vn. Nathaniel, pr., who pr. died without issue, for whom Tho., 3 at Sherborn, 
named his oldest son. 



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CHAPTER I. 

2. 8. Thomas Holbrook,'-' in company with Geo. Allen. & Anthony Fisher, of Dor- 
chester, was admitted to the freeman's oath, May, 1645, implying that he 
was already a member of the Chh. and of age. In 1648, he purchased of 
Elizabeth, wid. of Col. Israel Stoughton, 30 acres of land in Dorch. This was the 
first real estate in D. discovered to have been owned by one of the name On 
8, (3rno.) 1652, he with Nicholas Wood and Andrew Pitcher, of D. [now Milton] 
purchased of Richard Parker, of Bos., to whom it had been granted by the Gen. 
Court, in 1649, 535 acres in the woods, on the W. side of Charles R., now in the 
S. E. part of Sherborn, including the lower meadows on SewalFs Br. This they so 
divided as to give him building sites where Dexter Amsden resides, and at Death's 
Bridge. He built his first house at the latter place, where the trace is still to be 
seen, and where he raised an extensive orchard, with the produce of which he prac- 
tised such hospitality as secured his buildings from the torch of the enemy while 
those of his nearest neighbor on the other side of the stream were laid in ashes. In 
1657 he petitioned for the high rocky point E. of Parker's grant, now called the 
Neck, and the Gen. Court granted him 50 acres, he purchasing 43 acres more of the 
government, including the entire tract between their first purchase and the R. In 
1662 and '74 he signed petitions for the incorporation of S., and became one of the 
proprietors of this extensive township. In 1666, he had erected a new dwelling 
house where Dexter Amsden resides, and that year deeded 80 acres of his first 
purchase of Parker, to his brother-in-law, Henry Leland, who had already occupied 
it 12 years. In 1682, he owned 300 acres of the early grants, and with the nine 
other owners extinguished the Indian claims. In 1682 and '84, he drew 112 acres 
of the common lands of S., and in 1686 he out of 40 freeholders, was rated the 4th 
in amount to satisfy the Indian claims to these lands. He served as selectman in 
1690, and was one of the six brethren to constitute the Chh. in S., at its formation, 
in 1685. He d. Apl. 11, 1705. 

Tho. Holbrook, 2 senr., of Sherborn, made his will May, 1704, giving his home- 
stead to his son, Eleazer; and all his neck of land in S. r except a piece of 
meadow, to his son, Tho. To his son, Nathaniel, he gave his little lot (| acre) near 
[S. W. of] the Meeting-house, also a lot S. of Brown's meadow, and the piece of 
meadow above excepted. To his son, John, he gave 20 acres of his 1st dividend 
land, next to Abraham Cousins'. To his dau., Experience Mcintosh, £10, and 18 
acres, another part of his first division of common lands, near Cousins'. To 
his dau., Hannah Battle, £10, and 5 acres of his first dividend land, near 
C's. To Patience Leland, £10, and 15 acres (the Hope-field), near do., and 
2 acres and 40 rods, near her husband's house ; and to Susanna Morse, wife 
of Daniel M., he made similar bequests. To his grandchildren, Edmund, 
Margaret and Elizabeth Morse, children of his dau., Bethia Morse, £8, viz., 
"£5 to the boy, and 20s. apiece to the girls, when of age." Eleazer was 
cxr. ; and Ebenr., Jeremiah and Joseph Daniell, senr., witnesses. Will, 
probated Apl. 23,1705. [Mid. Prob. ] He m. 1st, Experience ? Leland, 
dau. of Hopestill L., by w. Experience, ? of Weymouth, and sis. of Henry 
L., of S. ; and 2d, Hannah Shepard, 28 (3), 1656, at Medfd., and pr. 
fr. Weym., who d. Aug. 28, 1668 ; and 3d, Margaret Bouker, fr. Weym., 
dau. of a Swede, Jan. 26, 1668-9, who d. Apl. 9, 1690; and 4th, Mary 
Rogers, of Weym., Oct. 31, 1693. His partiality to the females of W., 
indicates that he had been reared among them. He had 

i. Experience, 3 m. Wm. Mcintosh, r. Dedham ; n. Abigail, 3 baptized at 



HOLBROOK. 141 

Dorchester, May 22, 1648, pr. d. yg. ; in. Hannah, 3 m. John Battle, of 

Dedham, in 1678 ; iv. Nathaniel, 3 Mar. 6, 1658, d. Nov. 6, 1676, killed 

by a tree ; 
13. 9. v. Tho., 3 Sep. 2, 1659 ; d. 1717-18, m. Mary Bouker ; 2d, Mary , 

both fr. Weym. ; 
15. 10. vi. Eleazer, 3 Dec. 20, 1660, d. Feb. 28, 1725-6, m. Sarah Pond, fr. 

Bed. ;\vn. Patience, 3 Jan. 27, 1669-70, d. Oct. 5, 1740, m. Hopestill 

Leland ; vm. Hopestill, 3 a dau., 2 (5), 1671, d. yg. This was a female 

name in the race of John 1 ; 
18 11. ix. John, 3 d. Feb. 28, 1740, m. ab. 1694, Silence Wood, b. Feb. 

1675--6 ; x. Bethia, 3 d. prior to May, 1704, m. Samuel Morse, b. Aug. 10, 

1676 ; xi. Susanna, 3 d. 1717, m. 1696, Daniel Morse, who was b. Jly. 10, 

1672; 
23. 12. xn. Nathaniel"; 2d, June 20, 1677, d. Oct. 14, 1716, m. for his last wife, 

Elizabeth Sheffield, Jan. 18, 1714-15. 



9. 13. Tho., 3 inherited tho homestead at Death's Bridge, served as a constable, 
1694 ; surveyor, '95 and '98 ; tythingman, 1702, commissioner of assess- 
ments, '06 and '09, and selectman, 1710. He made his will, May 23, 
1713, giving to his widow, Mary, the improvement of all his estate, until his 
8. Samuel should become of age, when he should possess one-half of his 
homestead, and all his meadow in Medfd., and she the whole of his estate at 
Weym., in lands that came by her. After her decease, Sam. should inherit 
all his lands. To his dau., Lydia, he gave £5, and to Thankful, when of age, 
£60. To his grd. s., Eleazer Perry, he gave £20. Mary was sole exr. 
Will proved, Mar. 13, 1717-18. Edmd. Gookin and Wm. Eider, witns. 
He m. Mary Bowker, Jan. 20, 1684, who d. Dec. 1692 ; and 2d, Mary, fr. 
Weym., whose will, proved Nov. 18, 1737, gave £3 to the chh., and consid- 
erable sums to dau. Thankful and " her 11 grd. children." He had 
i. Mary, Feb. 26, 1685, m. Eleazer Perry, 1705; n. Lydia, Sep. 6, 
1694, d. 1723-6, m. Doct, Jona. Fairbanks, of S. ; 
25 14. in. Samuel, 4 Aug. 23, 1699, m. Kezia Morse; iv. Thankful,' June 21, 
1705, m. Wm. Barron, for 2d w., and had Wm. 



10. 15. Eleazer, 3 Hn., inherited the N. part of the homestead, and resided where 
Dexter Amsden does. He served as commissioner, 6 years, selectman, 4 
years ; representative, 1711 and '20. He drew in 1715, in Doug., 77 acres, 
and d. intestate, 1725-6, the proprietor of 300 acres, in Holl., and his estate 
was inventoried at £2,084 13. 6d. 

27. 16. i. Daniel, 4 May 8, 1699, m. Elizabeth Clark, fr. Medfd. ; n. Abigail," 
Mar. 1701-2, m. Joseph Perry, of S., and inherited £174 ; 

32. 17. in. Eleazer, 4 Feb. 26, 1704-5, m. Deborah Bullard, dg. of Cpt. Sam. ; 
iv. Sarah, 4 Oct. 20, 1707, d. yg. ; v. Anne, 4 who was in her loth year, May 3, 
1726, had her br., Eleazer, for her guardian. 



11. 18. John, 3 m. Silence Wood, b. Feb. 22, 1675-6, whose father, Jona. W.. 
was massacred by Indians the day before, and her mother expired soon after. 
She d. intestate, May 11, 1756. Her husband had d. intestate about 15 ys. 
previous ; and Ezra, their son, was now, June 3, '56, appointed admr. to 
settle such of their estates as the heirs had not already settled. John served 
as constable, 1697; sealer of leather, 1705-32; commissioner of assess- 
ments, 1715 ; tythingman, '04; selectman, 6 ys. ; and representative, 17^2. 
He settled, where Jona. Holbrook, one of his descendants, resides, on his 
wife's estate, inherited from her father He had 



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35. 19. i. John, 1 Mar. 22, 1694-5, m. Rath Hill, and d. at Mondon, 1756; 

II. Elizabeth, 1 Jly. 22, 1606, d. 1782, m. Joseph Twitchill, Mar. 27, 1718 ; 

and 2d, Doa. James Whitney, and was the mother of the Hon. Daniel 

Whitney, of S., and the gr. grd. mother of Amos Twitchell, M. 1)., of 

Ivccnc N\ H. * 
39. 20. in. Jona., 4 Dec. 21, 1690, d. 1754, m. Abigail Breck ; iv. Joseph, 4 

May 1, 1702, d. Mar. 13, '25-6, urn. ; 
41. 21. v. Ezra, 4 Ens., May 16, '09, d. Nov. 10, '86, m. Grace Cooledge ; 
22. vi. Joshua, 4 Aug. 22, '14, d. Nov. 1, 1740, urn., and intestate. 

12. 23. Nathaniel,'' 1st Mary Morse, daughter of Jona., by w. Elizabeth Barbour ; 
and 2d, Elizabeth Sheffield ; but by the latter had no issue. He drew land 
in Doug., 1715, and d. intestate, 1716. At his funeral, £6 were expended 
for gloves. Administration was granted, Nov. 20, 1716, to his wid., Eliza- 
beth, who m. 2d, Geo. Blanchard, of Killingly, Ct., from whence she and 
husband, 11 years after, petitioned for allowance, and gave in an account of 
her administration, " so far as she had proceeded." Nathaniel was pr. a 
cordwainer, and settled on the lot bequeathed him, S. W. of the Meeting- 
house common ; 

45. 24, i. Nathaniel, 4 Sep. 13, 1701, d. June 3, 1774, was left to be brought up 
by his grandfather, Jona. Morse, who gave him a deed of his farm, on the N. 
side of the Lake, on which is now kept a house of entertainment. He m. 
Sarah Sanger. 

14. 25. Samuel,' inherited the ancient homestead at Death's Bridge, drew 21 
acres at Doug., 1730. He served as surveyor, 1725 ; assessor, '29; con- 
stable, '30; and selectman, 7 ys. He m. Kezia Morse, Sep. 4, 1718, dau. 
of Cpt. Joseph M., who d. Feb. 18, '54; and 2d, Elizabeth, pr. wid. of 
Joseph Daniels, of Med., and had i. Hannah, 5 Sep. 11, 1720, m. Ephm. 
Perry, 1742, and d. 1744, without issue ; n. Tho., 5 Apl. 21, '23, d. yg. ; 
26. in. Asa, 5 Jan. 17, '25-6, d. Jly. 28, '73, m. Mary Rider, Mar. 30, '56 ; 
iv. Kezia, 5 Aug. 23, '29, m. Aaron Daniels, of Med., had only Kezia, 6 who 

m. Jona. Hill, of Med., and inherited all her grd. father H.'s estate ; 
v. Lydia, 5 Aug. 12, '34 ; and no further reported. 

Samuel 4 seems to have survived all his children ; or the division of his estate 
was postponed until after tho decease of his son, Asa ; for, I find that his 
farm of 195 acres, at Death's Bridge, Dec. 7, 1773, "was ordered and 
assigned to his grd. dau., Kezia, the wife of Jona. Hill; provided, that if 
any other lawful heirs or heir shall appear, then she or her heirs shall refund 
to them their proportional part of the value of the same." Elizabeth, wid. of 
Samuel, at the same time relinquished to Hill, for £40, her right of dower ; and 
Kezia and her husband afterwards sold the place to Henry Death, and thus it 
passed out of the race of the Holbrooks, and is now owned and occupied by 
Mr. Charles A. How. 



16. 27. Daniel, 1 removed to Wrentham ab. 1722; drew 82 acres in Doug., 

1715, and '30, ra. Elizabeth Clark, fr. Medfd., and had 

I. Miriam, 5 Jly. 16, 1723, m. Daniel Kingsbury, Esq., of Walpole ; 
53. 28. ii. David, 5 Dea., June 10, '26, m. Lydia Bragg; 2d, Abigl. Blake ; 
59. 29. in. Daniel, 5 Apl. 5, '29, d. Jan. 17, 1807, " a worthy example and loss 

to the chh. ; " 
61. 30. iv. James, 5 Apl. 11, '31, d. Feb. 1, 1815, m. Hannah Fisher; 2d, 

Mary Morse ; 



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31. v. Amos, 5 Mar. 12, '34-5, m. Lydia Kingsbury, Deo., 17GG, settled at 
Worcester, and was lulled by a fall from a hayloft, leaving two children. 

17. 32. Eleazer, 4 inherited the N. half of the ancient homestead in S., and v., 
where Amsdcn does, was selectman, 171"), m. Deborah Bullard, b. Nov. 9, 
17—, m. Apl. 4, '28, d. Feb. 10, '54, daughter of Cpt. Samuel B., by w. 
Deb. Atherton. 

79. 33. i. Eleazer, 5 Oct. 2, 1729, m. Kezia Leland ; n. Bcnj., 5 Jan. 15, '30-1, 
d. Apl. 2, '31 ; in. Sarah, 5 June 6, '32 ; 

81. 34. iv. Abel, 5 Aug. 12, '34, m. Lydia Leland ; v. Deborah, 5 Jly. 20, '37, d. 
Aug. 15, '44 ; vi. Anne, Nov. 10, '39, d. Aug. 15, '44 ; vn. Samuel, 5 Apl. 
30, '30, d. May 11, '30; to Mary, Apl. 29, '41, d. June 18, '41. 



19. 35. John, 4 is presumed to have settled first on the homestead, by Ilolbrook's 
Mills, and to have sold to his brothers, Jona. and Joshua, who held the place 
in common, until both had deceased, which was the occasion of much trouble 
to heirs, administrators and guardians. Ho m. Ruth Hill, Mar. 13, 1718--19, 
drew 37 acres in Doug., 1730, and about 1733, removed to Mendon. Hehnd 

30. i. Wm., 5 May 24/1719; n. Silence, Mar. 23, '23-4, m. Goodale ; 

in. Ruth, 5 Dec. 28, '20, m. * Eames ; iv. Elizabeth, 5 June 0, '30, urn. 

in '50 ; 

37. v. John, 5 Aug. 28, '33 ; vi. Sarah, 5 b. pr. at Mendon ; 

38. vii. Moses, 5 b. pr. do., had Ephm. Sherman for his guardian. John, 4 
their father, was three times married. His will, proved Apl. 27, 1750, gave 
John 5 half of all his lands in Grafton fvn& Douglas, and Moses the other 
half. To Wra.'s portion he added 3 acres of intervale, near Cpt. Leland's, 
now Leland station, in Grafton. [Worces. Prob.] 



20. 39. Jona., 4 m. Abigail Breck, Nov. 5, 1730, who. d. Mar. 30, '75, a. 70. 

He inherited the homestead, (now occupied by Jona. Holbrook, his gr. grd. 
s.,) in common with his brother Joshua ; was selectman of S., 1749--0G, and 
d. intestate. Administration was granted to his wid., Abigail, and inven- 
tories of his estate (appraised at £3,113 10s.), presented, May 20, 1754, and 
she appointed guardian of the three youngest children, but did not succeed 
in the execution of the trust to the satisfaction of all parties concerned or of 
her neighbors. They had i. Abigail, 5 May 8, 1732, in. Joshua Morse ; 
ii. Mchetabel, 5 Mar. 7, '33-4, d. Jan. 18, '54 ; in. Joseph, 5 Dec. 20, '37, 
d. Dec. 19, '40; iv. Silence, 5 Nov. 7, '41, d. Aug. 15, '75, m. Micah 
Holbrook ; 
50. 40. v. Jona., 5 June 30, '43, cl. Nov. 2, '70, from a wound at the Battle at 
White Plains; vi. Hannah, 5 Dec. 15, '45. 

21. 41. Ezra, 4 settled upon the farm and built the house now owned and occupied 

by Dalton Goulding, Esq., of S., served 4 ys. as selectman, m. Grace 
Cooledge, Nov. 30, 1738, dau. of Isaac C, Esq., who d. Apl. 5, 178D. lie 
d. Nov. 10, '86 ; and his homestead was settled upon his s., Joshua, 
i. Elizabeth, 5 Sep. 8, 1739 ; n. Mary, Jan. 19, '41-2, d. Dec. 3, '42 ; 

100. 42. in. Joshua, 5 Oct. 31, '43, m. Experience Dana, Jan. 4, '87 ; 
52. 43. iv. Joseph, 5 Nov. 3, '45, m. Mary Parker; 

140. 44. v. Tho., 5 Feb. 1, '47-8, a gunsmith, m. Sally Dana, Jan. 18, '81; 
vi. Mary, 5 Jly. 5, '50, d. Mar. 2, '54. 

24. 45. Nathaniel*, 4 settled N. E. of tho Lake ; the W. part of whoso farm has 
become an attractive watering place. He was a very shrewd man ; served 



1 44 II O L 13 R O O K . 

S. 4 ys., as selectman, m. Aug. 20,1728, Sarah Sanger, dau. of Richd. S., 
by w. Elizabeth Morse, and aunt to Rev. Dr. Sanger, formerly of Bridge- 
water. His will, dated Jan. 18, 1773, and probated, June 14, '74, gave 
his homestead to his son, Moses, requiring him to keep 2 cows and a horse 
for his wid. Sarah, and pay her one-fourth of the produce of the land ; and 
to take care of a helpless dau., Azuha. To s., Micba, he gave £23, and half 
his lands in Doug., and to s. James, the other half. To dau., Mary Babcock, 
Hannah Whitney and Mercy Twitchell, he gave 50s. each. To his s., 
Nathaniel, whom he had already settled on the W. half of his farm, he gave 
5s., charging him to sec to the execution of his will. His wid. is said to have 
attained almost to her 100th year, and to have d. at Templeton. Nathaniel, 4 had 
/ 66. 46. i. James,"' Aug. 3, '29, d. Sep. 2, '74, m. Sibilla Clark, r. S. ; 
69. 47. ii. Mieab, 5 Feb. 14, '31-2 ; in. Mary, 5 Oct, 31, '33, m. Mai. Babcock, 
r.S.; 

76. 48. iv. Nathaniel, 5 Dec. 9,'36, d. June 3, '74; v. Azubah, May 31, '39 ; 
vi. Hannah, 5 June 3, '41, m. John Whitney; vn. Mercy, 5 Oct. 4, '43, m. 
Jos. Twitchell, of Dub. ; 

77. 49. viii. Moses, 5 Nov. 21, '45, m. Rachel Death, r. S. and Templeton. 



40. 50. Jona., 5 w. Mary Ware, m. Dec. 6, 1770, d. Apl. 7, '74 • 2d, Sarah 
Bedlow, m. May 9, '76, r. Sh., had i. Mehetable, Oct. 6, '71, d. Dec. 26, 
'80 ; ii. Mary, G Feb. 6, '74, d. Mar. 1, '74. 

82. 51. in. Jona.,* 5 Jly. 19, '76, d. Sep. 10, 1848. 



43. 52. Joseph, 5 w., Mary Parker, m. Jly. 1, 1779, d. Mar. 17, '97. He was a 
blacksmith; sold, in 1802, the farm on which Capt. Jacob Pratt, rs., and 
was then of Weston ; had i. Polly, Oct. 3, '81 ; n. Nancy , G Jan. 15, '93, 
at S., Joseph, '80, Ezra, '83, John, '90. 

28. 53. David, 5 weaver, w., Lydia Bragg, m. Jan. 22, 1746-7, d. Sep. 8, '67 ; 

2d w., Abigail Blake, m. Jan. 8, 1770. His will, probated June 4, 1793, 

settled the homestead upon his s., David, and divided a library to 10 chil- 
dren ; r. Wrentbam, had 
89. 54. i. David, 6 Feb. 10, 1747-8 ; 

ii. Chloe, Nov. 8, '49, m. Farrington ; 

55. in. Adan, c Apl. 22, '52 ; iv. Lydia, Jan. 10, '54, m. Crooks ; 

v. Olive, May 25, '56 ; vi. Lois, June 10, '58 ; vn. Luther, Mar. 22, '61, 

d. Sep. 20, '72 ; 
86. 56. viii. Darius, Dec. 6, '70, r. Bos. and Dor., and had Darius B., of New 

York ; ix. Susanna, Nov. 11, '72, d. yg. ; 

57. x. Amos, Apl. 20, '77, d. in N. J. ; 

58. xi. Luther, Mar. 16, '80, rs. Chicago ; xn. Calvin, named 2d in his 

father's will, with 9 other children. 



29. 59. Daniel, 5 w. Esther Hall, m. May 29, 1751, d. Dec. 22, 1806, had at 
Wrentham, i Jacob, Jan. 21, 1752, d. Apl. 24, '81, without issue; 
n. Molly, Apl. 11, '53, m. Isaac Newton, r. Wore, had 11 children; 
in. Abigail, Oct. 23, '55, d. of consumption, '77, um. ; 

92. 60. iv. Daniel, Feb. 14, '57, d. Apl. 17, 1839. He was a soldier of the 
Revolution; m. Mary (Edwards) Holbrook, Oct. 9, 1800. i. Eliza E., 7 
Nov. 11, 1802, at W. ; n. Mary B., 7 Jan. 13, 1804, m. Silas J. Hol- 
brook; in. Geo. E., 7 Cpt., Sep. 13, 1806, m. Clarissa Turner, r. 
N. Wrenth., had t. Silas P." '37 ; ir. Geo. E., B '39 ; in. Mary E.,* '44 ; 



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v. Esther, 6 Feb. 4, 1761, A. Nov. 10, 1808, m. Dea. Joseph Ware, of W. ; 
vi. Josiab, 6 Rev., A. M., Jan. 19, '65, grad. at B. U., '88, s. as a clergy- 
man at Beaufort, S. C, d. 1708, with the stranger's fever ; vu. George, 6 b. 
1763, d. 1846, was a distinguished musician, and extensively known as a 
bell founder, r. Brookfield and Medway, m., had i. George/ Col., m. Louisa 
Harding, rs. E. Medway, and carries on the Bell Foundry, and the 
manufactory of organs, has i. Edwin X., 8 m. Abby D. Hills ; 

ii. H. jEvalina, 8 m. John Baker, of Ded. ; 
vin. Paul, 6 Rev., Nov. 9, 1768, d. Oct. 3, 1824, m. Lucy Snow, b. 1778, 
d. Sep. 15, 1803. Rev. Paul m. 2d, Nancy Hamet, b. Mar. 11, 1786 ; s. 
at Montpelier, A r t., and about 1800, was ordained among the Freewill Bap- 
tists, and much beloved and respected for his active benevolence and purity 
of life. He had i. Sarali S./ 1798 ; m. Junius B. Davis, r. Plainfield, 
Vt. ; ii. Silas J., 7 June 7, 1802, m. Oct. 29, 1835, Mary B. Hol- 
brook, and had Daniel J., 8 June 30, '39. He rs. at N. Wrenth, and is 
the author of a little vol. of useful Hymns. 

in. Mary E., 7 Oct. 1, 1808, m. Hiram H. Hart, rs. Montpelier ; 

iv. Lucy E., 7 Dec. 3, 1811, m. Amasa Cummings, rs. M. ; 

ix. Silas, 6 b. 1768, d. at W., Mar. 3, 1800, was prepared to enter the 

senior class at B. U., and became a teacher at Beaufort, S. C, m. Mary 

Edwards, and had i. John E., 7 Dec. 30, 1794, grad. B. U., 1815 j studied 

medicine with Dr. Ingalls, of Bos. ; m. Harriet P. Rutledge, and rs. at 

at Charleston, S. C. ; II. Silas P., 7 b. June 1, 1796, grad. at B. U., 

1815 : studied law with Wm. Sullivan, of Boston ; m. Esther Gourdin, 

r. Bos. and Medfield, wrote much for the Boston Courier and other 

papers, and was the author of a popular journal, entitled, Spectacles. 

He was naturally of an amiable disposition, led an irreproachable life, 

and showed the highest regard for religion. He d. atPineville, S. C, 

May 26, 1835. 



30. 61. James, 5 w., Hanh. Fisher, m. Nov. 26, 1753, d. Aug. 21, '55, a. 22 ; 
2d w., Mary Morse, dg. of Henry M., of Attleboro', [see p. 78, of my 
memorial of the Morses], b. May 4, 1732, m. May 13, '56, r. W., had 
95. 62. i. James, 6 Jly. 24, '54, d. Nov. 30, 1843, m. Olive Smith, fr. Medfd, 

and had Olive, 7 May 4, 1789 ; 
98. 63. ii. Henry, 6 May 2, '57, d. a. 66, m. Martha Perry, fr. Medfd., r. Medfd. ; 
64. in. Elihu, 6 Jly. 3, '60, m. Polly Bugbee, s. in Keen, had i. Henry, 7 
who rs. in Bos.; n. John F. ; in. Fanny; iv. Mary; 
iv. Hannah, Oct. 8, '63, m. Jesse Daniels, r. Medfd. ; 
93. 65. v. Samuel, 6 Sep. 27, '68, m. Lois Fisher ; 2d, Mary Fisher, Jly. 3, 1798. 



46. 66. James. 5 w., Sibilla Clark, m. Feb. 11, 1756, m. 2d, Jas. Marshall, '86, 
r. S. i. Sarah, 6 Jly. 16, '56 ; n. Mary, 6 May 2, '58, m. Doct. Jona. Tay, 
of S., Jan. 5, '75 ; in. Sybil, 6 May 21, '60, m. Jona. Greenwood, May 4, '80. 
67. iv. James, 6 Dec. 16,' '62, d. Apl. 4, 1829; v. Marcy, 6 Nov. 5, '67; 
vi. Elizabeth, Oct. 13, '72 ; vu. ? Moses, 6 pr. 



47, 69. Micah, 5 s. 1 m. W. of the Common in S., m. Silence Holbrook, who 
was b. in S. [not " in Weymouth," see No. 39 back], and d. Aug. 15, '75; 
2d w., Lydia Kendall, m. Mar. 28, '76. 

109. 70. i. David, 6 May 17, '58, d. Jly 21, 1828; n. Daniel, Apl. 26, '61, d. 
May 5, '63 ; 

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118. 71. in. Amos, 6 Gen. and Hn., Mar. 4, '64, served, a soldier in Cpt. Josh. 

Leland's Co., Col. Abner Perry's Regt., 1780, at R. I. j 
121. 72. iv. Daniel, 6 Apl. 14, '67, d. Jan. 18, 1841 ; 
126. 72^ v. Asa, 6 Apl. 29, '70, d. Jan. 30, 1818; 
129. 73. vi. Cyrus, 6 Mar. 29, '75, d. Oct. 6, 1819 ; 
131. 74. vn. Elliot, 6 Jan. 3, '73, d. Nov. 19, 1829, m. Sally Broad, of Natick, 

Apl. 11, 1799; 

75. via. Royal, 6 Aug. 2, '77, lived to manhood ; ix. Eunice, 6 bap. May 6, 

'81, m. John Whipple, 1805; x. Silence, 6 bap., May 18, '83, m. John 

Whitney, of Boston, 1811. 

48. 76. Nathaniel, 5 w., Asenath Kendall, d. Oct. 5, '73, a. 33 ys., r. S., where 
Cpt. Mears lives, had i. Rebecca, 6 May 4, '64, d. Aug. 28, '74 ; n. Anna, 6 
Jly. 15, '66, d. Sep. 8, '74 ; in. Asenath, 6 Sep. 11, '68, m. Henry Pratt, 
June 1, '86 ; iv. Eunice, 5 Aug. 6, '70, d. Aug. 25, '74 ; v. Olive, 6 bap., 
May 7, '80 ; vi. Rebecca, 5 Jan. 15, '82. 

49 77. Moses, 5 w., Rachel Death, r. S., was selectman, 1780-81, had i. Levi, 5 
June 27, 1768, d. Aug. 26, '74 ; n. Patty, 6 d. Aug. 19, '74, a. 4 y. 8d. ; 
in. Hanh., d..Aug. 17, '74, a. 1 y. 10 mo. ; iv. Rachel, May 25, '75, bap. 
May 28, '75 ; 
78. v. Moses, 6 May 23, '77, bap. May 25, '77, d. June 10, '77 ; vi. Cynthia, 6 
Jly. 22, '81, m. Daniel Brown, of Ring. ; 
115. 78^. vn. Aaron, 6 a twin, d. at sea, Jly. 6, 1840, m. Susan Miles ; vm. Moses, 6 
lived to manhood ; ix. Rufus, 6 lived to manhood. 



33. 79. Eleazer, 4 w., Keziah Leland, m. Oct. 28, '55, r. S., had 
80. i. Benj., 6 June 14, 1757 ; n. Deborah, 5 Mar. 28, '59. 



34. 81. Abel, 5 served as a teamster in the Revolution, lost his oxen by famine, and 
was discharged at Peekskill, Nov. 24, '81, w., Lydia Leland, r. S., had 
i. Saml., 6 b. Jly. 8, d. Dec. 10, '63 ; n. Anne, 6 Feb. 7, '65. 

51 82. Jona., 6 w., Betsey Leland, b. Jan. 22, 1780, d. Jly. 25, 1820 ; 2d w., 
Sally (Sawin) Morse, d. Oct. 19, 1826, a. 37 ; 3d w., Lavina Eames, r. S. 
i. Avery, 7 Dec. 22, 1802, bap., May 22, '03, d. Nov. 24, '37; 
83. ii. Wm. 7 Aug. 20, '04 ; in. Leland, Aug. 17, '00, d. Jan. 8, '08 ; 
108. 84. iv. Jona., 7 Feb. 16, '09, bap., May 21, '09, r. S. ; v. Mary L., Oct. 
31, '11 ; vi. Sarah B., 7 Nov. 2, '13; vn. Betsey Harding, Jly. 16, '16, 
d. Jan. 17, '18 ; 
85. vm. Henry, 7 Sep. 2d, '22, by w. Sally. 

56. 86. Darius, 6 m. Elizabeth Miller, and settled in Bos. I. John Miller, 7 who 
d. um. ; ii. Darius Blake, 7 m. Elizabeth Ingraham, fr. Portland, Me., rs. 

New York ; in. Charles Augustus, 7 m , r. Dorchester ; iv. Samuel 

Ridgeway M., 7 m. Frances Lodge, r. D. ; v. Wm. Read, 7 who rs. at Cincin- 
nati, Ohio ; vi. Elizabeth, 7 who rs. Dor. ; vn. Edward, 7 who m. Frances 
Doane, rs. Bos. 



54. 89. David, 6 Esq., was Lt. in the army of the Revolution, and drew pay, 1780, 

(a pension amounting to a fortune is due to his heirs,) w., Margaret , 

had at Wrentham, i. "I John, 7 pr. was a teacher in New York, where he d. um. ; 

90. ii. Chandler, 7 Jan. 2, 1787, r. in Newark, N. J., 1826, had a dg.; 

91. in. David Lyman, 7 Jan. 2, '95, rm. S. 



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60. 92. Daniel, 6 w., Mrs. Mary (Edwards) Holbrook, wid. of Silas, his br., m. 
Oct. 9, 1800, r. W., where he was D. jun., and witnessed a deed to Silas 
Holbrook, 1799. i. Eliza Edwards/ Nov. 7, 1801 ; n. Mary. 7 

65. 93. Samuel, 6 w. Lois Fisher, d. Dec. 18, '96; 2d w., Mary Fisher, m. Jly. 3, 
'98, b. Jan. 6, '69, d. Feb. 1, 1804 ; 3d w., Hannah Ware, r. W., and had 
94. i. Nathan Fisher, 7 Dec. 12, '9G, at Wrentham ; n. Lois Fisher, 7 Aug. 
7, '99 ; in. Nabby, 7 m. Doct. Metcalf, of Mend. ; iv. Samuel E., 7 by 3d w., 
andd. Jly. 30, 1850; v. Hannah W., 7 d. Feb. 8, '46; vi. Caleb W. 7 ; 
vn. Mary A. 7 

62. 95. James, 6 w., Olive Smith, r. W., and Sturb. and W., had i. Elisha Smith, 7 
Sep. 7, 1780, d., urn., Jly. 27, 1807; 

96. ii. James, 7 Nov. 29, 1782, d., um, Sep. 7, 1809 ; 

97. in. Pliny, 7 Mar. 30, '85, rs. um. in W. ; iv. Olive, 7 May 4, 1789, m. Ezra 
Shaw, fr. Sturb., rs. on the ancient H. homestead in W., has Olivia* James H? 



63. 98. Henry, 6 w., Martha Perry, d. at Wrenth., a. ab. 90, r. Medfd. and W. 
99. i. Henry, 7 d. yg. ; n. Wm., 7 d. yg., unmarried ; 

100. in. Henry, 7 m. Priscilla Sumner ; 2d, wid. Sally (Farrington) Walcot, 
r. Bos., and Cleveland, O., had i. Henry S., s Aug. 8, 1818, and Joseph P., 8 

Nov. 1822, both r. Cleveland ; 

101. iv. Joseph Perry, 7 m. Asenath Williams, r. N. Wrenth., had Susan, 8 d. 

um. ; Louisa, 8 m. Geo. Ide, r. Ohio; 
104. 102. v. Horatio, 7 Feb. 10, 1790, read med. with Doct. Danl. Fisk, of Oxford, 
m. Arcena Richardson ; 2d, Almira Drake, fr. Wrenth., and s. in Thompson, 
Connecticut ; 
103. vi. Lowell, 7 m. Angeline Nelson, dg. of Dr. Tho. N., of Bristol, R. I., 
r. Brookline, N. Y. ; vn. Jesse Daniels, 7 d. agd. 8 ys. 

102. 104. Horatio, 7 M. D., w., Asenath Richardson, d., 1846, had i. Laura Fisk, 8 
Sep. 5, 1816, m. Benj. F. Hutchins, r. Thomp. ; 
105. ii. Lowell, 8 M. D., Oct. 6, '18, m. Mary E. Fisher, r. T. ; 
in. Martha Perry, 8 Jly. 28, '21, m. Wm. H. Jacobs, r. Worcester; 
iv. Mary, 8 r. um., at T. ; v. Elvira A., 8 r. T. 

42. 106. Joshua, 5 s. in Sherborn, where Dalton Golden, Esq., resides, served as a 
soldier in Cpt. Josh. Leland's Co., 1780, at R. I., and d. aged 75, leaving only 
107. Lewis, 6 Mar. 7, '96, who m. Hannah Phips, and r. in S., W. of Little 
Pond. i. Chs., 7 r. Milford ; n. Joshua, 7 Sep. 20, 1819, m. Julia S. War- 
ner, r. S., had Rufus P., 8 Nov. 25, 1849, Joshua E., 8 Aug. 5, '52; 
in. Rufus, 7 Oct. 9, '22, m. Mary Bond, r, S. ; iv. Ellen, 7 Dec. 19, '24, (d.) 
m. Orin Golden ; v. Geo. Lewis, 7 Apl. 20, '27. 

84. 108. Jona., 7 w., Catherine B. Mann, b. Aug. 16, 1810, m. May 10, '33, r. 
Sherborn, had i. Mary E., 8 May 12, '35, d. Oct. 14, '36; n. Wm. H., s 
Jly. 4, '38 ; in. Georgianna E., 8 Feb. 7, '41 ; iv. Ebenr. Mann, 8 Apl. 29, 
'46; v. Jona. P., 8 Nov. 17, '48 ; vi. Mary Agnes, 8 Nov. 8, '54. 

70. 109. David, 6 m. Judith Bullard, dg. of AsaB., of Hoi., r. Princeton, 1788-95, 
and Holden, 1795, until his death. He had 
133. 110. i. James, 7 Mar. 29, 1780, d. May 31, 1829, m. Sarah Wheeler; and 
a 2d wf. ; 
111. ii. Aaron, 7 Doct., Dec. 23, '82, d. Dec. 18, 1825, m. Margaret Jones ; 



148 IIOLBROOK. 

112. in. Levi, 7 June 9, '85, m. Eliza Grout, rs. Danville, Va., as a physician, 
and has Levi, 8 jun. ; iv. Hannah/ Dec. 20, '87, d. Dec. 31, 1836 ; 
v. Betsey, 7 Sep. 2, '91, m. Theodore Winn, r. Winchendon ; 
137. 113. vi. Micah, Aug. 15, '94, m. Roxanna Richardson, r. II olden ; 

vii. Amos, 7 Mar. 24, '97, d. Aug. 26, '98 ; vm. Mary, 7 Sep. 15, 1800, m. 
John Briggs, r. S. Orange ; ix. Asa, 7 Jan. 15, 1805, in. Sarah Nye, r. Hol- 
den, had i. Daniel G. ; n. Marion E., and Mary E. • 
x. David, 7 Aug. 8, 1807, d. um, June 8, '38. 

78^. 115. Aaron, 6 followed the seas, d. fr. home, and was interred at Key West, 
had, by w., Susan Miles, fr. New Salem, and 2d, Mary Wellington, fr. 
Waltham, i. Aaron, 7 master of a vessel, m. Ann Finch, fr. Bos. 
ii. Susan, 7 m. Wm. H. Smith, of E. Lexington, and rs. there, has Geo. E. 8 
iii. Henry C., 7 r. Georgia ; iv. Rufus W., 7 r. Bos. ; v. Edwin W., 7 r. Bos. 
vi. Mary A., 7 r. with her mother, at E. Lexington. 

71. 118. Amos, c Gen., 1st, Mary ? Badger ; 2d, Lydia Owen, dg. of Gov. Owen, of 

Gloucester, R. I., b. May 27, 1764, d. Dec. 15, 1820, r. Cummington, had 

148. 119. i. Amos, 7 May 22, 1782, m. Betsey Craft, fr.Watertown, rs. W. Roxb. ; 

ii. Mercy, 7 Feb. 27, 1784, by 2d lady, d. Jly. 24, 1815, m. Wm. Hubbard, 

of Cummington, and had Laura O. 8 Wm. 0.,x. Oswego, N.Y., Samuel P., 

Francis E. ; 
in. Owen, 7 Apl. 22, '86, d. Oct. 4, '90 ; 

iv. Hannah, 7 Apl. 19, '88, d. Aug. 16, 1826, m. Daniel Coman, of 

Cheshire; v. Olive, 7 Aug. 18, '90, m. Capt. Joseph Warner, of Cumming. ; 

120. vi. Daniel, 7 Aug. 19, '92, m. Mary Ann Dutton, rs. Attica, N. Y., had 

i. Edwin A. 8 rs. Buffalo, N. Y. ; n. Lydia S. 8 m. Leonidas Doty, 

rs. Attica, N. Y. ; in. Wm. O. 8 rs. B. ; iv. ILenry J. 8 rs. B. ; 
vn. Lydia, 7 Aug. 21, '94, m. Alexander Dorn ; 2d, R. Weller ; 3d, Ezra 
Whitman, rs. Windsor ; 

vm. Sarah, 7 June 19, '96, m. Wm. Hubbard; ix. Czarina, 7 Nov. 22, '98, 
m. Dea. Alpbeus Brown, of Dalton; x. Sumner, 7 Feb. 5, 1801, m. Olivia 
Davis ; 2d, Laurina Parks, rs. Chester Mills, had i. Harriet 8 m. Billings 

Palmer, Esq., of Sheffield ; n. Laura 8 m. Newell Bliss, rs. N. York ; 

in. Owen 8 ; iv. David S. 8 ; 
xi. Fidelia, 7 Dec. 4, 1803, m. Chs. O. Fanning, r. Amherst, Me. ; 
xii. Laura, 7 Aug. 15, 1807, d. Jly. 23, 1808. 



72. 121. Daniel, w., Molly Bowman, b. Sep. 20, 1765, r. , had 

i. Polly, 7 Feb. 14, 1791, d. Nov. 16, 1826; 
122. ii. Daniel, 7 Sep. 28, '92, d. Oct. 17. 1835, m. Susan Grout, and had 

Chs. B. 8 Sep. 8, 1821, d. June 35, 1850; 
in. Lowell, 7 Oct. 14, '94, rs. N.boro', m. Sarah Hastings, d. Apl. 29, 
1837 ; and 2d, Lucy Barns, had i. Sophia 8 m. Francis L. Gould, rs. Bos. ; 

n. Benj. 8 (d.) ; in. Dexter 8 ; iv. Cyrus 8 ; v. Sarah 8 ; vi. Benj. 

L. 8 (d.) ; vm. Lucy 8 ; vm. Lucy 8 '42 ; 
iv. Cyrus, 7 Feb. 28, '97, m. Ann B. Davis, fr. N.boro', r. Sterling ; 
v. Dexter, 7 Mar. 24, '99, d. Aug. 6, 1826; vi. Silence, 7 Jan. 1, 1801, m. 
Israel P. Sibley, rs. Templeton, had Sophia S. 8 and Israel Dexter 8 of T. ; 
vn. Sophia, 7 Sep. 1, 1802, d. Sep. 7, 1821. 



72£ 126. Asa, m. Sarah Winship, who d. Oct. 1, 1842, r. Boston, had 

i. Charles, 7 Oct. 10, 1794, d. 1836 ; n. Edward, 7 Feb. 24, '98, d. Oct. 5, 



HOLBROOK. 149 

1800 ; in. Charlotte, 7 Feb. 24, 1800, m. T. V. Wiesenthal, M. D., r. Bos., had 

Sarah E., 8 Charlotte M. 8 Clark* Elizabeth, 8 Charlotte 8 Andrew 8 

Tho. W. 8 Theodore V 8 ; 
iv. Lucy W./Mar. 11, 1802, d. Aug. 2, 1814 ; v. Mary A., 7 Feb. 10, '04, 
d. Feb. 28, '18; vi. Edward H., 7 Apl. 26, '07, in. Dorothea W. Smith, fr. 
Hadley : and 2d, Adaline Johnson, fr. Brooklyn, N. Y., rs. Boston, had 

Edwd. H 8 Jan. 12, '35 ; Sarah M. 8 Mar. 12, '37 ; Wm. A. 8 Oct. 

31, '39; 
vii. Wm. A., 7 June 6, '10, d. 1839; vm. Theodore, 7 Nov. 29, '11, m. 
Kachel B. Smith (d.), rs. Chicago, 111., has Julia T. 8 T. Lewis 8 Henry E. 8 

(d.), Maria L. 8 Dora 8 Emily 8 ; 
ix. Lucy M., 7 Apl. 10, '15, m. Rev. D. C. Millet, r. Portsmouth, R. I. 

73. 129. Cyrus, m. Mary Winship, of Brighton, rs., a druggist, in Boston, had 

I. Mary B., 7 June 17, 1802, d. May 3, 1841, m. Francis J. Williams, of 
Bos., had Chs. E., s Rev., A. M., Nov. 2, 1824, rs. as Pastor of 1st. chh., 

Andover ; 
ii. Charles W., 7 Aug. 4, 1804, m. Delia A. Gardner. 

74. 131. Elliot, 6 w., Sally Broad, inherited the homstead 1 m. W. of S. Common, 

and had i. Eliza, 7 Feb. 3, 1800, m. John Bacon, r. New York, had 

John E. 8 who m. Charlotte A. Reynolds, r. N. York, has Alphonso 

E./» John W., n Eliza A. 9 ; 
ii. Edward, 7 Mar. 14, 1803, m. Lois B. Combs, inherits the homestead, has 

Fred. T. 8 Sarah E. 8 Charlotte M., 8 Ellen S. 8 Micah Edward 8 

LydiaB. 8 Mary E. 8 ; 
in. Tho. B., 7 Dec. 30, 1807, d. Jly. 5, 1808 ; iv. Tho. B., 7 Apl. 18, 1811, 
d. May 14, 1827 ; v. Mary F., 7 Dec. 7, 1816, rs. New York, urn. 

110. 133. James, 7 r. W. Boylston, had, by w. Sarah Wheeler, i. Clarissa, 8 Sep. 
25, 1805, m. Tho. Sargent, r. W. Boylst. ; n. Hannah, 8 May 25, 1807, m. 
Percival Taylor, rs. Sutton; in. Eli W., 8 Dec. 22, 1809, m. Adaline Wor- 
cester, rs. W. Boyl., has Susan (7.,° Emeline M. 9 ; 
iv. Levi, 8 Apl. 16, 1815, m. Rebecca Emerson, r. E. Boyl. ; 
v. Reuben W., s May 10, 1818, m. Clarissa A. Fairbanks, r. Clinton, has 

Chs.E. 9 Harriet L?; 
vi. Clara. 8 Aug. 4, 1829, by 2d w. ; 
vn. Eliza, 8 Dec. 4, '31 ; vm. Sarah, 8 Nov. 4, '33. 

113. 137. Micah, 7 r. Holden, and by w., Roxanna Richardson, had i. Caroline, 8 
May 1G, 1824, m. Rev. A. P. Marvin, rs. Wincheudon, had Caroline, 9 

Apl. 20, '46 ; Mary A., 9 Jly. 17, '49 ; 
n. Charles W., 8 May 10, 1828, late a memb. of Wms. Col., where he col- 
lected and published a catalogue of most of his gr. grd. father's descendants ; 
in. Wm. D., 8 Nov-1, '30, rs. Worcester. 

44. 140. Tho., ' a gunsmith, r. where Curtis Cooledge rs., served S. as selectman, 
and rm. to S. Natick. He had at S., by w. Sally Dana, i. Grace, Nov. 

II, 1781, m. John W. Adams, of Medfd. ; n. Sally, 6 Oct. 11, '85, m. 

Morrill, rs. Lexington ; in. Betsey, Sep. 14, '87, r. N., um. ; 

iv. Tho.,° b. pr. at N. ; v. Sylvia, r. um. Nat. 

67. 142. James, 6 r. ab. 40 rods S. W. of the new S. Burying ground in S., was a 
blacksmith ; and by w., Mille Bridges, had i. Moses, 7 A. M., M. D., who 



150 HOLBROOK. 

s. at the S. ; n. Sybil 7 ; in. James, 7 d. at Batavia, N. Y. ; iv. Sylvius, 7 
Jly. 12, 1791, cl. at Natick; v. Clark, 7 June 4, '93, d. at Lowell; 
vi. Walter, 7 Aug. 12, '96, rs. Pelham ; vn. Mille, 7 Sep. 3, 1801 ; 
viii. Elizabeth, 7 Sep. 27, '03; ix. Benj., 7 m. Louisa Phipps ; x. Sarah 
Ann, 7 Feb. 3, '07 ; xi. Maria, 7 Dec. 5, '08. 

119. 148. Amos, 7 m. Betsey Crafts, dg. of Cpt. Abner C, of Watertown, by w. Han- 
nah Child, rs.W. Roxb., had i. Hephzibah, 8 Nov. 6, 1807, d. Sep. 22, '52, m. 
Ebenr. Rhodes, r. Roxb., had Ebenr.? John S., Henry, Frank, and Sarah. 
n. Amos, 8 June 30, 1809, rs. a manuf'r at Watertown, m. Sophia Waite, b. 
Aug. 16, 1806, dg. of John W., of Brookfield, and had Amos, 5 June 20, '35 ; 
John G., Feb. 9, '38; Wm. K, Nov. 11, '40, d. Dec. 26, '44; 
Frank, Aug. 21, '43, d. Jan. 9, '45 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 1, '45 ; Frank, 
Oct. 9, '48 ; 
in. Elizabeth, 8 Oct. 30, '11, d. Julv 13, '27 ; iv. Parker Craft, Sep. 7, '12, 
d. Sep. 25, '14 ; v. John George Holbrooke, 8 * Feb. 14, '14, rs. New York, 
m. Jly. 2, 1844, Marian Marshall, dg. of Josiah M., of Bos., and had i. Char- 
lotte Marshall 5 Apl. 11, '45 ; n. Stephen, Aug. 7, '46 ; in. Margaret 
Meredith Read, June 19, '49 ; d. Sep. 17, '52 ; iv. George Otis, 
Aug. 20, '50. 
vi. Harriet, 8 Dec. 15, '15, d. Jan. 21, '16; vn. Charles Crafts, 8 Oct. 17, 
'17, m. Zebiah Smith, dg. of John S., of Bos., and has Charles, Fanny C, 

Ella, Margaret, and infant. 
viii. Stephen Child, 8 June 14, '19, drowned in Boston harbor, urn., Dec. 
12, '44, on a return voyage fr. Calcutta ; ix. Wm. Henry., 8 July 17, '21, rs. 
Calif, um.; x. Daniel P., 8 May 11, '23, rs.W. Roxb.; xi. Ellen Mary, 8 
June 23, '26, um., rs. R. 



CHAPTER II. 



5. John, 2 a tanner, settled at Roxbury, and d. there, Dec. 25, 1678, leaving 
an estate appraised at £474. His will, dated Dec. 16, 1678, gave half his 
estate to his son John, when of age, he to pay £40 to each of his two sisters, 
when of age or married, and £10 apiece for money bequeathed to them by 
Jane Burge, of Dorch., then in the testator's hands ; and his son Daniel to 
have one-third of his lands and to pay one-third of the legacies. Elizabeth, his 
wife, to be sole executor and to have the entire income of his estate in case 
John was not kind and helpful to her in bringing up the younger children. 
Ralph Bradhurst and Samuel Williams, senr., appointed overseers in trust 
for the performance of his will. His wid., Elizabeth, m. 2d, Richard Hall, 
of Roxb., May 22, 1679, and had, Martha, Sep. 6, '80, and Richard, Jan. 
1, '82-3, both d. yg. 
8. 6. i. John, 3 Mr., bap. 30, (2), 1071, d. Sep. 26, 1735, m. Mary Cheiny, 
Sep. 24, 1684; n. Elizabeth, 3 b. Apl. 6, 1670, m. Joseph Mayo, Mar. 10, 
1691-2 ; in. Abigail, 3 b. Aug. 27, 1674, and no further reported. 
32. 7. iv. Daniel, 3 b. Mar. 15, 1676, m. Elizabeth Seaver, May 29, '96. 

6. 8. John, 3 " Mr.," settled at Roxbury, took the freeman's oath, Apl. 16, 1690. 
He m. Mary Cheiny, of Roxbury, presumed to have been of the same family as 

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Doct. C. of that place, who was cousin to an Irish lord of the same family 
name. He m. 2d, " Mrs." Sarah Ruggles, Aug. 19, 1714, and covenanted, 
Oct. 23, 1738. He had, 

12. 9. i. John, 4 Cpt, 20, (6), 1092, d. at Woodstock, Ct., Nov. 22, 1774, " in 

his 83d year," [G. S.], m. Mary Palmer ; n. Elizabeth, 4 d. Feb. 5, 1715-16 ; 
in. Mary, 4 d. Sep. 7, 1712 ; iv. Hannah, 4 m. June 25, 1724, m. Daniel 
Williams, of Eox., who was b. 1695; v. Ebenezer, 4 Dea., who settled at 
Pomfret, Ct., and had one son and 8 daus. ; vi. Mehetabel, 4 b. 1701, m. 
Nehemiah May, of Woodstock, Nov. 30, 1726 ; vn. Martha, 4 b. 1703, d. 
unm. at Woodstock ; vm. Sarah, 4 Sep. 17, 1704; ix. Margaret, 4 Apl. 9, 
1706, d. unm., at Roxb. 
18. 11. x. Ralph, 4 Capt., Oct. 1, 1708, m. Dorothy Williams, Jan. 9, '39-40. 

9. 12. John, 4 Capt., executed a deed, June 21, 1747., for 76 acres, in Stoughton, 
he being then of Roxb., his wife Mary, and sister Margaret witnessing the 
deed. Apl. 17, 1747, he for £700 sold his Br. Ralph 7 acres in Roxb., 
bounded S. and E. by Gov. Shirley ; John Williams and Elizabeth Cheney 
witnessed the deed, but he did not acknowledge it until Jan. 28, 1764. He 
m. Mary Palmer, dau. of Rev. P., of Middleboro', who d. Sep. 9, 1768, in her 
55th year [G. S.] He s. at Woodstock, pr. ab. 1747. He had, i. Abigail. 5 
22. 13. n. John, 5 Capt., b. 1738, m. Susan Cabot. 

24. 14. in. Tho., 5 b. May 4, 1740, d. at Thompson, Ct., June 2, '9G.? 

15. iv. Ralph, 5 July 19, 1741, and also, v. Dorothy, July 19, 1741 ; 

16. vi. Daniel, 5 Feb. 6, 1743-4, m. Polly Perrin, and d. without issue, at 
Roxb., Oct. 7, 1827, aged 83. 

25. 17. vii. Job., 5 b. pr. at Woodstock, m. Irene Morse, and d. at Fairlee, Vt. ; 

vni. Sarah, 5 who m. Abel Morse, of Woodstock, 1770. (See Memo, of 
Morses, p. 113.) 

11. 18. Ralph, 4 Capt., covenanted with his wife, July 19, 1741, at Roxb., sold to 
Moses White, May 15, 1767, all his lands at Roxb., for £1333, 6s., he being 
then of Andover. His wife was reed, to full communion in the Chh. in R., 
Aug. 11, 1751, and dismissed to the Chh. in Andover, July 24, '68. He 
had by wife Dorothy Williams, I. Mary, 5 July 31, 1741, at Roxb. ; 
ii. Ralph, 5 Feb. 14, 1743-4 ; in. Ralph, 5 Aug. 20, 1748 ; 
iv. Elizabeth, 5 May 1, 1751 ; v. Ebenezer, 5 Aug. 28, 1754. 
21. vi. John, 5 b. Mar. 20, and bap. 26, 1758 ; vn. Dorothy, b. Jly. 24, and 
bap. 27, 1760. 

13. 22. John, 5 Capt., m. Susan Cabot, dau. of Rev. Cabot, of Thompson, 

Ct., settled in T. or vicinity, and had i. John, G who rm. from Ct. to N. Y., 

and had sons, Cabot 1 and Marston 7 ; n. Susan, 6 who m. Mr. Goodell, of 

Thompson. 

14. 24. Tho., 5 m. Abigail Adams, had Abigail, m. Houghton. 

17. 25. Job, 5 m. Irene Morse, 1768, dau. of Parker Morse, A. M., M. D., of 
W., who d. 1831, s. in Killingly, and rm. to Fairlee, Vt, had, 
i. Sarah, 6 Feb. 11, 1769, at Killingly; n. Mary,' 5 Mar. 8, '70; 
in. Hannah, 6 May 20, '71 ; iv. Irene, 6 b. pr. at Fairlee; v. Parker, 6 s. at 
Potsdam, N. Y. ; vi. Job, 6 s. in Genesee Co., N. Y. ; vn. Daniel, 6 Hon., 
r. N. part of Vt. ; vm. Tho. 6 r. do.; ix. Wm., 6 rm. to Western States. 
31. x. John, 6 rm. to do. 



152 HOLBROOK. 

7. 32. Daniel, 3 first styled Smith, and in 1712 Farmer, resided at Roxbury, where 
he perhaps d. or more probably removed with his sons to Lebanon, Ct. He 
m. Elizabeth Seaver, May 29, 1696, and had at R., i. Daniel, 4 June 28, 
1696-7, d. July 12, 1697; II. Elizabeth, 4 Apl. 1, 1698-9 ; in. Daniel, 4 
Oct. 25, 1701, d. yg. ; iv. Nathaniel, 4 July 31, 1703, "d. at Lebanon, 
Jan. 25, 1787, aged 84;" v. Daniel, 4 Jan. 12, 1704. A Daniel of 
Stoughton, aged about 19 years in 1723, chose Samuel Paul, of Dorchester, 
to be his guardian. 

Lt. Daniel, of Sto., pr. the same, was surveyor, 1747-8, '54, '58, 'G2, m. 
Mary Stone, 1758, and d. Dec. 24, 1762, intestate, and administration was 
granted his wid., Mary, Jan. 28, 1763, [Suff. Prob., 61, 169.1 She d. Sep. 
29, 1775. 

John, of Sto., pr. his s. by a former wife, and b. while Sto. was a part of 
Dorchr., had a son bap. Sep. 6, '78. 
A Daniel* had at New Haven, 

i. Lydia, Dec. 25, 1729 ; n. Mabel, Oct. 22, '31 ; in. Isabel, Sep. 

10, '34; iv. Abigail, June 2, '37; v. David, Dec. 15, '39; 

vr. Daniel, Nov. 12, '42 ; vn. Hannah, June 23, '44-5. 
vi. Abel, 4 June 28, 1705 ; vn. Abel, 4 Feb. 16, 1706-7, resided in Leb- 
anon, 1742 ; vin. Elizabeth, 4 Dec. 23, 1709 ; ix. Samuel, 4 Dec. 13, 1712, 
d. July 25, 1714 ; x. Sarah, May 31, 1713, d. Sep. 12, 1714; 
XI. Nicholas. 4 Dec. 17, 1711, resided at Lebanon ; 
40. 39. xn. Pelatiah, 4 Mar. 14, 1717, resided in Lebanon. 



39. 40. Pelatiah, 4 appears to have s. in Lebanon, and to have been the father of 
i. Pelatiah, 5 b. Aug. 25, 1743, who m. Mary Clark, r. Leb., and had, 

i. Pelatiah, 15 Aug. 1, 1769, d. Oct. 13, '75; n. Mary, 6 Aug. 7, '71, 
d. ab. 1820 ; in. Eliphalet, 6 Feb. 15, '73, m. Hannah Wilson„r. Pots- 
dam, N. Y. ; iv. Nathaniel, 6 Oct. 18, '78 ; v. Wm., 6 Aug. 23, '81, 
rs. Painsville, Oh. ; vi. David, June 9, '85. 
ii. Sarah, 5 Aug. 17, 1758, d. Oct. 25, 1757; in. Daniel. 5 



CHAPTER III 



6. Daniel, 2 w. Miriam , resided at Dedham, Roxb. and Dorchr. He 

"late of Dorch.," d. intestate, ab. 1673. Administration first granted his 
wid. Miriam, and by her renounced, was granted, Nov. 7, 1673, to " his 
brother," John Holbrook, of Roxb., and Tho. Harris, " the greatest credi- 
tor," who, Sep. 1, 1673, had made oath to an inventory of his estate, "he 
late of Roxb." [Suff. Prob., xxiii. 7.] He had, i. Daniel," Aug. 18, 
1667, at Dedham ; n. Abigail, 3 May 13, 1669. 

10. 7. in. Daniel, 3 Nov. 13, 1671, m. Abigail Craft. 

11. 8. iv.? Eleazer, 3 probably who m. Elizabeth. 
15. 9. v.? Nathaniel, 3 pr. the eldest if his child.? 

7. 10. Daniel, 3 m. Abigail Craft, at Roxb., May 29, 1698, who d. Nov. 5, 1702, 
He d. July 31, 1719. For inventory of his estate, [see Suff. Prob., 21, 
281.] He had, i. Rebecca, 4 Feb. 9, 1699; n. Abigail, 4 Aug. 13, 1700. 
He not improhably had another family. 

* Perhaps the grd. s. of Richard, of Huntington, Long Island. See p. 139. 



II OL 15 ROOK. 153 

8. 11. Eleazer, 3 seems to have been drawn to Medfield by bis uncle Tbo., and to 

have been intimate 'with his sons. He by w. Elizabeth , at Medf'ld, had 

12. i. Eleazer, 4 1G93 ; n. Joseph, 4 1695 ; in. Elizabeth, 4 1696 ; iv. A son, 4 
1698; v. Miriam, 4 1700, named pr. for his mother ; VI. Mary, 4 1700; 
vir. Rachael, 4 1701-2 ; via. Silence, 4 1704, named pr. for the wife of his 
neighbor and cousin, John,' 1 of Sherborn ; ix. Abigail, 4 170-. 

9.? 15. Nathaniel, 3 * had by wife Lydia , at Medfield ; i. Lydia, 1 1G87 ; 

ii. Nathaniel, 4 1689; in. Elisha, 4 1691 ; iv. Deborah, 4 1694 ; v. Sarah, 4 
1698; vi. Ephraim, 4 1701--2 ; vn. Josiah, 4 1706 ; vm. Ann, 4 July 21, 
1708; ix. Edward, 4 Sep. 14, '10; x. Nathaniel, 4 Oct. 22, '15. 



CHAPTER IV. 



7. Samuel," senr., of Weym., (p. 139), appears from his will, reported in 
Mitchell's His. of Bridgewater, to have left an estate, 169G, to his children. 

8. i. Cornelius, 3 ii. Wm. 3 ; in. Elizabeth, 3 b. at Scituate, Dee. 14, 167G? 
the w. of John Buck ; iv. Mehetabel, 3 w. of Jona. Sprague ; v. Jane, 3 the 

wife of Balcom ; " vi.V Persis, 3 b. Oct. 11, 1676 7 by wife Mary ; " 

vn. Hopestill, 3 a dau. unm. 1696, named pr. for a dau. his bro. Tho., of 
Sherborn, had lost. 



NOT TRACED. 

1. Abner Holbrook, of Townsend, Vt, where the name is common, ra. Sarah 

Lee, and had i. Harriet, nl. Sam. Stevens ; n. Adin, b. 1802, m. Mary 
Hallet, rs. New York ; in. Harvey, is. T. ; iv. Chester ; v. Horton ; 
vi. Sarah ; vn. Benj. 

2. John, doubtless the grd. s. of Wm., 2 and pr. son of John, 3 of p. 136, m. Deb- 

orah Thayer at Mend., Dec. 19, 171G. She d. Jly. 24, 1750, at M. 

3. John, of Uxb., m. Zilpah Thayer, of Mend., Mar. 11, 1732. 

4. John, of Uxb., a Quaker, m. Jan. 13, 1762, Lydia Holbrook, of Bellingh., left 

an estate inventoried, Sep. 12, 1774, at £696, to be divided between his wid. 
Lydia and children Micba, Amoriah, John, and Ilboda : viz., to Micah, his 
right to common lands in Mend, and the N. part of his homestead in U. ; to 
Amoriah, land near the pond in M. ; to John, the homestead and care of wid. 

5. John, m. Martha Wilson, Sep. 6, 1757, at Mendon. 

6. John, of Uxb., m. Rboda Thayer, of M., Dec. 6, 1770. 

7. Peter, of Uxb., m. Lydia Darling, of Mend., May 27, 1761. 

8. Peter, of Mend., ra. Mary Taft, June, 178G. 

9. Deborah, m. Jos. Torrey, Sep. 6, 1752, at M. [See recs. of Uxb. and Sturb.] 

10. Amariah, w. Keziah, had Otis, Nov. 24, 1783, at Mend. 

11. John, Esq., [pr. s. of Dea. Ebenr., p. 151,] m. Anna Field, r. Pomfret. 

12. Silas, [pr. Pt. i, Ch. in, No. 25,] who, July 1,1717, drew pay as surgeon's mate. 

13. John, Esq., of Sturb., had Phebe, m. Dwight Harding, [b. 1807.] 

14. Chloe, of Oxford, m. Preserved Pierce, of Brookline, Ct., Sep. 9, 1821. 

* Nathaniel, whom I have doubly queried, should be classed with estravs — might have been 
the son of Nathaniel of Pt. II, No. VII. 

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Daniel Holbrook, ? Harv. Col., 1719, A. B. 
Pt. i. Ch. i. 53. Samuel Holbrook, do., 1734, A. B. 
Pt. ii. Ch. I. 59. Josias Holbrook, Brown U., 1788, A. B. 

Josephus Holbrook,? Brown U., 1791, A. B. 

Abiel Holbrook, ? Har. Col., 1800. 

Samuel Holbrook,? Yale Col., 1801. 
Pt. ii. Ch. i. 142. Moses Holbrook, Har. U., 1808. 

Josias Holbrook, ? Yale Col., 1810. 
Pt. i. Ch. ii. 270. Amos Holbrook, Dart. Col., 1807, M. D. 

Clarendon G. Holbrook, ? Harv. U., 1837, M. D. 

Levi Holbrook, ? Ver. U., 1811, A. B. 
Pt. i. Ch. ii. 261. Willard Holbrook, Brown U., 1814, A. B. 
Pt ii. Ch. i. 59. JohnE. Holbrook, do., 1815, A. B. 
Pt. ii. Ch. i. 59. Silas P. Holbrook, do., 1815, A. B. 

John Holbrook,? Mid. Col., 1828, A. B. 

Stephen E. Holbrook, ? Amh. Col., 1839, A. B. 
Pt. i. Ch. ii. 261. Amory Holbrook, Bod. Col., 1841. 



TO THE HOLBROOKS. 



Gent. : Since the foreoging was in type I have received assurance of such aid in 
the examination of records in England as may enable me or the inheritor of my MSS. 
to render this work more certain, complete, and available. Being descended on both 
sides from ancestors in common with thousands of Holbrooks, a circumstance that led 
to this production, I shall be most happy to receive and impart more of their history ; 
and if this humble offering should prove acceptable, a supplement may follow it, con- 
taining information expected from England, notes and obituaries of many only here 
named, and the history of branches not yet fully traced. To accumulate materials for 
such an addition and improvement will require delay and the aid of others. In the 
mean time let any of the race who have records and notes to communicate, direct the 
same to me at Boston, to the care of Mr. Charles C. Holbrook, No. 305 Washing- 
ton st., pointing out any error in this work, however trivial, that can be detected ; and 
bearing firmly in mind that it is only by concentrating the correspondence and 
patronage in the hands of one man, and he not merely desirous of the undertaking, 
but by situation and long experience rendered competent to it, that the desired im- 
provement can be made and issued. Direct your letters, then, as here requested ; 
and if I fail to arrange a supplement, I will pass them to some Holbrook, high- 
minded, honorable, and competent, tender of reputation, and alive to the honor of the 
name, who shall consent to receive our MSS., and act in my place. Antiquarians 
desire emulation, but they all deprecate and despise competition. The former assists, 
the latter defeats the labors of all. 

Yours very affectionately, 

ABNER MORSE. 

N. B. Each purchaser of a copy of this book is requested to leave or forward his 
address. 



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Pt T Ph II No. 961. Stephen Holbrook, 4 m. only Mary Penniman — -wa« 
contomponrv will, a Stephen II. of Grafton and a Stephen II. of ^*°- " bo »° r 
childr^ under No. 261 have been confounded irith his. He had i. Willard' 
Rev, A.M. : ii Amory, 7 drowned Jly. 20, 1816; IB. Polly, d. yg. ; 
iv Mar/ ; v. Lewis," vi. Delia Maria/ 

Pt I Ch. If. No. 26lf Amory Holbrook/ Esq., A. M , was j born at Rowley, 
Mass An". 15, 1*20, became a distinguished scholar ; studied law w.th Hon. 
.1 C Perkins, of Salem, and bis cousin, Hon. Rufus Choate of Boston ; was 
admitted to the E<sex Co. Bar., '44 ; and in '49 by Pre.. T^^'Pr^ 
V S. Pis. Attorney for Oregon. He rs. at Oregon city, of which he is now 
the mayor. He m. Aug. '47. Mary Hooper Brought™, «»«■ o« NichoUon B.. 
Baq., of Marblehead. by wf. Nancy Hooper, dg. of Hon. Nath 1 II of M., 
and hud I. Willard Amory ,<• Sep. 1848; n. Annie Hooper" Jan. 18^0. 

Pt I Ch- II N.. 26U. Willard R. Holbrook.* m. Mary h. Abbott, dg. of John 
' and Lucy A. Abbott of Burlington, Vt. and re. a merchant at New York. 

Pt I Ch I No. 87. John Holbrooke used to say that be bad seen 9 John 
Holbrooks in one room ; and I find that his gr. grd. father, Wp. Cpt. John H., 
in 1778 had 9 living descendant* of this name. He m. Sybil Lane, b. aD. 
174 dg. of Peter L of Hingh. by wf. Wealtha Bradford.'b. May 15 1702, and 
d. ab.' L756. dg. of Samuel B.,' b. 1008. by wf. Hannah Rogers, ft. Weym. 
and grd. d e . of Maj. and Dcp. Gov. Wm. B.,-** b 1624 by wf. Alice R.chards; 
and «r K rd. dg. of Gov. Wm. Bradford 1 of Ply. by wf. Alice (pr. Carpenter) 
Southwortb. About the close of the American war he rm. from Dorcb. or 
Stough. to Newfane and d. in Frank. Co. Vt. 1819, a. 89. He bad 6 children, 



viz: 



i John « Jly. 10, 1761, who reed, a good education, engaged early in sur- 
' veying, and afterwards in trade at Wardsboro', and in 1794 at Brattle- 
boro'; and became of the firm, Porter & Holbrook, of Hartford Ct 
He was a very active, enterprising and successful merchant ; and resided 
1810-14 at E. Windaor, Ct. In 1815 he returned to B., • n 8 a g < * 1 
- extensively in the publication and sale of books, and d. there Apl. 5, 
1838 a. 77 ys, He m. Nov. 30. 1786, Sally Knowlton dg. of Hon. 
Luke K. of Newfane, and grd. dg. of Dea. Ewkiel K-, of Shrewsbury 
Mass.. and gr. grd. dg. of Tho. K., by wf. Margaret Goodhue, pr. dg. of 
Joseph G. ami grd. dg. of Wm. G., of Ips. 1635. He had 

1. Patty, 7 m. Wm. Fessenden, Oct. 9, 1808, bad 1 son and 3 dgs. 

2. Franklin, 7 d. Feb. 4, 1810, a. 18 yrs. 

3. Sibil Lane, 7 June 15, 1794, d. Jan. 28, 1835, m. Joeeph Fessen- 
den, r. B., had 3 sons and 3 dgs. 

4. Sallu, 7 Mar. 28, 1796, d. Sep. 5, 1849, at Baltimore, m. Geo. W. 
Hall of B. Sep. 17, 1818, who d. '27. and 2d, James Coale, June 
28, '28, and had by the former 2 sons and 2 dgs., and by the latter 
2 sons and 3 dgs. 

5 Sophia Knowlton, 7 Mar. 15, '98, d. unm. Nov. 9, 182L 

6. Lucinda, 7 Mar. 25, 1800, d. Nov. 8, '43, at Davenport, la., m 
Rodolpbus Bennet, '23, had 1 son and 1 dg. 

7. AYiza/Apl. 15,1804. 



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8. John Oal Jan 7. 1808, m. Cynthia B. Tuttle, and 2d, 

' lark, and had . r > sons and 1 dg. all Mr. II after 

ll edic«1 ag an ,i ending 

<s at B. and Boston ; and at the latter place was of the fii 

Richardson, Lord & Holbrook. Hewas the projector of the oompre- 

keoi eotary on the Bible, a work off, n edited 

"J l ' '."• dei.ks. and prepared under 

tion ; and also of theKncycloptvdia of relig. knowledge In 1X1 be 
was uoaosed to preach, and in 1843 ordained pastor of the Congl Chh. 
at Dubuque, Iowa. After an eminently succes>ful ministry bare of 1 1 
years, he was called to the editorial chair of the Congregational 1 1 
at Chicago which he accepted. While resident at C. be labored also 
as a minister, and was instrumental in gathering the N. Bog < longl 
Chh. in that city. Jan. 1, '5(1, he received a call to return to his 
former charge at Dabuque, where, as one of the first ministers of that 
city and the father of its 1st Congl Chh.. his instructing history 
may he found by my successor, who will mark coincidences of char- 
acter in him and his gr. gr. gr. grd. father, Capt. John, which, as 
in similar cases, have pr. been transmitted through each intervening 
generation. ° 

9. V/„ ./ A P 1. 20, 1810, d. Nov. '27, 1813. 

10. Frederick- Hon. Feb. 15, 1813, at E. Windsor, Ct., re. at B haa 
often been a member of the leg. of Vt ; is the author of able articles 
on agriculture, and Judgo of Probate for Wind. Co m. Harriet S 
Goodhue, Jan. IS, »35, has Frank F.,» and 2 other sons, 
n. Sally, d. ab. 1800, m. Nov. 80, 1786, Silas Knowlton, the brother 
of her sis, in law, and had 1. Paid Holland, 1 Hon*. ; 2. Luke, 1 ; 
3. Samantha, 1 4. a son, b. at Stukely, L. Canada, ab. 1800. 
hi. Sy]yan«s.'b. ab. 1770, m. Abigail Cheney, fr. Orange, Mass., and d. 

1846, at r ranklin, Frank. Co., Vt., leaving no sons. 
iv. Wealthy," d. in Franklin Co., Vt.. ab. 1845. 

v. "Joe,"' pr Joanna, d. 1851, a. ab. 70 ys. m. Doct. Cole, rs. 

-IN. Y., and had children rs. N. Y. 
Ti. George Bradford ,« Esq., b. Sep. 11, 1782, rm. to Chautauque Co., N. 
i., where he was elected a magistrate, held the offices of under-Sheriff 
and Jailer, and transacted a great amount of business. During 40 yrs. 
iaoT) a l mUCh BB, P 1, V? d in surveying lands in different States. Aiout 
18L- he rm. to Euclid, O., where he rs. an acting justice and solitary 
survivor of his generation. He m. May 28, 1812, Salinda Holden, who 
d. Nov. 17, 1831, and 2d, Selina Jones, Jan. 6, 1833, and had 11 
Children, 9 of whom survive, viz. 1. Persis,' Au^. 6, 1815, formerly 
Post mistress at Ripley, N. Y. ■ m. Elisha Bruce, and 2d, Wilson Mo- 

Clmtock, rs. 20 m. fr. Chicago. 2. Lane, 7 Jan. 27, 1817, in Dec. 

10, 38, Mary Hay ward, who d. Sep. 23, '48 ; and 2d, Sarah Ames, and 
keeps a public house upon the State line, on the road from Buffalo to 

• Hon Paul Holland Knowlton m. Laura Moss, b. 1788, rs. Eroom C. E. a gent, of wealth, 
?"%*'■ ounsellor. During the war of 1812 two maiden ladies, the only survivors 

in r.ng. ot an extinct race of Knowltons, being in quest of cis-Atlantic heirs, and' reading of 
the expulsion fr, m ( anada of a band of marauders from Vt. bv a force under hia command, 
kaaresstHl him letters of inquiry, and at length invited him to England, where through 
knowledge or the historj oi his ancestors be convinced them of his descent from a Knowlton 
stock, common to both parties, and after their decease received from them a princely l< 



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Erie. 3. Cordelia/ r». Chant Co. 4. Elbaaan Winchester/ Nor. 
88, '23, rs. urn. in Ashtabula Co. O. 5. Simon Bolivar/ Apl. 28, '26, 
m. Mar. 15, '47, Sarah Ann Harris, n. Chau. Co. 6. Caroline/ Jan. 
... '29, m. Phineas Smith, June 27, '46, rs. Ashtab. Co. 7. John/ 
Mar. 4. '31, m. Feb. 16, '53, AnnU Booth, (d.) : and 2d, Elizabeth 
Maskaline, fr. Eng., rs. Asbtab. Co. 8. Salinda/ Feb. 4, '34, m. Sep. 
6, '53, Henry Johnson, rs. Euclid. 9 Helen/ Oct. 20, '38, m. ApL 
30, '56, John Perew, rs. Cleveland. 

Pt. I. Ch. I. No. 90 and 156. Nathaniel,' rm. Cummington, Maw., and had 
iv. Galin, r. Ontario Co., N. Y. 

Pt. I. Ch. II. No. 268J. Rufus Holbrook, w. Mary Wyman, ra Charleston, had 
i. Mary W., 8 Oct. 2, 1823, (d.) m John C. Famsworth, of Somerville ; 
ii. Rufus H., 8 May 15, 27, m. May, 21, '48, CathWine E. Broadman 
r. Bos; in. Atwood D., 8 Apl. 16, '81, m. June 9, 53, Harriet C. 
Crehore, dg. of Geo. C. of Surry, N. H. ra Chs'town ; iv. Lydia Ann/ 
Sep. 8, '33, ra. Nov., '5 3, G. H. Cutler ; v. Henry J., 8 Feb. 2, '36,(d.) ; 
vi. Pamelia, 8 b. and d. Nov. 2, '38. 



Pt. I. Ch. II. No. 281. Solomon Holbrook, 8 bad also XIII. Richard/ b. Jly. 22, 
1811, who m. Catherine Bruce, rs. Waltham, has I. Maynard, 8 
ii. Caroline 8 ; in. Theodore K. 8 ; iv. Martha E. 8 ; v. Ch*. K.J 

PL II. Ch. I. No. 54 and 89. David, 6 Holbrook, Esq., d. Jan. 30, 1834, aged 
87 ys. " His early habits are said to have been marked by sobriety, and in 
his sentiments and conduct were exhibited the salutary fruits of seasonable, 
judicious and religious instructions, though he did not make a public profession 
of religion, until some time after the close of the Revolutionary war. 
Early imbued with the spirit of patriotism, and willing to make sacrifices for 
the welfare of Ais country, he was among the first to volunteer his services 
in our great Revolutionary struggle, and among the last to leave the field, 
while there was any supposed danger from foreign invasion. 
When the news of the battle of Lexington reached him, be was clearing a piece 
of fallow ground. He immediately left his tools in the place of bis work, and 
never again stepped upon the spot for eight years, or until after the close of 
the war. The part which be took in that eventful contest, we will describe in 
his own words, taken from a MS which he left with his friends. 
" I turned out as a volunteer, Apl. 20th, '75, and remained in different grades 
of office, till the close of the Revolutionary war, which was in June '83, and 
without fear of punishment, or hope of reward, except to save my country 
free and independent, in which I felt the church to be included, which I felt 
a strong interest in. 

" The actions in which I took part are as follows, Long Island, Harlem 
Heights, Frogs Point, White Plains, Danbury, Saratoga, White Marsh, Phil- 
adelphia, Monmouth, Newport, and several scouts for Indians. 
To the above statement is subjoined the following reflections and remarks : 
" I have lived to see the world full of perturbation, and have long been pre- 
paring to leave it, and gathering comfort for the important hour of making up 
my account with God, which 1 now apprehend to be near at band ; and I 
think I have, by his grace, been enabled to love bim in early life, and I think 
I find in my old age, I have labored to keep a conscience void of offence 
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'And since, Lord, I owo thee a death, permit it to be easy and tranquil, 
then choose thy own lime. I submit to th«e ; not my will hut tMne 1>»' done." 
Dating a considerable part of the war, Esq. Bolbrook sustained the rank of 
Captain, and we believe was erer approved by his sMj»<>ri'>r officers, 
who on all occasions, understood his duty and was ready to perform it. 
The orders of military discipline to which ho was accustomed in the Revolution, 
seemed in a greal measure, t" influence his feelings during hie subsequent life. 
Every thing transacted in public meetings, or on especial occasions, with 
which he had anything to do, he was desirous of seeing proceed with perfect 
Byetein. 

11' approached his dissolution with perfect composure, and his death, accord- 
ing to his prayers, was " easy and tranquil. " 

He gave all necessary directions concerning his funeral, and waited with 
resignation ft* his departure, saying, he had no will of his own." 
In 1784, he ni. Margaret Druee, dg. of l>r. John 1)., of Wreath , who sur- 
vived him. They had, 
I. John Druce, 7 Oct. 3<>, 17s."), d. Oct. 21, 1885, a gent, of rare refinement 
both natural and acquired, ardently loved by bis intimates and highly 
esteemed by a wide circle of acquaintance. He was by profession a teacher. 
He early commenced in dis. schools in his native town, rui. to Newark, N. .1., 
and next to New York, where he opened a select school for boys, in which 
he continued for many years under the patronage of families of the highest 
respectability. Here he united with the Presb. ('hh. under the care of Rev. 
Dr. Spring, and by bis consistent walk and liberality to well-chosen objects 
of charity, greatly honored his Christian profession. When worn out by 
labors, he retired to the home of his uncje Luther, then at Whiteboro', N. Y , 
in the bosom of whose family " he d. in a firm hope of a blessed future." 
ii. Chandler/ (see Pt II. Ch. I No. 90 and 154) whose wf. Deborah d. 1856 ; 
in. David Lyman, 7 Jan. 2, 1795, m. Mary Tuite, at Cincin, ()., aud d. sine prole 
at St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 4, 1844. 

Pt. II. Ch. I. No. 55. Adin,« m. Mar. 15, 1778, Hannah Day, of Keene, N. H., 
where he d. July 20, 1843, a. 91 yrs. and 3 mos. He had, 

i. Adin, 7 May 2, 1780, who invented in 1796, machinery for spinning flax 
by water, by which the labor of 3 days was performed in 1, and the first 
thread spun by water in the U. S. He m. Pollv Warren, b. Mar. 21, 
1790, and had, 1. Laurinda* Feb. Id, 1811, m. Chs. D. Abbott, mercht., 
and had Mary E., 9 Feb. 22, '43 ; 2. Chat. Warren': Feb. 0, 
1814, m. Sarah A. Boardman, dg. of Col. "Wm. B , of Nashua, rs. 
N< w York ; 3. Mary Abbott* Feb. 10, 1819, m. Onslow Stearns, 
has Chas. O.,' Mary L., 1 Margt. A. u 
it. Clariuda, 7 May 1*. 1782, m. Daniel Chapman, of K., mercht. Apl. 1">, 
1800, and'd. Dec. 0, 1811,had Clarinda: Harriet,* Hank.," Daniel 
Wm.* 
in. Chin., 7 Jly. V.\ 178G. m. Hon. B. M. Atherton, rs. 111. ; 
iv. Enos, 7 Sep. 17, '89, m. Mary Kendall, fr. Athol, b. Sep. 1700. had, 

1. Sarah: June 13, 1823 ; 2. M'/».,* Jan. 23. 1825 ; :!. Mary A., 6 
June 8. '27 ; 4. Clarinda A.* Aug. 15, '31, u. Oct. 5. '68 ; 
v. Cornelia, 7 July 2, 1792, m. Edwin Wales, rs. Westminster, Vt 



Tt. II. Ch. I. No. 58£. Calvin/ 1 b. Jan. 31, 17G3, m. Mary Bugbee, of Wrenth.. 
r. Brewer, Me. 



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Pu II. Ch. I. No. 57. Amos, 9 a Prof, of music, m. Sophia Cook, r. and <I. in New- 
ark, N. J., tawing nai, Stepben and Albert, now of N. 

Pt. II 01 1- N" 68 '''''•' '•'•.' ra. Chicago, HI . ni. Betas? Raid of Keen* 

1802. who d Dec 7, 1817 j mid 2 1, Sarah A. Darand, fr. Bethlebea, 
( t who d. Nov. 27, '46; id I Bd, Sophia Field, of Keene, ind ha I. 
i. Elisabeth Ann Jan I, 1805, m. Rdmond Blake (d) of Utica, N. V.. 
and re. Chicago, had 1 A'.///*. A' IF.,' Oet 81. 94; 2 Elizabeth A : 
July 7, '29, m. Henry Huntington, of L'tica. had Lilla,*and Emma,' 
;; Henry 11.: Sep. 7, '81, ■ Mary Fuller, of Chicago, ra. Rookford, III. ; 
J Herbtri .»/.." Mar. 12, '34 ; 5. Bamm A.. 1 Jan 7. '88, in. Witham 
Chads, ra, Mag. Falai ; <>. Francis L.; Sep. 20, 'id. 
ii. M ny, May 5. 1HD7, ■ Betl 11. Mann, ra. Rock Island, III., had Hat- 
tie, in. ■ — Miller, rs. Chu- 
rn. Am. . V M;iv -'•'». L809,at Winchester, N. II, m. Ellen 8. Briggs, of 
hioago, had 1. Lucat M.* Oil 2*. '88 ; 8. FJkn. A/.," Nov. 
17, '87 ; 8. Edmond li; Sep. 17, '39 ; 4. Ellen M., H No?. 16, '48 ; 
\. Jlirttett: June 18, '49' 
IV. Too.. 1 b. also May 26, '09, ni. Nancy Ferguson, of Whiteeboro', N. Y., 

rt Iloini •!•. N. V., his 4 dgs./ one in. to Dunhar. rs. II. 

v. Luther L .'" Dee 2S, l s l r >. m. Frances Wilder, of Keene (d.) and d. 

leaving Harriti ,/.: and Edwardf ra. K. 
vi. David A., r Bev. Jas 8, 1820, m. Susan Bartlett, of Poughkecpsie, r». 
Brooklyn, N. V., associated with Rev. Mr. Dwigbt, in the instruction of 
a High School f. r boys, has Dudley: and DwighC 
vn. Leverett II ,'' Sep. 15, 1821, m. Susan Jones, of Pen Yan, N. Y., has 
Dai id," and Frederick: 



Pt. I. Ch. II. No. 30. Tho. Holbrook,' r. Sturbridge, had, 

I. Asa,' m. Nabby Stacy, s. in Tuwnsend, Yt. bad, 1. Tho., 7 2. Dg., 1 

8. Sarah} 1. Alfred': 
u. Ezra/ m. Mehetabel Tyler, from Uxb., r. T., bad 1. Aimer. 7 2. Sarah, 7 
)n. Reuben Nichols; 3. Jerod; in. Cldoe Dunton, of T. j 4. Arba, 7 m. 
Miss HasletOD, of T. ; 0. llittty, 1 r*. unni. at T. ; 6. Sula, rs. do. 
in. Eli, 1 ' b. Feb. 11, 1740, lost bit father at the age of 11 ys , was adopted 
by his uncle Aaron, of Bell., whom be ever culled father, inherited land 
in Brinifd. bequeathed by bis grd. father, John, m. at Sturbridge, Nov. 
10, 1772, Sibil Thompson, who d. 1810, a. o'J ys. 5 mo. 22 d. He s. 
in 8., served in the Revolutionary war until the surrender of Burgoyne, 
and in 17*U rra. to T., where be d. 1828, a. 82 ys. 8 mo. and JO ds. 
He bad, 

1. Arad: May S 1 , 1771, at S. m. 1798, Patience Mason, of Putney, 

Yt . s. in T., had Orpha,' Mar. 4,1700, m. Gordon U. Gale, 
rs. T., Alva, s Aug. 28, 1 sou, d. June 18, 1804| Thompson,* 
Apl. 12, '04, rs. una). atT.; Vernon, s Oat. 25, 1805, m. Adeline 
Chamberlain, fr. Brattlab., rs Boston; Orissa,* June 23, 'o7, 
d. Aug. 29, '34 ; /aeon,' Jan. 17, *01, d. Oct. 12, '52, at St. 
Louis, in. Laura King, and had Chs • Norman/ May 29, '12, 
d. Feb. 23, '13 ; Oreille,* Dec. 21, 17, -n. Reuben H. Potter, 
rs. Carthage, N. Y. 

2. Warram. 7 Jly. 5, 1782, m. at T., Mercy Cody. fr. Brimfield, rm. 

to Harrisburg, Pa , where he d. Oct. 12, 1833. He had, 



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100 HOLBROOX. 

1. Alvah Morris, 8 Esq., Aug. 23, 1808, rs. at New Orleana, 
an associate editor and proprietor of the N. Orleans Picayune ; 

2. Marcus D., N Apl. 24, 1810, rs. Lancaster, Pa., formerly editor 
of the Lancastrian and Chronicle of the Times, m. and had 

Samuel Schock* and Mary Dorr, Oct 23, 1840 ; Alva 
Morris, 9 Dec. 16, '42; Hannah Slaymaker* Dec. 15, 
'44 ; Sarah Rebecca, Oct, 81, '46. 
8. Sibil Thompson, 8 Deo. 11, 1811, m. Adam Konigmacher 
Fohnestook,b. July 12, 1800, baa Harris* Holbrook* Edward 
Morris* James, 9 Sibil Amelia? Chs. Adam* Wallace Weir* 
4. Richy Warram, 8 rs. unm. at N. Orleans. 

3. Orra,' Oot. 28, 1785, m. 1822, Fanny Qloyd, of Jericho, Vt., b. 
Jan. 21, 1791, ra. Milton, Vt., had 1. Mariett F., 8 Sep. 2, 1827; 
2. Eli Thompson, 8 Oct. 16, 1832 

4. Eli, 7 Oct. 12, 1791, m. Jerusha White, and d. 1852, without issue, 
r. at Saratoga, was Sheriff and Pros, of a Fire Ins. Co., rm. and d. at 
Detroit. 

iv. Abner, 8 s. of Tho." above, perished in the revolutionary war. 
T. Elias, 6 m. May 2, 1774, at Sturb., Abigail Shumway, a. and d. in 

Townsend, Vt., leaving a family, who rm. to N. Y. 
vi. Rboda, 8 d. unm. ; vn. Lydia," ra. Jea. Walker, of T., had 5 sons, 7 3 dgs. 

Pt. I. Ch. II. No. 32. Moses, 3 m. Ruth , and hnd at Sturb. i. Mary, Nov. 18, 

1747; ii. Hannah, Apl. 10. '52; ui. Amos, Mar. 13, '54; iv. Ruth, Dec. 
23, '57. He rm. to Townsend, Vt., d. leaving 1 son and 3 dgs. 

Pt. II. Ch. I. No. 145. Clark Holbrook, 1 m. Betsey Bullen.b. Mar. 17, 1795, dg. 
of Judathan B , by w. Dolly Clark, rm. to Walpole, N. H. to conduct an ex- 
tensive farm for Col. Mason, of Bos. Four years afterwards he purchased 
two farms at Dummerston, Vt , on which he resided several ys. In 1840 he 
rm. to Lowell, where hed. Feb. 24, '41. He had 

i. James Clark, 8 Esq., May 27, 1817, m. May, '45, Isabella Eliza McDill, of 

Hamilton. O., dg. of Kev. David McDill, D. D. ; studied law in the 

office of Gov. Bebb, of O. ; was admitted to the bar of that State, but s. 

at Chester, 111. ; has 1. lhtvid Clark* 2. Clara* 3. Edward Everett* 

H. Moses, 8 b May 10. 1810, m. Doroas Ann Spofford, dg of Col. S. of 

Buxton. Me., rs. B.. bad, 1. Albert* (d.) ; 2. Geo.*; 8. Emma* 
in. Lowell, 8 b. June 20, 1821. d. Oct, 14, '89, at Lowell, 
iv. Horatio Nelson, 8 Esq., b. Nov. 29, '23, studied law with his brother ; 
was admitted to practice in all the courts of 111., but now rs. in Bos. 
Ho m. Henrietta Williams, of Buxport, Me., has Olin Adams* b. July 
20, '55. r 

v. Frederic Augustus." b. Feb. 15, 1829, m. Jan. 2, '63, Harriet Battles, 

dg. of Cyrus B , of Lowell, M. L., has Willis Paul* b. Aug., '54. 
ti. Sarah Ann E./ b. Feb. 17, 1831, m. Oot. 7, '49, Silvanus Coleman, rs. 

Milford. 
v. Robert Shillabcr D , 8 b. Feb. 4, 1833, rs. M. 



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PL I. Ch. II. No. 86. Benajah Holbrook,* Esq., emigrated in early life from 
Bellingbam to N. Adams, Mass. Here be m. Judith Badger, and prior to 1 810 
removed to Riga, Monro Co., N. Y. About 1840 be moved from R. to Cbili in 
tbe same Co., where his lady deceased. He then went to Livonia, Wayne Co., 
Mich., where he spent the remainder of his days with his daughter, Roena. 
He was by avocaiion a farmer, inherited an excellent constitution, was never 
sick until shortly before his death, and was to wise and happy in the choice of 
a wife as to transmit bis excellent constitution to his children ; and if bis ex- 
ample in this thing could reach and control the future generations of the race, 
he would be one of their greatest benefactors. Mr. H. served as Maj. in the 
militia, in the war of 1812, and waa for a time stationed at Buffalo. " He 
was never in any battle, yet constantly doing battle for Gen. Jackson.' During 
bis residence at Riga be transacted much publio business, and was repeatedly 
elected a justice of tbe peace. He had 

i. Judith/ in. Jan. 1826, Henry Ide, who d. 1833, and 2d, Davis, rs. 

ML Morris, N. Y., had 1. Helen Ide* Nov. 1826; 2. Che. Henry Ide* 
ii. Benajah, 7 b. Jan. 26, 1805, was a mercht., r. San Francisco, Cal., 

where he d. Sep. 27, 1850. He m. Jerusha E. Ingraham, Apl. 13, '30, 

who (1. Oct. 8, 1835, and 2d, Jane Herr, May 19, 1836, who rs., with 

her children, at Plymouth, Mich. They had, 1. Benajah* Jan. 7. 1834 ; 

2. John H*Au%. 27, 1839. 3. Sarah J* July, 11, 1841. 4. 

Roena* Dec. 20, 1842. 5. Mary Ann,* Julf 26, 1845. 6. George* 

July, 4, 1848. 
in. Henry 1$./ formerly a mercht., now rs. a land agent at Grand Rapids' 

Mich., m. Nov. J 8, 1832, Sarah Woodruff, had 1. Chas. Henry* Dec" 

2, 1834. 2. Mary* June 2, 1842. 3. Ella* Feb. 2, 1847. 4* 
Kate* Aug. 23, 1848. 

iv. Mary Ann, 7 m. Doct. Willard Slocum, Aug. 31, 1831, wbo d. Jan. 17, 
1847 ; and 2d, Jona. F. Chubb, Jan. 8, 1849, wbo rs. as a mercht. at 
Grand Rapids, bad 1, Herbert Slocum* Feb. 27, 1837. 

v. Charles/ m. Eliza Pinkney, Feb. 19, 1845, rs. as a farmer at Lansing, 
Mich., had, 1. Edward P., 8 Jan. 30, 1846; 2. John* Oct., 1, 1848; 

3. Chat. H .* Apl. 30, 1856. 

vi. Roena,(notRoxa,)b.Dec. 14, 1813, m. Julius C.Willcox, Dec. 31. 1840, 
who rs. a farmer at Livonia, Mich., bad, 1. John E.* Mar. 11, 1845 ; 2. 
Caroline E.* Jan. 16, 1847 ; 8. Julia S.* May 27, 1849 ; 4. Julius 
E.* Dec. 1, 1852. 

vn. Milton/ b. Jan. 14, 1817, m. Sarah A. Bronson, Deo. 2, 1844, who d. 
Jan. 9, 1853; and 2d, Electa Woodruff, Oct. 4, 1855, sister of his br's. 
wife, and now lives at Detroit, a gen. collecting agent ; bad, 
1. Nettie B.* Mar. 29, 1849. 
viii. DeWitt C/ Holbrook/ Esq., a lawyer of good standing in the profession, 
and a gentleman much esteemed in society, rs. at Detroit ; m. Sep. 26, 
1850, Mrs. Mary A. Berdan, dg. of Tho. P. May, senr., of Plymouth, 
Mich., and formerly from London, Eng., and had, 1. DeWitt C* jun., 
b. May 25, 1 851 ; 2. Mary* Apl. 23, 1853 ; 3. John BuUdey* Dec. 
25, 1854. 

ix. Ursula True/ m. Sylvester Fuller, ab. 1853 ; and rs. at Utica, Mich. 

PL II. Ch. 1. No. 58$. Calvin Holbrook, b. Jan. 31. 1763, d. Apl. 11, 
1813. He m. Mary Bugbee of Wrenth., May 20. 1790, and s. 1792 at 
Orrington, now Brewer, Me, d. Sept. 14, 1826; was a very indubtri- 






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ous man, and like most of tho Wrenth. branch, distinguished for music, 
of which he w:i- a. teacher. He had, 

i. Calvin/ jun., b. Nov. 17, 1791, d. Feb. 10, 1846, m. Martha 
Blood ; was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in tho Hampden bat- 
tle. S,>j,. 5, 1814. ' 
ii. Sully, 7 Sep. 21, 17 l .>3, d. Apl. 17, 1833, m. Nathan Kingsbury, 
ha.J, 1. Lewis, 6 rs. a farmer in B. ; 2. Nathan * rs. u inercht. at 
Bradford, and three others, d. 
in. Hervey/ Apl. 28, 1796, d. Dee. 1"), 1839, m. Phebe Fitts of Wor- 
cester, Mass., had 7 children: 1 of whom now r. at Indian Orchard, 

iv. Watson/ Apl. 11, 1798, in. Mary Ann Burr, rs. 15., had, 1. Chs. 
Watsom* Jui. 7, 1882, d. Oct, 80, '82; 2. Chs. Watson, 6 Aug. 
31, '38, rs. Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal. ; 8. James Warren 6 
Aug. 23, '37, is a mariner; 4. John Calvin; Sep. 27, '11 ; 5. 
Infant, b. and d. Feb. 4, '45 ; 6. Samuel Bugbee; May 13, '46 ; 
7. Mary Annah Gushing* Jan. 2, '51. 
v. Mary/b. " A." 19, 1801, m. Dea. Alex'r Arno Fisher, had 5 

childrc?i, two of whom r. with their parents in B. 
vi. Abigail; b. June 12, and d. June 14, 1808. 

vii. Julia Ann/ Feb. 10, 1804, d. Aug. 23, '42, m. John Holyoke, had 
three children, 6 all r. B. 
Tin. James Hastings, 8 Mar. 29, 1806, inhabits the homestead in IS. 
iv. Nancy/ Jly. 20, 1808, d. Mar. 20, 1830. 

x. Samuel Bugbee/ Jly. 15, 1811, in. Humphrey, at Warren, 

R. I., where he is. a ship carpenter. 
Pt. I. Ch. II. No. 258. George Holbrook/ m. Mary Staples, dg. of Simeon 
S. of Mend., who d. Sep., 1835 : and 2d, Mrs. J;me K. Bugbee, dg. of 
of the excellent Dea. John Robinson, formerly of Brookline, where he 
now rs. He had by his first wf. 

l. George R., 8 m. Abby Warren, rs. Nebraska, has 1, Mary Staples ; 

2, Alfred* now in New York. 
ii. Benj., 8 rs. Milford. 
in. Mellen, 8 re. Brookline. 

iv. Albert, 8 d. in New York, leaving a wid. and chd. 9 
v. Delia/ m. Mr. Dean or Bean, rs. Milford. His other children d yg. 
P. II. Ch. I. No. 38. Moses/ b. 14, 1738, at Grafton, where he died Mar. 26, 

1802. He m. Mary , who d. May 15, 1788, and had at G. only 

i. Moses, 6 b. Oct. 28, 17G7, d. Jan. 1,1808, m. Sally ,r G , bad 

1. Austin, 7 Sept. 27, 1702, m. Martha G. Harrington, Nov. 28, 1816. 

2. Bobert Afe/fen/May 10, 1704, in. Clarissa J. Pierce, Dec. 17. 181C 

3. Puuh- Oct. 2, 1706. 4. Sail,,, 7 May 6, 1798. Mary U'./ May 
6, 1798, d. Oct. 7, 1815. 6. Martha,' Mar. 14, 1802. 7. 
Candace, 7 Mar. 4, 1X04. 

Pt. II. Ch I. No. 36. Win.,'' m. Sarah Batcheller, May 15, 175.'?, and bad at G. 
I Sarah/ Mar. 4, 1754. II. Hannah/ Apl. 13, '57. III. Josiah/ Apl. 
15, '50. iv. Nathaniel/ Mav 23/01. v. Anna," May 29, '03 vi. 
Mary, 8 Sept. 22. '05. vn. Stephen, 6 Oct. 8, '67. d. May 2G, 1850, m. 

Sally .who d. Jan. 3_>. 1822, a. 4:!, and had atG. 1. Polly, Aug. 3, 

1700. 2. Lewis, Oct. 16, 1800, rs. G. 3. Josiah, Oct. 18, '02. 4. 
Asenath, Aug. 1, '05. 5. Wm , Jly 9, '07, d. '56, at Leices. m. 



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6. Sally B.; r Aug. 20, 1809. 7. Martha P., 7 Jan. 19, '12. 8. Han- 
nah G.J Jan, 12, '14. 9. Edmond Stephen, 7 Apl. 23, '16. ix. Am/ 
Nov. 16, 1769; x. Martha, 6 Deo, 7, '71 ; xi. Patty, 8 Juno 82, 78, 
2. Austin Holbrook/ Esq., s. of Moses* by wf. Sally Mellon, and grd. s. of 
Moses 4 by wf. Mary Whipple, is a highly respected citizen of Grafton, 
and resides upon the place first improved by his gr. grd. f. John, 4 who was 
registered as belonging to Mendon. He had, by wf. Martha G. Harrington, 
i. Martha Harrington, 8 Apl. 19, 1818, d. Feb. 13, '56, in. Lorenxo 

Leland, Esq., of Ottawa, 111. 
ii. Sarah Caroline, 8 Jly. 29, 1820, died Jan. 17, 1821. 
in. Charles Austin, 8 Dec. 6, 1821, m. Saraho W. McNatnard, b. atG., 
Dec. 9, 1821, and rs. at Worcester, engaged in the boot and shoe 
business, 
iv. George Mellen, 8 Oct. 28, 1823, rs. at Chicago, 111. 
v. Ann Frances, 8 Sep. 6, 1825, died May 5, '51. 
Wm., 8 Deo. 8, 1828, rs. a farmer at Ottawa, 111. 
Frederic, 8 Oct. 28, 1830, rs. a mcrcht. at Ottawa. 
Ferdinand, 8 Nov. 21, 1833, rs. at Geneseo, 111. 
Benj. Estabrook, 8 May 21, 1835, rs. a clerk at Worcester. 
John Mellen, 8 Mar. 12, 1838, rs. at W. 



' p. 102. Harvey/ 3J chd. of Calvin, m. Phebe Fitts, Sep. 1, 1821, dg. of John 
F. of Charlton, and had 
i. Calista, 8 Nov. 7. 1822 ; ii. Lorinda, 8 Feb. 13, '24, d. Oct. 13, 
'27 ; hi. John Fitts, 8 Feb. 27. 1825, d. Aug. 27, '28 ; iv. Lou- 
isa, 8 Oct. 17, 1826, d. Oct. 17, '27 ; v. Lucy, 8 Sep. 9, 1828, d. 
Mar. 17. '34; vi Julia Ann 8 Jly. 21, 1830, d. Mar. 7, '34 ; vn. 
Chester, 8 May 25, 1832 ; vm. Fanny Elita, Nov. 16, 1834 ; ix. 
John Chandler, 8 June 16, 1837; x. Elvira, 8 Aug. 23, 1839, d. 
Nov. 5, '44. This family since 1854 have r. at Indian Orchard, 
Mass. 
Pi. II. C!i. 1. No. 57. Amos Holbrook, Esq., with a view to the ministry, gd. 1807 
at I Ian . College, where he had acquired a thorough classical educa- 
tion ; but having become the subject of an organic affection which 
would embarrass if not speedily terminate his labors in the pulpit, 
he relinquished his darling and long cherished purpose and devoted 
himself to teaching. The instructions which he gave in tho Latin, 
Greek and Hebrew Languages, led to his being styled Prof. H. 
He was an eminent musician, and long served the 2d Pres. Church 
in Newark, N. J. as chorister. July 26, 1849, this amiable man 
closed his useful life, " in full hope of Him for whom he had lived." 
Aged '72. He had by wf. Sophia Cook, still r. in N., 
i. Sophia, 7 Jly. 16, 1809, m. June 11, '26, John Edward West, jun., 
fr. New York, rs. Newark. 

ii. Amos Stephen, 7 Nov. 23, 1817, m. Nov. 7, '44, Elizabeth Adams 
Randcl, dg. of Wm. Stephen li., of Albany, N. Y., rs. N , a printer 
and successor to his honored father as chorister to the 2d Pres. Ch. 

in Andrew Law, 7 Nov. 20, 1821, m. Nov. 21, '44, Elizabeth B. Nich- 
ols, and d. Oct. 22, '47, soon after the commencement of u brilliant 
career in the legal profession. 

iv. Albert Marsh. 7 Apl. 27, 1827, m. Dec. 23, '48, Mary Emily D. 
Garretson, rs N. 



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Ch II. No 53 Silvanua Holbrook, 4 d. at Uxb. ab 1782 « t% wui 
Tbajrer who J. Uia wid. Dec 10, 1798, a. 73 -had ' ' ^ nkfal 

«• fS^-lAprl 21, 1750, m. Molly fh.rer . in Don* h*l 1 

H. Ruth, 8 Aug. 10, 1751 P ' * Damel L< * ee ' T ' Dm 8- 

m. Rachel," Nov. 6, '53. 
iv. Comfort, 6 Mar. 12, '56. 

v. Margaret,* Aug. 14, '57. 
vi. Thankful, 8 Feb. 23, '60 
vii. Mollv," Feb. 1, '62. 

v,,, "^raiirj!i'^> J i% 1 8 ^^ 8 ^i i -jiw.H-.. 

Su/<m w #?*;• S Woree9,er - hM Wi "» rd ft WJ 

J, 1 ?' b - » ls ?' A A PnlJ. '95, d. J.n. 2, 1855, L SlTwL* 
J9, Hannah O. Satton. b. Au B . 16 1819 Air «ru.s .?n 

1. Mzabeth F.< m. James C. Southwick. 
O. Lhloe/ Aug. 13, 1801, d. '55 m Nov 14 '29 T™. i? o ^ 

" K W B 11 ^ 7 ! 8 ' 8 in 7 M - d ^ Blackstone,-bad 1. Nel- 
Willard/ r B ' Jraan ' w * at the homestead, has 6 children 8 ; 3. 

xi. Lucy, 8 Sep. 13, 1770. 



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Lewis Holbrook/ b. Nov. 12 1801 m fW 9 >aa ai • » t> . 

j«i^2 M ^7'£;n ha i d 4, 1 .5 A,ul ' ide "•• July 24, >45 ; 2 - &**. 



JENNINGS, JOHNSON, 155 

1. Daniel Jennings, m. Elizabeth Cozzens, July 11, 1739, had at H., 
i. Isaac, Jan. 24, 1739-40, d. Oct. 21, '43; n. Susanna, Dec. 20, '41, d. 
Oct. 19, '43; in. Susanna, Dec. 30, '43, d. Oct. 18, '56; iv. Elizabeth, 
Mar. 16, '45-6; v. Martha, Aug. 15, '48; vi. Patience, Mar. 15, '53, 
m. Simeon Miller, '74. 
5. 2. vn. Daniel; vin. Susanna, Apl. 3, '61, m. and r. Dublin; 
ix. Abigail, Sep. 22, '63. 

3. Jesse Jennings, w. Hannah, r. H., had, i. Selecte, Mar. 18, '97 ; 
ii. Horris, Apl. 8, '88. 

2. 5. Daniel, m. Lydia , and inherited the homestead in N. E. corner of 

H., now Ashland, and had, i. Isaac, Mar. 15, 1777 ; n. Lydia, Dec. 18, 
'72 ; m. Micah, July 25, '79. 

6. Isaac, pr. s. of Daniel, senr., m. Abigail, and had at H. i. Nabba, 
Feb. 1, 1782; n. Calvin, Nov. 21, '86. 



1. Nathaniel Johnson, born at Roxbury, Mar. 21, 1669, had a lot 
assigned him in S., Mar. 8, 1696, and either d. or rm. soon after. His w. 
was Abigail , and he was pr. the father of, 

5. 2. i. Joseph, who remained at S. and H. and inherited his lands and rights, and 

d. Mar. 25, 1744-5 ; n. Nathaniel, who m. Mary Haven, Nov. 23, 1708, 
and had Jona., Jan. 30, 1709-10 ; in. Wm., who m. Mary Morse, and had 
at S., Sarah, Mar. 20, 1716; iv. Mary, who m. Noah Morse, 1705; 
v. Martha, Feb. 19, 1696-7 ; vi. Mehetabel, Oct. 15, 1699. 

2. 5. Joseph, m. Lydia , drew land in Doug., 1715, and r. where Jonas 

Curtis rs. in H., and had, i. Lydia, July 27, 1709. 

15. 6. ii. Moses, Nov. 18, 1711. 

20. 7. hi. Isaac, Mar. 28, 1714 ; iv. David, July 8, 1719. 

28. 8. v. Elisha, Nov. 20, '20. 

24. 9. vi. David, Aug. 28, '23 ; vn. Sarah, July 18, '27 ; vm. Joseph, '29. 

11. 10. ix. Joseph, Jan. 30, '31. 

10. 11. Joseph, m. Marcy Cousins, May 1, 1755, who d. '70. He m.? 2d, 

Keziah , who d. July 26, '78, and had at H, i. Mercy, May 19, 1758. 

ii. Joseph, Apl. 26, '60. 
46. 13. in. Silvanus, Dec. 18, '61, m. Marcy ; iv. Zuba, Sep. 27, '63, d. 

unm. ; v. Rhoda, June 10, '65, m. July 27, '82, Samuel Rockwood ; 

vi. Lois, June 3, '67, m. Moses Rockwood, of Med. ; 

vn. Eneas, May 10, '69, m. and had a family, and d. in H. about 1808. 

6. 15. Moses, m. Sabilla Plimpton, of S., May 18, 1732, had at H. 

39. 16. i. Simeon, June 22, 1733 ; n. Sabilla, Oct. 4, '34 ; in. Moses, Oct. 5, 
'38; iv. Lydia, Sep. 15, '42; v. Zedakiah, Dec. 5, '40, d. July 5, '45; 
vi. Mary, Feb. 24, '44-5; vn. Ithamer, Jan. 10, '52; 

7. 20. Isaac, m. Abigail Leland, of H, Feb. 15, 1736-7, who d. Aug. 23, '45, 

2d, Elizabeth Jones, Sep. 21, '49. 
35. 21. i. Abner, Sep. 10, 1737, at H. ; n. Isaac, May 8, '39; in. Hannah, 

Feb. 7, '41 ; iv. Abigail, May 26, '43, d. July 29, '45. 
38. 23. v. Reuben, Apl. 12, '45. 



156 JONES. 

9. 24. David, m. Sarali Foster, May 25, 1749, 2d, Keziah Parker, Dec. 13, '56. 
r. ia N. part of H. bad, i. David, May 25, '50, m. Ede Bullard, Nov. 3, 
'72, r. Chester, Vt, and was killed by a tree; n. Samuel, June 12, '52, 
d. Aug. 27, '95 ; in. Sarah, Sep. 29, '57, by 2d w., and m. James Perry, 
'82; iv. Timothy, Mar. 21, '59. 
41. 28. v. Nathaniel, Esq., Mar. G, '61. 

8. 28. Elisha, m. Mary Guy, of H., Oct. 1, 1741, bad at H., i. Perry, Mar. 24, 
'41-2; ii. Levi, Feb. 1, '44-5; in. Aaron, Dec. 26, '47; iv. Elisha, 
Apl. 6, '49, m. Hephzibah Adams, '70; v. Zedakiab, Apl. 19, '51, m. 
Rhoda Bullard, '72, 2d, Ruth Perry ; vi. Mary, Sep. 26, '54 ; vn. James, 
Dec. 25, '57 ; vm. Anne, Sep. 8, '60, m. Silas Pratt, '72. 

21. 35. Abner, m. Miriam Jones, Mar. 19, 1761, and had in H., i. Abigail, June 
15, 1762; ii. Milla, d. July 14, '64; in. Eli, Feb. 13, '67; iv. Jerusba, 
June 12, '69; v. Miriam, May 9, '74; vi. Abner, Esq., Dec. 28, '76. 

23. 38. Reuben, m. Lydia , and had Amos, Dec. 30, 1763. 

16. 39. Simeon, m. Elizabeth Gardner, An". 19, 1756. 

40. i. Moses, Mar. 4, 1757 ; n. Eliza., Apl. 7, '60 ; in. Charlotte, Nov. 22, '66. 



28. 41. Nathaniel, Esq., s. ^m. S. "W. of Hoi. Common, was an efficient business 
man, and a citizen of influence. He m. Persis Gibbs, of Hopk., pub., Dec. 
30, 1784, a woman of great value to the chh. and world, and had, i. Anna, 
June 28, 1786; II. Nathan, May 26. '88, r. S.boro. ; in. Asenetb, Mar. 
22, '91, d. yg.; iv. Calvin, Sep. 1, '93; v. David, Apl. 7, '96; 
vi. Nathaniel ; vn. Persis, m. and rs. on the homestead. 



13. 46. Silvanus, w. Mercy, had i. Joseph, Mar. 10, 1792 ; n. Malinda, June 7, 
'94, m. Willard Clark, of Med. ; in. Pamelia, Dec. 1, '95, and others. 

Laban Johnson? w. Penelope, had Laban, May 4, 1772, at H., who m. 
Lucy , and had Rhoena, Feb. 2, '97. 

Joseph Johnson ? w. Keziah; i. Phebe, Jan. 1, 1782; n. Jesse, Sep. 2, 
'84; in. Eleazer, Apl. 22, '87. 

Nathan Johnson? m. Hannah Leland, of S., 1778, and had at S., i. Susanna, 
Nov. 22, '78, m. David Sanger, of S., '98; n. Artemas, Nov. 18, '80, 
A. M., M. D., s. and d. at Pawtucket, without issue; in. Herman, 
Nov. 25, '85 ; iv. Nathan, Jan 21, '88; v. Herman, Nov. 22, '90, r. S. 
vi. Hannah, Sep. 4, '93; vn. Plympton, Sep. 20, '96. 



1 



ThO. Jones, was rated in Sherborn, in 1721, higher than any other 

citizen. He d. 1729, and land was drawn in his right at Doug., 1730. By 

wife Elizabeth, he had, 
6. 2. t. Jona., Dec. 13, 1701. 
9. 3. ii. Eli, Dec. 5, 1704, m. Mary , had Eli, Apl. 24, '56 ; in. Tho., 

May 27, '06, d. June 23, 1734. He bad only Tho., jun., b. 1725, m. 

1745, Mary Morse, had Phebe, Oct. 29, '45, and perished a prisoner among 

Indians; iv. Elizabeth, May 27, '11. 
15. 5. v. Aaron, Apl. 11, 13, d. July 30, '42. 



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2. 0. Jona., w. Hannah, had at H., I. Hannah, d. Sep., 1729; u.Ezekiel, May 

19, '29 ; in. Jona., July 12, '31 ; iv. Elizabeth, Oct. 1, '40. 

3. 9. Eli, ra. Marcy Underwood, Mav 15, 1729, and had i. David, Feb. 17, '31. 

n. Eli ; HI. Hannah, Aug. 6, '34, m. Benj. Ballard, of H. ; iv. Thankful, 
Apl. 6, '38, m. John Foristall; v. Miriam, June 1, '41, m. Abner John- 
son; vi. Mercy, Sep. 18, '45. 

12. Benj. ? w. Ruth , had, i. Ruth, Mar. 9, 1731-2; n. Elizabeth, Apl. 

25, '34; hi. Stephen, Dec. 4, '42; iv. Anna, June 21, '45; 
v. Elias, Mar. 17, '47-8. 



5. 15. Aaron, m. Elizabeth Bullard, Mar. 17, 1736--7, had at H., 
16. i. Jesse, June 28, '38, d. Nov. 17, '55. 
20. 17. ii. Samuel, June 15, '40; in. Elizabeth, Nov. 22, '40. 



17. 20. Samuel, w. Hannah , had Azubah, June 22, 17G2. 



1. Beilj. Kendall, was the s. of Tho. K., of Lexington, by w., Sarah 
Cheever, dg. of Rev. Tho. C, of Chelsea, and grd. s. of Tho. K., of 
Woburn, and gr. grd. s. of Francis K., of W., by w., Mary Tidd, who took 
the freeman's oath, May 26, 1647, and d. 1707, agd. ab. 87. Benj. was 
dismissed from the chh. in Lex., Sep. 26, 1734, to the chh. in S., and s. in 
the N. part of S., where Timothy K., one of his descendants, now resides. 
He served as selectman, 1768, '70, '78, and d., aged 96. He m. Keziah 
Leland, dg. of Ens. Henry L., 1733 ; and 2d, Eunice Leland, 1736, dg. of 
Dea. Timothy L., of II., and had 
i. Benj., who d. with his mother, '36 ; 
ii. Keziah, Aug. 7, '37, m. Wm. Boden, '57 ; 

in. Asenath, Mar. 29, '40, d., Oct. 6, 6, '73, m. Nathl. Holbrook, of S., '63 ; 
iv. Lydia, Nov. 26, '42, m. Micah Holbrook, of S., '76; 

4. 2. v. Benj., Mar. 18, '45, m. Keziah Twitchell, Apl. 1, '68; vr. Asaph, 
Oct. 3, '47, d. aged 15 ys. ; vn. Eunice, Apl. 28, '50, m. Saml. Bur- 
bank, of H., '73 ; vin. Rebecca, Nov. 12, '52 ; ix. Elizabeth, Aug. 23, 
'55, m. Benj. Houghton, of S., '82 ; 

8. 3. x. Timothy, Dec. 9, '57, d. Nov. 5, 1829. 

2. 4. Benj., by w , Keziah Twitchel, r. S. and Gardner; 
11. 5. i. Asaph, Mar. 23, 1769, r. Haverhill, and rs. Portland, Me. ; 

ii. Rebecca, June 2, '71, d. Oct. 31, '74; 
17. 6. in. Jona., Apl. 24, '73, r. at Gardner and Hubbardston ; 
iv. Rebecca, Oct. 17, '75, m. Hubbard Dunster, r. Gardner ; 
7. v. Martin, Sep. 8, '78, m. Prudence Kendall, r. Jamaica, Vt. ; vi. Anna, 
June 20, '81, m. Marshall Stodard, r. Hingham ; vn. Miriam, b. pr. at 
Gardner, m. Bartlett Stodard, r. G. ; vin. Keziah, b. pr. at G., m. Simon 
Stone, r. G. 



3. 8. Timothy, m. Lucy Rice, d. 1839, inherited the homestead in S., which he 

left to his only son ; 

9. i. Timothy, b. Feb. 4, 1787, m. Polly Flagg, dg. of Jona. F., of Fram., 

by w., Hepzibah Greenwood, and had 

10. i. Lucy R., Jly. 18, 1815, m. Col. Seth Hawes, of Fram. ; n. Benj., 

A. M., Oct. 15, 1817, m. Lucy Bullard, and r., a teacher, at New- 



158 KENNY, KIBBE . 

buryport; m. Mary A., Feb. 7, '20, m. Geo. Chamberlain, r. Fram ; 
iv. Frances, Aug. 3, '22, m. Adam Littlefield, r. Fram. ; v. Chs. R., 
Dec. 20, '25, r. Dover, Me. 

5. 11. Asapb, m. Eunice Case, of Haverhill; and 2d, Hanh. Batchelder, of H., 

and s. in Portland, Me. He had 

12. i. Wm., 1795, m. Eliza. Greenough, and r. Boston; 

13. ii. Benj., m. Betsey Clark, and resides in Fitchburg ; 

14. in. Asaph, m., and had a son ; iv. Mary, d. um. ; 

15. v. James, m., and s. in Ipswich ; 

vi. Timothy, d. yg. ; vn. Bathiah, m. in Me. ; 

16. vni. Daniel, s. in Danvers; ix. Geo., by 2d w., d. in Portland, a. 30.; 
x. Jane, m., and r. in P. 

6. 17. Jona., m. Mary Nichols, rs. Hubbardston, had 

18. i. Asaph, Sep. 3, 1794, m. Charity Snow, r. Alexanderville, Oh. ; 

19. ii. Hubbard, Apl. 18, '96, m. Rhoda Sawin, r. Gardner ; 

20. in. Moses, m. Balinda Gates ; 2d, Esther Bullock, of Richmond, N. H. ; 
iv. Eunice, m. Lafayette Colman, r. Gardner ; 

21. v. Orison, r., um., at G. ; 

22. vr. Edmund, m. Mary Bennett, r., a landlord, at G. ; 

23. vii. Crusoe (d.), m. Minerva Gates, r. Hub'n ; vni. Rebecca, m. David 
N. Bishop, of H. ; ix. Mary, m. Sylvester Gilson, r. Templeton ; 

x. Fanny, m. Harrison How, r. Gard. ; xi. Harrison, d. yg. 

Elisha Kendall, ? w., Ruth, had i. Samuel at S. pr., ab. 1740. 



James Kenny, w., Margt,, had Jane, Oct. 30, 1730, at H. 



1. Henry Kibbe, 1 a tailor, joined the chh. in Dorchester, 4 (9), 1639, and 
the Boston Artillery Co, 1644 ; took the freeman's oath, May 18, 1642. Rachel 
K., supposed to be his wife, d. at D., 16 (5) 1657. He was m. by Gov. 

Bellingham, 5 (9) 1657, to Grizel , by whom he had Sherebiah, bp. at 

D., 8 (10) 1659, on a thanksgiving day, and so named, " because his father 
prevailed with God by prayer for him." The father d. 10 (6) 1661, at D. 
Sherebiah, cordwainer, was of Cambridge, 1682, and " owned land on Jones 
Hill." [Bond.] " Henry Kidby " and Lewis Kidby 1 , had land assigned 
them by Boston, at Mt. Woolliston (Quincy) 1639. 

2. Edward Keyby, 1 a sawyer, had, by the authorities of Boston, John Bery 
apprenticed to him in 1645. He was of Roxbury in 1654. He had 

i. Deborah, 2 bap. at Old South chh., in Bos. ; 
ii. Mary, 2 bap. 1645 at Dorchester ; 

3. in. James, 2 bap. 1645 at D., d. 1732, m. Hannah, and had at Cambridge 

i. Mary, 3 1668 ; n. Anna, 3 1670 ; 

4. in. James 3 1674, who m. Sarah , and resided for a time at Sherborn; 

iv. Elizabeth 3 1681, who d. um., Dec. 20, 1715, at Sherborn ; 

5. iv. Elisha, 2 bap. 1645 at Dorchester ; 

6. v. Joshua, 2 probably ; vi. Elizabeth, by w. Mary, 27 (11) 1654, at Muddy 
River ; vn. Rebecca, May 1, 1657, at do. ; vni. Edward, 2 pr. who r. at 
Enfield, and Oct. 4, 1722, m. wid. Rebecca Cooley, of Springfield ; 

ix. Hannah, ? whose hus. was drowned in public service, petitioned for his 
pay, Sep. 5, 1723. 



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6. 7. Joshua,'- m. Mary Corny, at Woburn, May 24, 1688, s. in W. Sherborn, ab. 
1710, drew 103 acres in Douglas in 1715 and '30, and in 1721, was, out of 
59 citizens, rated the highest in S., except three. He d. 1731. His wife d. 
Jly. 9, 1712. They had i. Joshua,' June 2, 1712, at S., who settled at 
the S. end of the Morse meadow, in Med., was a carpenter, owned a saw-mill 
on Chicken Brook, drew land in Doug., 1730, m. Abigail .Dowse, of S., 
June 7, 1733, but had no issue. From a malformation, he could never 
articulate sounds. He d. Jan. 29, 1754. His estate, inventoried at 
£1,118, (old tenor), he gave to be equally divided to his wid. Abigail, and 
his br. Edward, [Suff. Prob.] ; 

ir. Sarah, 3 b. 1708, d. Nov. 17, 17G2, m. Henry Morse, 1725, and s. | m. E. 
of her br. Joshua, and where wid. Uriel Cutler lives, while bears were thick, 
against which she, with a blazing fire-brand, was wont to defend her swine ; 
9. in. Edward, 3 m. Abi. Morse, 1724, dg. of Jona. M., of S., who. d. about 
1792. He, with his br. Joshua, Mar. 26, 1726, bought of Sam. Bullen, for 
£250, a tract of 126 acres in Med. He s. £ m. S. E. of the upper depot, in 
II., and on the E. of Chicken Brk., 100 rods S. E. of Ellis Daniel's house, 
and owned a saw-mill 100 do. N. W., had 

i. Joshua, Apl. 20, 1731, d. Oct. 15, '32; 

ii. James, May 8, '32, d. Aug. 22, '32 j 
12. 10. in. Isaac, Aug. 12, '46, or '47, d. Mar. 1, 1834 ; 

11. iv. Edward, Oct. 27, '51, m. '67, Mary Goudy, of Hopk., rm. to Peru ; 

and 2d, to Western part of N. Y. ; v. Betty, m. , Maxwell, and 

rm. S. of Seneca Lake, N. Y. ; vi. Abigail, m. Tim. Madden ; 

vii. Lydia, m. Wm. Watkins; 

viii. A dau., m. Nathan Watkins, rm. to Genesee, pr. Naples. 

10. 12. Isaac, ra. Phebe Whitney, May 28, 1765, inherited the homestead of his 
father, lived where the W. depot is in H., and left it to his s. Isaac, who sold 
it to a R. R. Co., ab. 1849. He had i. Asa, Sep. 14, 1766; [an Asa 
(pr. another), s. at Somers, Ct., and rm. to Frankfort, Herk. Co., N. Y., m. 
Jerusha Kibbe, and had i. Asa, of Mexico, N. Y., f. of Geo. ; n. Walter, 

of Winfield, N. Y. ; in. Martin, of Galena, 111.] ; 
ii. Keziah, Mar. 28, '68; 

in. James, Nov. 16, '70, d. agd. 38, m. and s. in N. Y. ; 
iv. Eli, Mar. 25, '72 ; v. Joseph, Jly. 12, '75 ; vi. Isaac, m. Sally Bragg; 
and 2d, Keziah (Adams) Miller, rs. Hoi., has i. Sally ; n. Lyman 31., m. 
Elizabeth Kingsbury, rs. H. ; 

vn. Phebe, m. Jeremiah Hartwell, of Bos. ; viii. Joshua, s. in Boston ; 
ix. Hannah, m. David Claflin, of Bos., had David D., of B. ; 
x. Whitney, b. Jan. 5, 1791, rs. H., m. Eliz'th (Hall) Sawin. 

Walter Kibbe, a lawyer, and Gen. Amariah K., of Somers, Ct.,are supposed 
to be from the same stock ; also the Kibbies of Galway, Oppenheim and Strat- 
ford, N. Y. 

1 »i» i 

Jona. Kilton, w. Margaret, had at H., i. Jona., Feb. 6, 1756 ; n. Luke, Feb. 
4, '60; in. Mary, Dec. 10, '61; iv. Tho., Oct. 30, '63; v. Benj., Dec. 
3, '65, at S. ; vi. James, Mar. 23, '68, at S. 



ThO. Kimball, s. of Richd. K., of Nat., w., Hannah Fuller, fr. Ded.,hadatS. 
i. David, Mar. 25, 1791, m. Rebecca Pratt, fr. Me., r. and d. Til. ; 



160 KINGSBURY, KNOWLTON, LANE, LAWRENCE, LAYLAND. 

ii. Ebenezer, Sep. 3, '92, m. Eliza Bobbins, fr. Brighton, r. Cambridge ; 
»in. Abigail, Mar. 5, '94, m. Albert Ellis, r. Ashland ; iv. Catherine, Apl. 
1, '96, m. Wm. Davis, r. Milton ; v. Betsey, June 9, '98, m. John St rat ten, 
r. Nat. ; vi. Rebecca, Nov. 12, 1800, d. Aug. 1, '02 ; vn. Tho. J., pr. d. 
um. ; vin. Sally, Mar. 28, 1809, m. Malachi Babcock ; ix. Hannah Sep. 
30, 1811, m. Geo. Hooker. 



Jesse P. Kingsbury, b. Oct. 4, 1813, s. of Jesse, of Needham and grd. s. 
of Jesse K., of N., m. Mary O. Stevens, settled in S., 1847, on the ancient 
seat of the Cozzens family, has Sarah Helen, Chs. E. 

Daniel KnOWltOn, w. Abigail, had Mary, July, 1750. 

John Knowlton, m. Martha Jennings, Apl. 20, 17G9, and had at H., 

i. Martha, Apl. 16, '69. 

Nathan Knowlton, m. Patience Miller, Aug. 20, 1781, had at H., 

I. Micah, Jan. 8, 1782 ; ii. Susanna, May H, '84; in. Becca, March 21, 

'86 ; iv. Phila, May 20, '88 ; v. Sophia, Oct. 6, '96. 

Elias Knowlton, w. Elizabeth , 2d w., Lydia Fisk, m. Aug. 2, '89, had 

at H., i. Elias, May 14, 1769, m. Lydia , had i. Sally, Eeb. 26, '95 ; 

n. Lticinda, June 3, '98. 
ii. Elizabeth, Apl. 19, '76; in. Gilbert, Mar. 6, '78; 
iv. Simeon, Oct. 31, '89, by w. Lydia; v. James, June 6, '91. 

Wm. Knowlton, w. Rachel, had at S., i. Kate, Nov. 30, 1773; 
ii. Oliver, July 8, '79. 

Ephraim Lane, w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, Aug. 21, 1763, at S. 



John Lawrence, w. Susanna, had at S., i. Sarah, Oct. 21, 1698 ; tt. Mercy, 
Mar. 20, 1707 ; in. Samuel, Jan. 29, 1711-12, at Natick. 



1. Hopestill Layland, the common ancestor of the New England Lelands, 
was from Yorkshire, Eng. He landed and settled at Weymouth, probably 
as early as 1624. When the removal of Rev. Mr. Newman and the 
majority of the planters of W., to Rehoboth, occurred in 1644, he seems to have 
removed with the family of John? Holbrook, to that part of Dorchester which 
became Milton. Here his son Henry, the child of his old age, as it would seem, and 
born no doubt at Weymouth, grew up, formed the acquaintance of Nicholas Wood 
and Tho. Holbrook, both residents of the same part of Dorchester, and in company 
with them began the first settlement cf Sherborn, 1652-4. Hopestill L. is believed 
to have had daughters married to some of the first planters in Medfield and Bogis- 
tow, many of whom were from Weymouth, Braintree and Dorchester, viz., one mar- 
ried to ■ Lovell, from whom descended Hopestill and Nathaniel L., of Med., 

another, Experience, the first wife of Tho. Holbrook, of Sherborn. When upwards 
of 70 years old he seems to have removed to Bogistow to reside with his children. 
Here the patriarch slept with his fathers in 1655; "aged 75." The manner in 
which his death is recorded indicates distinction. He was one of the most ancient 



LAYLAND. 1G1 

men, if not the most, ancient, who ever settled in New England. Holliston, more 
than half of whose inhabitants are his descendants, can have his bones but little de- 
cayed with evidence of their identity, if they will give him a protected grave and 
headstone. No monumental inscription in New England but his will date back to 
1580. 

2. Henry Lay land m. Margaret Badeock, the sister of Robt. B., of Dorch., 
now Milton, and no doubt the grd. dg. of James B., who was born 158--, in Essex 
Co., England, removed with the Pilgrims to Holland and came in the ship Anne to 
Plymouth, in 1623. Henry L. was reed, to the chh. in D., 22, (3), 1653; and 
the next year came to Bogistow, as the S. E. quarter of S. was then called, and 
lived on land owned by Tho. Holbrook, for the ensuing 12 years ; working pei'haps 
still at his trade, as he continued to be styled tailor. In 1GG0, Mar. 3, he gave his 
bond for £40 to Henry Lane, of Boston, for 200 acres of land, formerly Capt. 
Keayne's, which he bought of Richard Brown, the grantee. This he discharged 
three years after, yet did not obtain a deed until 1667, when Sec'y Rawson and 
Gov. Danforth made oath to the purchase and payment. This tract included a 
meadow, still called Brown's meadow, and extended from the W. line of Parker's 
grant, which separated it from Charles R., almost or quite to Holl. line; and formed 
the nucleus of the great Leland farm. In 1666, he reed, a deed of Tho. Holbrook 
for 80 acres in three lots, which II. had previously bought of Andrew Pitcher, who 
had purchased it of Parker, the original grantee. The first lot consisted of 20 acres 
lying unto the new dwelling house of Tho. Holbrook, bounded N. by Pitcher, W. 
by Holbrook, abutting on a brook, E. [Sewell's] and on a highway TV., 2^ acres of 
the same being meadow. This includes the site of his first habitation, which was 
burnt in his absence, leaving his wife and then only child without shelter, food or 
e fleets. A 2d lot of 20 acres on a plain, bounded S. by Wood, N. by Pitcher, and 
E. and TV. by common land ; and a third lot of 39 acres was to be laid out upon the 
same plain, to include 5 acres of meadow, to be bounded precisely like the 2d lot. 
The first lot is now owned by David Daniels. He left the ' : old field " of 11 acres near 
Brush Hill, which Eleazer L. sold to his brother, Hopestill, for £16, whose descend- 
ants inherited it with his other lands, until the present century. He did not sur- 
vive to draw much of the public land, but his right being inherited, secured 
his descendants extensive tracts and most of the farms in S. and II. which they still 
occupy. 

Henry L. signed both petitions for the incorporation of S. He was chosen on a 
committee to provide a minister for S., and was associated with the selectmen " to 
grant town lots to those that were known among the inhabitants ; " and tradition has 
brought down a high character of him for piety and kindness to the Indians. He d. 
Apl. 4, 1080, a. pr. about 50, and was interred about 100 rods S. E. of his dwelling. 
His wid., Margaret, d. at her s. HopestilPs, 21, (3), 1705, a. pr. ab. 75, having 
that year conveyed her property to him for having taken care of her, and for her 
future support. They had, 

5. 3. i. Hopestill, 15, (9), 1653, at Dorchester; ri. Margaret, b. 1655, at 

Bogistow; in. Experience, 1G, (3), 1656, m. John Colburne, of Medfd., 

June 5, '74, and pr. 2d, Mr. Adams, of do. 
1 1. 4. iv. Ebenezer, 2, (11), 1657, d. June 30, 1742, at Holliston; 

v. Eleazer, 13, (5), 1660, m. Sarah ■, and d. Dec. 5, 1703, at Medfd., 

without issue. E. was a tailor, and at the ajre of 17 lived at Milton. 



5. Hopestill, Dea., occupied the homestead which his father purchased of Tho. 

Holbrook, the E. part of Brown's grant and other lands adjacent ; was rated 

for the Indian title, 1686, drew land in S., in '82, and subsequently, 166 

acres in Doug. He served 10 vears as selectman, m. Abigail Hill, Nov. 5, 

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162 LAYLAND. 

1G78, who d. Oct. 5, 1C89 ; and 2d, Patience Holbrook, Lis cousin, who d. 

Oct. 5, 1740. He d. Aug. 19, 1729. He had, 
20. 6. i. Henry, Feb. 22, 1679, d. 1732, m. Mary Morse; 
23. 7. ii. Hopestill, Aug. 4, '81, d. June 7, 1700, m. Mary Bullard ; 

in. Abigail, F(!b. 17, '83, m. John Bullard, Jan. 7, 1702. 
25. 8. iv. John, Oct. 11, '87, d. Jan. 7, 1759, m. Abigail Badcock. 
28. 9. v. Win., Dea., Feb. 11, '92, d. Mar. 18, '43, m. Mehetabel Breck. 
10. vi. Eleazer, Apl. 8, '95, d. 1717, m. Abigail Clapp, from Ded. 

32. 11. vii. Joseph, May 9, '98, m. Esther Whitney. 

33. 12. vin. Isaac, June 2, 1701, d. after 1760, m. Abigail Mason. 

34. 13. ix. Joshua, May 5, '05, d., m. Ruth Morse ; x. Margaret, Dec. 25, '08, m. 

John Carpenter of H., and was the grd. mother of Moses Pond, of W. Med. 

4. 14. Ebenezer, s. 2 m. S. W. of Sherborn common, where the late Wm. 
Leland lived ; was rated for the Indian title, 1686, selectman 4 yrs., drew 
122 acres in Doug., engaged for a time in keeping sheep on Seekonk plain, 

m. Deborah , 2d, Patience Sabine, fr. Rehoboth, who d. Juue 1, 1720, 

and 3d, Mary Hunt, fr. Sud. He resided in advanced life with his son, 
Dea. Tim. L., of H., and to him and Capt. John Goulding, were assigned, 
when the meeting house was finished, the two most honorable pews, viz., the 
2d on the right and left of the pulpit, which their descendants occupied for 
nearly 100 years. He had, i. Deborah, Aug. 16, 1679, m. Isaac Gleason. 

38. 15. ii. Ebenezer, Jan. 14, '81, d. 1746, m. Martha (Fairbank) Death. 

40. 16. in. Timothy, Dea., Feb. 22, '84, d. Apl. 1, 1748, m. Elizabeth Learned. 

17. iv. James, Capt., Sep. 22, '87, d. Feb. 13, 1768, m. Hannah Learned, 
removed to Grafton ; v. Susanna, b. '89, m. John Page, of Fram., 1712. 
vi. Patience, '95, by 2d w., m. Elkanah Haven; vn. Martha, Sep. 8, '99. 

44. 18. vin. Isaac, Apl. 19, 1702, d. prior to '41, m. Mary Hunt, fr. Sud. ; 
ix. Sybil, 1708, m. Francis Dudley, of Sutton, '32; 

18. x. Amariah, Dec. 11, 1710, m. Ursula Lovet, s. with his father in S., 
rm. and d. at Mt. Desert, Me. 



6. 20. Henry, Ens., s. in the N. part of S., where Mrs. Luther Leland rs. on a 

farm of about 500 acres, drew 228 acres in Doug., was 6 yrs. selectman and 

representative in 1726, m. Mary Morse, dg. of Jeremiah, of Medfd., who d. 

Oct. 16, '60, aged 75, and had, 
46. 21. i. Jona., Apl. 11, 1706, m. Deborah Leland; n. Mary, Sep. 13, '08, m. 

Amos Cooledge, '28 ; in. Sarah, Aug. 15, '10, d. Mar. 17, '35-6, m. Capt. 

Edward Learned ; iv. Keziah, July 9, '12, m. Benj. Kendall, Jan. 24, 

'32--3, s. where Tim. K. rs. ; v. Hephzibah, Sep. 22, '14, m. Dea. Joseph 

Brown, of H. ; vi. Thankful, July 17, '16, m. David Leland of H. ; 

vii. Anna, Mar. 26, '18, m. Aaron Morse, of Hoi. ; vin. Jeremiah, Feb. 

2, '19-20, d. June 23, '42, unm. ; ix. Ezekiel, June 11, '22, d. unm. 

x. Mercy, Feb. 6, '25, m. Nathl. Winship, of II. and S. ; 

xi. Beulah, Dec. 9, '26, m. Isaac Bullard, '46, of H. ; 
63. 22. xn. Henry, Capt., Apl. 11, '29, m. Keziah Bullard, dg. of Benj., and 2d, 

Mary Goulding. 

7. 23. Hopestill inherited the middle division of the Leland farm, r. S. of Sewell's 

Meadow, drew 95 acres in Doug., engaged in the rearing of hemp and the 
manufacturing of ropes and halters which he annually carried to Rhode 
Island and exchanged for wool ; m. Mary Bullard, who d. May 8, 1758. He 
had, i. Daniel, Apl. 24, 1702, d. yg. ; 



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II. Abigail, May 3, '04, m. Ebenezcr Badcoek. 
68. 24. in. Daniel, Oct. 14, '07, m. Mary Death; iv. Ruth, Sep. 12, '12, ra. 
Samuel Perry ; v. Rachel, May 28, '15, m. Henry Death ; vi. Esther, 
June 2, '17, m. Phineaa Adams? of Med., '40; vn. Mary, May 7, 
'20, m. Joseph Marshall ; 
vin. Silence, May 31, '22, m. Daniel Eames; 
ix. Experience, June 21, '25, m. Jonas Fairbanks, of Med. ; 
x. Sarah, Aug. 19, '28, m. John Carpenter, of II. 

8. 25. John, s. in the N. part of II., and after public wp. was established in EL, 
became clerk and read the hymns, drew 75 acres in Doug., m. Abigail Bad- 
cock, who d. June 28, 1740; and 2d, Sarah (Morse) Bullard, wid. of Isaac, 
July 12, '44, and had, 

81. 26. i. Samuel, May 3, 1711, m. Dinah White ; 

84. 27. ir. John, jun., June 10, '13, m. Lydia Leland^; 
in. Abigail, Mar. 28, '16, m. Isaac Johnson. 



9. 28. Win., Dea., s. in the S. W. part of S., where Lemuel L. rs., was 8 years 

selectman, town clerk 5 yrs., and representative in 1735, drew 57 acres in 

Doug., m. Mehetabel Breck, and had, 
100. 29. i. Efeazer, Dec. 18, 1717, m. Mary Lovet; 

ii. Asa, Nov. 1, '19, d. Nov. 26, '30. 
103. 30. in. Wm., Jan. 3, '25, d. Jan. 30, '62, m. Jemima Daniels, who m. 2d, 

Caleb Greenwood. 
105. 31. iv. Simeon, Aug. 21, '30, d. '90, m. Hannah Partridge, Mar. 7, '50-1, 

and 2d, Martha Bullard, Dec. G, '56. 

v. Abigail, Apl. 7, '34, d. Dec. 4, '36 ; vi. Abigail, Sep. 24, '37, d. unm. 

aired 70. 



11. 32. Joseph, drew 17 acres at Doug., in 1730, was selectman in '37 and '39, 

m. Esther Thurston, who m. 2d, Bichardson, and lived to be aged. 

Ho lived in S. where S. and H. and Ashland now corner, and gave his 
extensive farm to his grd. son, James Whitney. He had, i. Patience, May 
26, 1722, m. James Whitney; n. Esther, July 31, '28, m. Benj. Whitney, 
of S. ; in. Abigail, 1734, ra. Ezekiel Wood, of Uxb.; 
iv. Bhoda, Dec. 31, '35, d. '57, unm. 



12. 33. Isaac, received of his father Hopestill, in 1722, a deed of one half of the 

buildings and farm of 400 acres, on which he lived, including the ancient 
homestead. He s. E. of the road to E. Med., had by w., Abigail Mason, 
only a dg. that survived, viz., i. Patience, b. Dec. 28, 1745, m. Peter Bul- 
lard, May 11, 1762, and d. Feb. 27, '63, leaving no issue, and the father 
having no descendants, gave his place to his brother Joshua's s., Col. Joshua. 

13. 34. Joshua inherited half of his father Ilopestill's farm, and lived on the W. 

side of the road, and S. of the new S. burying ground. He had by 
w. Ruth Morse, dg. of James M., by w. Buth Sawin, and grd. dg. of Capt. 
Joseph M. 
45. 35. i. Hopestill, Sep. 29, 1733, m. Mary Russell ; n. Ruth, Dec. 27, '35, 
ra. Timothy Daniels ; in. Rhoda, '36, d. yg. ; iv. Joshua, Col. and Judge, 
b. Aug. '41, m. Waitstill Greenwood, 2d, Phebe Howard, was selectman in 
S. 9 years, and a man of rare energy in the cause of freedom. He received 
from his uncle Isaac, the E. part of the old homestead, and on removing to 



164 LAYLAND. 

Eaton, N. Y., sold it to Joseph Cooledge, who conveyed it to Tim. Daniels, 
whose son David now occupies it, including the site of Henry Leland's first 
house ; v. Joseph, Sep. 5, '44, m. Abigail Howard, inherited the S. part of his 
father's half of his grd. father's farm, had, 

i. Achsah, Oct. 13, 1771, in. Simeon Whitney, 2d, Asa Leland ; 

ii. Joshua, Feb. 27, '77, d. 1827, m. Rachel Phillips, of Med., who 

survives, and had Joseph and Jedediah, who occupy this part of the 

consecrated homestead, and also Henry, rs. S. unm. 

15. 38. Ebenezer, settled on the W. part of his father's farm, and pr. planted the 

magnificent elms now 25 feet in girth, whose age may be reckoned from his 
marriage in 1708, to ; Mrs. Martha (Fairbanks) Death. He drew 97 acres 
in Doug., and had, i. Deborah, Apl. 25, 1710, d. Jan. 1, '84, m. Jona. 
Leland, of S. 
119. 39. ii. Caleb, Capt # Nov. 1712, d. Aug. 25, '80, m. Judith Morse. 
in. Lydia, Aug. 20, '16, m. John Leland, of H. 

16. 40. Timothy, Dea., was a man of great worth, and for his day, of considerable 

distinction. Prior to the division of the town ho served S. as constable and 
selectman. He was 13 years selectman of H., and above 20 years town 
treasurer, and often moderator of town meetings. He settled 1 m. N. of the 
common, where Wm. Loveringrs., opened his house for public worship on the 
Sabbath, while the first meeting house in H. was being erected, and here the 
chh. of H. was organized Nov. 20, 1728. He was chosen Dea., Dec. 25, 
1728, in which office he served 20 years. He drew 88 acres in Doug., and 
gave each of his sons spacious farms. He m. Elizabeth Learned, dg. of Dea. 
Benoni L., of S., and had, 
123. 41. I. David, June 23, 1711, m. Thankful Leland; n. Lois, Sep. 2, 1714, 
in. Asa Fisk, of H. ; in. Eunice, July 14, '17, m. Benj. Kendall, of S. ; 
iv. Elizabeth, Nov. 22, '19, d. Dec. 11, '57, unm. ; 

v. Jemima, Aug. 22, '22, m. Joseph Underwood, and 2d, Tim. Rockwood ; 
130. 42. vi. Timothy, Nov. 20, '25, d. May 22, '86; vn. Asaph, Lt., Feb. 7, 
'30, d. Aug. 7, 1812, a member of the chh. and a most affectionate and 
conscientious man. He m. Beulah Littlefield, and had, 

I. Beulah, May 17, '54, d. 1837, m. Luke Johnson, of Leominster ; 
ii. Anna, July 9, '57, d. May 5, 1838, m. James R. Park, and was 
the mother of Col. Joseph Park, of H. ; in. Milte, July 2, '61, d. 
Mar. 15, 1821, m. Abner Morse, Esq., of Medway, and was the amiable 
and honored mother of the author; iv. Asaph, Dea., Dec. 4, '03, d. 
Feb. 7, 1827, one of the excellent of the earth, was chosen Dea., Feb. 
27, 1816, of the chh. in H. He was the father of Mrs. Cynthia 
Hawcs, Mrs. James Cutler, Mr. Amory, (d.), and Capt. Amos (J. Le- 
land, who inherits the homestead. 

18. 44. Isaac, s. in the N. E. part of H., now Ashland, m. Mary Hunt, who m. 
2d, Gershom Ernes, '41, and had at H., i. Mary, June 13, 1723, m. Sara'l 
Lovering, Nov. 8, '39; n. Patience, Nov. 18, '24, m. James Greenwood, 
Nov. 13, '40; in. Beulah, Aug. 21, '26 ; iv. Keziah, '28, m. John Shef- 
field ; v. Isaac, Aug. 29, '30, r. H. and Nat., was slain in battle, near 
Ticonderoga ; vi. Abiah, July 20, '32 ; vn. Hannah. 

35. 45. Hopcstill, Lt., inherited the N. W. part of bis father's half of his grand 
father, Dea. Hopestill's farm, built where Zibeon Hooker rs., m. Mary Russell, 
who d. 1820, aged 92, and had, i. Sarah, Sep. 13, 1759, m. Benj. Hawes, 



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of Leominster; ir. Amos, Capt,, '62, m. Keziah Cole, inherited bis father's 
place, and d. without issue; in. Hopestill, Aug. 19, 'Go, d. Sep. 6, 1854, 
in. Betsey Tay, s. on the place of her father, Doct. Jona. T., originally James 
Morse's, and had, Mary A., Horace, Sylvia, Alfred A., Amos, m. Nancy 
Brown, and inherits the same place ; iv. Mary, '68, r. unm. at Nat. or 
Fram. ; v. Buth, '77, m. Jonas Phelps, r. Leominster. 

21. 46. Jona. inherited the E. part of his father's farm, and lived where Daniel 
Leland, jun., rs., and had, by w. Deborah Leland, i. Keziah, May 1, 1732, 
m. Eleazer Holbrook ; n. Jona., Sep. 2G, '34, d. Feb. 21, '35; in. Lydia, 
Feb. IS, '36, m. Abel Holbrook ; iv. Martha, Nov. 18, '38, in. Jona. Frost ; 

40. 47. v. Micah. Aug. 19, '41, m. Betty Mason ; 2d, Anna Pratt ; VI. Jeremiah, 
Mar. 3, '44, d. Oct. 28, '51 ; 

Gl. 48. vii. Jona., Apl. 4, '47, d. Dec, 1827, m. Mary Leland; vni. Deborah, 
Feb. 9, '51, m. Dea. Aaron Leland. 

47. 49. Micah, s. upon the homestead of his grandfather, was a selectman, 1782 
and '84, m. Betty Mason ; and 2d, Anna Pratt, and had i. Jeremiah, June 
11, 1764, m. Abigail Haven, and had I. Martin, Mar. 8, '93; n. Walter, 

Feb. 27, '96, and rm. to Sullivan, N. Y. ; 
ii. Patty, May 2, '67, d. '71 ; 

in. Betty, Oct. 12, '70 ; iv. Patty, May 15, '72, d. Sep. 22, '78 ; 
v. Anna, Apl. 30, '74, d. Sep. 22, '78 ; vi. Persis.Nov._3, '70, d. Sep. 21, '78; 

,"> 1. 51. vn. Micah, Dea., Jly. 9, '79, d. Sep., 1847, m. Lois Leland ; 
nil. Anna, Dec. 11, '81, m. Draper Smith, rs. Dover ; 

59. 52. ix. Calvin, Dea., Jly. 9, '84, m. Nabby Perry, rs. Natick ; 

x. Luther, 1786, inherited the homestead, m. Bebecca Babcock ; 2d, 
Daphne Stone, and d. 1842, leaving a wid., but no children, who survived ; 
xi. Levi, 1789, m. Belief Sawin, had Ezra, Edwd., Levi. 

51. 54. Micah, Dea., s. at TV. Sherborn on S. part of the farm first occupied by 

Joseph Morse 2d ; was a very public spirited and amiable man, 8 years 

selectman, and representative in 1832, and had, by w. Lois Leland, 

i. Orlando, Jan. 7, 1807, m. Ursula Cutler, rs. N. H., has Isabella C, 

Lewis A. ; 
ii. Augustine, Nov. 9, '08, grad. at B. U., '34, d. Oct. 18, '36, at S. C, 
m. Lucy Ann Brown, and had Lucy Ann ; 
in. Micah, Jan. 17, '11, m. Tryphena Bennett, rs. Fram. ; 
iv. Emlyn, Apl. 29, '13, m. Irene Knowlton, rs. homestead; 
v. Harrison, Feb. 27, '15, m. Eunice S. Hancock, rs. a teacher at Newton ; 
vi. Harriet, Jly. 6, '17, m. Alonzo Whipple, rs. S.boro'. 

52. 59. Calvin, Dea., w., Abigail Perry, rs. Natick, had 

I. Calvin, 1817, m. Mary E. Wolcott, r. N. ; 

ir. Joseph P., 1812, d. '34, a mem. of Amherst Col., a young man of great 

promise; in. Mary P., 1815, m. Benj. W. Fletcher, and d. 1844, 

leaving Jos. P. 

48. 61. Jona., s. where Daniel L., jun., rs., served 3 years as selectman, and 
had, by w. Mary Leland, i. Daniel, 1769, d. yg. ; 
ii. Julia, Jan. 25, '72, m. Obadiah Burrage, of Dover; in. Lydia, d. '78; 
iv. Lydia, 1774, m. Joel Tainter, of Framingham ; 
v. Mary, '7G, m. Samuel Nichols, r. S.boro'. ; 
vi. Persis, '78, m. Simon Mann, of Dover; 
62. vn. Daniel, jun., Aug. 18, 'S3, m. Bachel Partridge, fr. Med., served 11 



166 LAYLAND. 

ys. as selectman, is the father of Mrs. Lyman Whitney, of S., Mrs. Nathl. 
Clark, and of Samuel N. Leland, who rs. with him, and of Mrs. Henry 
Partridge, of Medfd. ; 
viii. Lucinda, Mar. 20, '86, m. Calvin Richards, of Dover. 

22. 63. Henry, Opt., in. Keziah Bullard, who d. 1787 ; and 2d, Mary Goulding, 

' was selectman, 1766, r. S., and had i. Mary, 1753, m. Samuel Leland, of S. ; 

ii. Jeremiah, '54, m. Elizabeth Dean ; in. Keziah, '58, m. Asa Bullard, of S. ; 

iv. Henry, '61, d. June 26, 1834, in. Sarah Phipps, had Walter, '85, rs. 

Sangerville, Me. ; Keziah, '87 ; Lowell, '90 ; Harry, '92 ; Jedediah 

P., '95 ; Sarah, '97 ; Lucy K., 1801 ; Mary, '04 ; 

v. Miriam, '64, d. '64; vi. James, '65, killed by a cart wheel ; 

vii. Benj., '67, m. Phebe Gates, r. Reading, Vt. ; viii. Jonas, m. Olive Cole. 

24. 68. Daniel, inherited his father's place, S. W. of Sewell's meadow, m. Mary 

Death, dg. of John D., Esq., by w , Waitstill , and had 

i. Rachel, Feb. 26, 1737-8, d. Jly. 16, 1826, m. Cpt. Moses Adams, of Med. ; 
n. Miriam, Sep. 1, '40, ra. Hon. Daniel Whitney, of S. ; 
in. Daniel, Jan. 8, '42, d. Dec. 14, 1835, m. Sibbillah Eames; was a 
soldier of the Revolution, r. Hoi., had 

i. Rhoda, Feb. 27, '68 ; n. Mary, '69, d. um ; 

in. Sibbel, '71, m. Simeon Thompson, of Peru ; 2d, David Tuttle ; 

iv. Moses, '73, m. Betsey Shattuck, '96, r. H. and Peru, had 

i. Leonard, '97, d. um. ; n. Ede, '99 ; in. Ezra, 1801 ; 
iv. Mary, '03 ; v. Carissa, '05 ; VI. Emeline, '07 ; vn. Moses, 
'09, r. Hinsdale ; 
v. Daniel, '75, d. Jly. 20, 1822, had at H. i. Lucy, May 16, '98, 
m. Tho. J. Morse, Esq., of S. ; n. Wm., '99; Alice, 1801 
Barney, '04 ; Daniel J., '06 ; Lemuel, '08 ; Eleanor, '09 
Edward, '13 ; Fanny, '15 ; x. Hephzibah, '18 ; xr. Hannah J., '20 
vi. Lavina, '78, d. 1807, um. ; 
vn. Lemuel, June 6, '80, m. Clarissa Perry, r. H. ; 
viii. Louisa, '82, m. Daniel Stowell, rm. to 111. ; 
ix. John, '87, m. Sylvia Leland, dg. of Oliver L., r. Pa. 
iv. Adam, Apl. 10, 1745, d. Mar. 10, 1827, m. Prudence Leland, dg. of 
Caleb L., by w., Judith Morse, s. on the old road to Nat., 100 rods E. of the 
Plain Burying-ground, was selectman, '86, '89, and had i. Betsey, 1771, 
m. Col. Moses Babcock ; and 2d, Hez.Rockwood, of Upton ; H. Rebecca, 
'73, m. James Dowse, of S. ; in. Judith, '75, m. Alpheus Mason, of 
Med. ; iv. Hannah, '78, d. '78 ; v. Hannah, '81, m. Wm. Perry, of Nat. ; 
vi. Leonard, m. Chloe Rice, had Lorinda, Lewis A., Lester ; 
v. Hephzibah, Mar. 12, 1747, m. Rev. John Leland, of Peru ; 
vi. Mary, Oct. 10, 1748, m. Jona. Leland, of S. ; 

vn. Aaron, Dea., Jly. 18, 1751, d. 1846, m. Deborah Leland, who d. 1787 ; 
and 2d, Keturah Perry, who d. 1834, inherited the W. half of his father's 
farm, was of an inventive and enterprising genius, and through his long life, 
generally and highly esteemed. He desired no official distinction, yet served 
the public much in a private capacity, and especially the chh. He had 

i. Lewis, Apl. 24, 1775, m. Patty Smith, s. in New York, had 

i. Aaron Augustus; n. Lewis; in. Emeline; iv. Francis; 

v. Martha ; vi. Sophrona ; vn. Mary B. ; vin. Chs. ; 

ix. Louisa A. ; x. Herman X. ; 

it. Aaron, Dec. 6, 1776,'d. '92 ; in. Lydia, Jly. 19, '79, m. Hon. John 



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Leland, of Amherst ; iv. Larkin,Dec. 15, '82, d. yg. ; v. Deborah, Nov. 
15, '85, m. Otis Drury of Le Roy, N. Y. ; VI. Joseph Perry, Cpt., Nov. 3, 
'89, m. Trypkena Richardson, and had i. Aaron L., A. M., M. D., of 

Detroit; n. Francis, A. M., M. D.,rs. Milford ; ill. Abijah Ii., m. 

Mary Ann Sawyer, fr. Shrewsbury, rs. with his parents, and has 

Lewis A. and Mercy D. ; n. Eliza T., m. Rev. John H. M. 

Leland, from Amherst ; 
vni. Moses, Jly. 18, 1751, inherited the E. half of his father's farm, lived 
on the most affectionate and intimate terms with his twin brother, Aaron, his 
next door neighbor, ever manifesting the strictest regard to moral virtue. He 
m. Mercy Twitchell, and had i. Eli, 1775. d. 1847, m. Rebecca Sanger, and 

had i. Dexter, A. M., Apl. 6, 1779, r. S. C. ; n. Sally, Apl. 1, 

1808, m. John Cozzens ; and 2d, Henry Leland ; in. Joanna D.. 

Oct. 30, 1811, m. Albert P. Ware; iv. Artemas J., Oct. 13, 

'18, m. Eliza Snelling, r. S. ; 
n. Betsey, 1777, m. Simeon Mason, of Med; in. Lois, '79, m.Dca. 
Micah Leland; iv. Daniel, Col., '81, m. Elizabeth Heard, who d. 1847 ; 
and 2d, Mary (Greenbatch) Felt, inherited his father's farm ; served 
8 ys. as selectman, and 4 ys. as town clerk and treasurer, and has long 
been conspicuous in managing the municipal and religious interests of the 
town. He had 

i. Augustus H., Feb. 15, 1807, d '07 ; n. Augustus H., Nov. 

18, '09, m. Lois Whitney, has Geo. A., and Abba M. ; 

in. Elizabeth H., June 18, '10, d. 1842, m. Rev. Edmd. Dowse ; 

iv. Frederick, Aug. 30, '13, m. Mary Ann Rattelle, inherits the 

homestead, and has Emma R, and Almeda S. ; 

v. Daniel, Jly. 17, '15, m. Julia Ann Bigelow, r. Cambridge; 

vi. Samuel R., May 12, '17, m. Mary Draper, r. Worcester ; 

VII. Mercy, Mar. 18, '19, m. Newell Clark, r. Framingham ; 

vni. Sophona, Nov. 25, '22, a teacher of music, rs. Framingham ; 
v. Moses, 1784, m. Patience Babcock, r. Templeton, which town he 
has repeatedly represented in the G. C. He had i. Leander, 1808, m. 

Elizth. S. Wellington, r. T. ; II. Wm. E., '11, m. Sarah Follet, r. T. ; 

in. Larkin M., '11, m. Aurelia M. Sawyer; 2d, Eliza Ann Gale ; 

and r. Augusta, Me.; IV. Moses, '13, m. Sarah Brooks, r. T. ; 

v. Chs., '15, m. Julia F. Sawyer, r. T. ; VI. Rhoda W., '17, m. 

Elisha Mathews, r. T. ; vn. Henry, '20, d. '22 ; vni. Henry, '23, 

d. urn., 1846 ; ix. Frederick, '26 ; x. Geo. Handel, '28 ; 
vr. Lemuel, Apl. 4, '86, s. as a gunsmith inS., was eminently skilful in 
the business, fair and honorable in all his dealings ; true and kind in all 
his relations in life. He served 11 ys. as selectman, and his ability as a 
juror, was highly valued. He m. 1st, Polly Clark, who d. Nov. 8,1814 ; 

and 2d, Chloe Morse, Nov. 30, 1815, and had i. Wm. C, Nov. 4, 

1810, d. 1815; ii. Edwin, Feb. 8, '13, d. Jly. 20, 1852, m. 

Emily Morse ; in. Wm., Jly. 30, '17, m. Ama Eames, rs. on the 

ancient Babcock place ; iv. Chs. G., Nov. 15, '20 ; v. Abner Morse, 

Oct. 16, '22, r. Providence ; VI. Lemuel Nelson, Apl. 30, '25 ; vn. 

Francis, Nov. 14, '27; vni. Erastus, Apl. 18, '30, m. Ellen Pratt, 

rs. S. ; ix. Moses F., Mar. 27, '35, rs. New York ; 
vn. Nancy, m. Alpheus Clark, Esq., of S. 

26. 81. Samuel, m. Dinah White, who d. 1792, a. 78, and had at H. 
i. Mathias, Dec. 25, 1737, d. Jan. 5, '37-8 ; 



168 L A y L A N D . 

88. 82. n. Asa, Jan. 28, '39, d. Sep. 22, 1822, m. Lois Marshall; 

ill. Abigail, Jly. '41, m. John Partridge; 
92. 83. it. Abner, Feb. 16, '44, d. 1819, m. Hannah Thayer, fr. Mendon ; 

v. Dinah, Aug. 10, '46; vi. Anna, Oct. 22, '48; vn. Ruth, m. Theoder 

Rider, Oct. 7, '84. 

27. 84. John, m. Lydia Leland, inherited the homestead in the N. part of H., and 
had i. Ebenezer, Feb. 5, 1738, d. 1806, at Hinsdale, m. Abigail Cutler; 
ii. Deborah, Mar. 6, '39, m. Drury Fairbanks ; in. John, Cpt. and Rev., 
Jan. 12, '45, d. 1826, at Peru, m. Hepbzibah Leland, of S. ; iv. Caleb, 
Cpt., Dec. 8, '47, d. Jan. 16, 1824, r. Leominster; v. Lydia, Mar. 28, '50, 
d. 1816, in. Asa Perry, of H., r. Fitchburg ; vi. Martha, Jly. 8, '53, m. 
Henry Leland, of Warwick. 

82. 88. Asa, w . ois Marshall, who d. Nov. 3, 1815, a. 72, had at II., 

i. Aaron, Rev., and Lt. Gov. of Vt., b. May 28, 1761, m. 1783, Joanna 
Alden, dg. of Rev. Noah Alden, of Bell., r. Chester, Vt. ; n. Abigail, m. 
Cyrus Cumstock, r. Wrenth. ; in. Miriam, Apl. 4, '68, m. Nathan Whiting, 
r. C; iv. Asa, Feb. 15, '70, d. 1832, m. Araa Norcross, had 

i. Moses Rev., 1796 ; n. Ama, d. '97 ; in. Asa, '98 ; iv. Allen ; 

v. Cephas R., Esq.; vi. Marshall R. Rev., A. M. ; vn. Wm. H. ; 

vin. Dexter, M. D. ; 
v. Nathan, Cpt., Jly. 26, 78, m. Polly Pratt, fr. S. ; and 2d, Ruth Parker, 

and had i. Aharon, 1805 ; n. Alden, 1807, m. Anna Temple, r. H., 

and has three times represented her in the Gen. Court ; in. Laurin, '11; 

iv. Betsey, '13 ; v. Lydia P. ; vi. Nathan C, and vn. John, '22, by 

2d w. ; vin. Leander, '26 ; ix. Erastus, '29 ; x. Polly L., '32 ; 

vi. Elizabeth, Jly. 3, '80, m. Church; 2d, Wiswall, r. Milfd. ; 

vn. Alexander, Jan. 30, '84, ra. Hepbzibah Harding ; vin. Simeon, Jly. 
16, '86, d. Feb. 15, 1817, m. SyviaPond, and r. Chester, Vt. 

83. 92. Abner, by w., Hannah Thayer, had i. Elijah, 1775, d. 1827, m. Nancy 

Wakefield, r. Mendon, N. Y., had Amos, Nov. 20, '97 ; 
ii. Amasa, Oct. 25, '76, d. Apl. 19, 1838, m. Rebecca Adams ; 
in. Jonathan, '79, m. Fanny Perry ; iv. Luther, Rev., A. M., Oct. 30, 
'81, s. at Derby, Vt. ; v. Eliab, Oct. 30, '81, in. Perly Adams, r. Milfd. ; 
vi. Samuel, Dea., '84, rn. Achsa Mason, 180G, r. Ashld. ; vn. Abner, and 
vin. Adam, '89. 



29. 100. Eleazer, by w., Mary Lovet, had at S. 

101. i. Asa, Nov. 11, 1743; n. Hannah, May 19, '46, d. Oct. 7, '50; 
in. Mehetabel, Jly. 2, '48, d. Oct, 13, '56 ; 

102. iv. Eleazer, May 22, '50 ; v. Mary, '52, d. Oct. 18, '56; 
vi. Margaret, '55, d. Oct. 22, '56 ; vn. Mary, '57; 

vin. Mehetabel, '60, d. 1S46, m. Benj. Ware. 

30. 103. Wm., settled where Barach Leland rs., in the S. W. part of S., and had 

by w., Jemima Daniels, i. Jemima, May 17, 1751, m. Onissimus Cole; 
ii. Deborah, '53, m. Tim. Sparrowk ; 
113. 104. in. Baruck, '56, d. Dec. 8, 1833, m. Sarah Prentice; 2d, Julia Fisk ; 
iv. Rhoda, '58, m. Eli Twitchcll ; v. Oliver, Aug. 6, '60, m. Abigail Perry, 

had I. Henry, 1787, d. yg. ; n. Sylvia, m. John Leland ; in. Chs. ; 

iv. Geo. ; v. Amos, Mar. 29, '98, in H. ; VI. Ambrose. 



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31. 105. Simon, m. Hanh. Partridge, 1751; 2d, Martha Bullard, '50, and had 
116. 10G. i. Samuel, 1752, m. Mary Leland j n. Hannah, '58, m. Nathan 
Johnson ; lit. Simeon, Esq., '50, m. Rhoda Hill, r. Gardener; iv. Martha, 
'02, m. Henry Ary, has Henry, rs. Catskill ; 

v. Patience, '03, d. 'G5; vi. Wm., '05, d. Oct. 17, 1853, xa. Mercy Ellis, 
fr. Med., r. whore his gr. grd. uncle, Ebenezer L., settled, and had 

i. Simon, 1794, d. ab. 1835, m. Cynthia Daniels, had Jesse D. ; 

ii. Henry, d. 1843, m. Bullard, had Henry ; ni.Wm., um., r. S.; 

iv. Charles, m. Sarah How, has Chs. H. and Geo. W., r. S. 



104. 113. Baruck, m. Sarah Prentice, who d. Jly. 5,1812 ; and 2d, Julia (Daniel) 
Fisk, who d. Oct. 20, 1833, s. where Baruck L. rs. i. Wm., 1779, d. 
Feb. 21, 1812, um. ; n. Lemuel, 17S3, m. Mary Ware, had 

i. Mehetabel ; it. China W., m. Ira Harris, had JElttn A., m. Wm. 
Drummond ; in. Wm. W., m. Clary H. I.: i1 irdson, and has 

Ada Z., Frank R., Willie E. ; 
iv. Benj. W., m. Sarah G. Town, has Eloise A. ; 
v. Lemuel Prentice, m. Sarah Anna Allen, had 
i. Edgar P. (d.) ; n. Ida Estelle, rs. S. ; 
in. Walter, 1787, d. May 20, 1831, m. Hannah Johnson, inherited the 
homestead, and had Baruck, m. Charlotte Bullen, rs. on the homestead in 
the S. W. part of S. , has Charlotte Josephine, Mary Emma, Walter W. 

100. 110. Samuel, by w., Mary Leland, had in S. i. Hannah, June 23,1776, 
d. '77; ii. Hannah, '78, m. Elisha Rockwood ; in. James, '80, m. Mary 
Daniels, has i. James H., m. Justina M. Freeman, rs. on the homestead ; 
iv. Polly, Jly. 19, '84, m. Adin Partridge ; v. Samuel, May 27, '80, m. 
Sibbeller School, has Sylva Ann, and rs. on the homestead ; 
vi. Clarissa, Nov. 30, '87, d. yg., fr. a scald. 

33. 119. Caleb, Capt., was the proprietor of 700 acres of the best land in S., 
resided, in middle life, where the late Dea. Micah Leland did, served ys. 
as selectman, and was active in church matters ; m. Dec. 24, 1741, Judith 
Morse, who d. Oct. 20, 1774 ; and 2d, Mary Harding, fr. Medfd., had 
i. Caleb, Nov. 5, 1742, d. '46 ; n. John, Aug. 27, '44, d. Sep. 29, '45 ; 
in. Anne, Jly. 0, '40, m. John Sanger ; iv. Prudence, Oct. 12, '48, m. 
Adam Leland; v. Rebecca, June 10, '51, m. Ephm. Dana; vi. Caleb, 
May 28, '53, d. '76, in the army, at Ticonderoga, m. Elizabeth Hill, and had 

Caleb, d. yg. ; 
vn. Judith, Apl. 14, '55, m. Jacob Sparrowk ; vin. Hannah, May 17, 
'57, m. John Ware ; ix. John, June 1, '60, m. Caroline Jones, inherited 
the place where his grandfather lived, and had 

i Caleb, 1784, who left no chd. ; 
122. 121. ii. John, Esq., 1784, m. Sally Bickford ; 

in. Carissa, '88, m. Lemuel Cooledge. 

121. 122. John, Esq., inherited the homestead, served 5 years as selectman, and 
represented S. in 1843-4, and had, by w., Sally Bickford, dg. of Capt. 
James B., of S., i. Caroline, 1810, d. 1814; n. Clarissa, 1813, d. 1832; 
hi. John Jones, 1814, m. Deborah Dowse (d.), and has only Sarah, and 

is engaged as principal of a High School ; 
iv. Caroline J., 1818, m. Brigham of W.boro'. 

41. 123. David, settled g m. E. of Holliston Common, in. Thankful Leland, his 



170 LEARNED. 

2d cousin, and had I. Brazilla, 1740, pr. d. yg. » n. Mary, May 4, '42 ; 
124. in. David, Apl. 10, '44, d. 1820, m. Hanh. Harding, inherited his 

father's place, and had 

i. Brazilla, Nov. 24, 1767, m. Lucy Wood, and had Mary, Sally, 

and Lucy M. ; 
ii. Abijah, Jan. 1, '69, d. '71; in. Kcziah, Jan. 1, '72, m. Haziah 
Bullard, of H. ; iv. Hannah, Sep. 2, '74, d. ura. ; v. Thankful, 
May 5, '77, d. Sep. 22, 1840; vi. Unice, Jly. 2, '79; vn. Mercy, 
Aug. 1, '81 ; viii. David, Aug. 12, '82, d. Aug. 18, 1838, m. Phcbe 
Despeau, and had Henry, of S., d. 1847; 

ix. Sally, Feb. 22, '85, d. 1806, um. ; x. Jemima, Jan. 7, '88, rs. 
um. at the homestead ; xi. Henry, Apl. 22, '91, m. Ede Bowker. rs. Hopk. 

iv. Mary, Mar. 2, 1747, m. Hopest ill Eames ; v. Henry, Sep. 3, '50, d. 

Sep. 9, 1826, at Warwick, m. Martha Leland, and had Perley, Apl 2, 72, 
d. Jly. 15, 1847, at W., m. Hanh. Harding, of Med, '94; 
135. 129. vi. Jeremiah, Aug. 22, '52, d. Oct. 5, 1808, m. Mary Harding; 

vn. Thankful, Feb. 27, '55, m. Wm. Freeland, '78, r. Hopk. ; 

viii. Sarah, Aug. 17, '57, m. Cpt. Aaron Eames. 

42. 130. Timothy, settled on the W. half of his father's farm, * m. W. of Wm. 
Lovering's, in H., m. Hannah Twitchell, Jan. 5, 1748--9, dg. of Eph. T., 
who d. Jan. 2, 1764 ; and 2d, Abigail How, who d. Jan. 12, '66 ; and 3d, 
Beulah Foster, who d. '97, and had at H. i. Hannah, Apl. 4, 1750 ; 
n. Timothy, Jan. 7, '52, m. Mercy Johnson, and had at H., 

i. Nathan, 1780, m. Merribah Gay, had Susan and Eliza A. ; 

ii. James, Apl. 25, '83, d. Jly. 16, 1754, m. Betsey Hill, had 

i. Mary, m. Edwd. C. Parker, has James E. and Joseph S. ; and 
n. James, m. Fran's S. Thompson, and d. Feb. 23, '54, w. o. issue ; 

in. Mary, '86, m. Daniels Hill ; 
in. Eli, Aug. 13, '54, m. Mehetabel Miller, r. Upton ; iv. Bathsheba, 
Sep. 2, '56, d. um., 1823 ; v. James, June 18, '59, d. Dec. 15, '61 ; 
vi. Jemima, Jan. 5, '62, m. Nathan Fisk, '86 ; vn. Jotham, Jan. 27, 
'71, d. Oct 2, '77, by 3d w. ; viii. Nathan, Jly. 6, '73, d. Oct. 8, '77; 
ix. Mary, Jly. 18, '75, d. Oct. 5, '77. 

129. 135. Jeremiah, settled a few rods S. of Holl. Central Depot, m. Mary Hard- 
ing, 1775; and 2d, Mrs. Sarah Hawes, fr. Franklin, and had 
i. Thankful, 1777, (a. T. m. Benjamin Bullard, of H. and Pax;) 
ii. Polly, '78, m. Perry Daniels, r. Hopk. ; in. Betsey, '80, m. Jona. 
Holbrook, of S. ; iv. Unice, '84, m. N. Richardson, of Hopk. ; v. Herman, 
June 22, '98, m. Sarah Barret, and had Granville T. and Alethina M., and 

inherits the homestead ; 
vi. Alethina, 1800, d yg. ; vn. Almira, 1801, m. Lovet Walker, rs. H. 



1. Benoni Learned, Dea., (s. of Isaac L., of Woburn, by w. Mary 
Stearns, and grd. s. of Wm. L., of Chs. town, free 1034, and member of 
chh., 1632, and much respected for his sound judgment) s. in S., where the 
late Doct. Wythe r., had lots assigned him 1679, was rated, 1686, for the 
Indian title, served as committee to divide common lands ; was 12 years 
selectman^ and one year representative, drew 138 acres in Doug. He was 
born Dec. 4, 1656, and d. Apl. 10, 1738. He m. Mary Fanning, of Water- 
town, June 18, 1680, who d. Oct. 14, '88, dg. of Tho. F., by wf. Elizabeth 
Daniel, dg. of Robert D., of Cambridge; and 2d, Sarah More, of Sud., 



LINCOLN, LITTLEFIELD. 171 

who was reed, to the chh. '90, and d. Jan. 25, 1736-7. He m. 3d, Sarah 

, who survived him. He had, i. Tho., Feb. 11, 1681-2, who d. at 

Watertown, 1729 ; n. Benj., Aug. 15, 1685, d. 1712, m. Hannah Badeock, 
1710, no issue; in. Mary, Oct. 10, '88, m. Wm. Bond ; iv. Hannah, Sep. 
10, '90, m. James Leland ; v. Sarah, May 31, '92, m. Isaac Kendall ; 
vi. Elizabeth, Apl. 28, '94, m. Dea. Timothy Leland ; mi. John, May 2, 
'96, drew 33 acres in Doug., 1730, and no further reported ; 
vin. Tabitha, Mar. 19, '97-8, m. Jona. Dewing, of S. ; ix. Abigail, July 
4, 1700, m. John Woodbury, of Sud. ; 
x. Thankful, Aug. 1, '02, m. Joseph Hovey. of Mansfield. 
6. 5. xi. Edward, Capt., Dec. 2, '05, m. Sarah Leland ; 

xii. Bathsheba, May 3, '08, m. Josiah Hendee, of Ashford. 

5. 6. Edward, Capt., inherited the homestead, was 3 years selectman, m. 1st, 
Sarah Leland, dg. of Ens. Henry L., who d. May 17, '36, 2d, Abigail 
More, of Sud., '37, who d. Sep. 22, '45 ; and 3d, Sarah (Fuller), Pratt, 
of Newton, Aug. 25, '48, who d. Jan. 11, '83. He d. Sep. 9, 1775, had 
at S., r. Mary, Sep. 18, 1729, m. Abijah Stratton ; n. Sarah, Jan. 18, 
'31-2, m. Jedediah Phipps ; in. Daniel, Apl. 30, '34, d. Oct. 11, '52; 
iv. John, Mar. 30, '38, d. Nov. 10, 1832, m. Mary White, r. Swansea, 
N. IL, and Alleghany Co., N. Y., (Bond) ; v. Abigail, Sep. 28, '39, d. 
yg. ; vr. Benj., July 23, '41, s. at Dublin, m. Apl. 11, '65, Elizabeth 
Wilson, of S. ; vn. Abigail, Sep. 22, '45, reed, to the chh., '64, and rrn. to 
Dublin. 

11.9. vin. Ewd., June 18, '49, by 2d w., m. Sarah Pratt, May 13, '73, d. at Stur- 
bridge ; ix. Esther, May 26, 1751, m. Edward West Perry ; x. Jona., Apl. 
21, '53, pr. d. yg. ; xi. Daniel, Mar. 16, '55, pr. d. yg. ; xn. Elizabeth, 
bap., Dec. 26, '56, m. Samuel Clark, of S. ; 
xin Anna, b. Jan. 14. '59, m. Aaron Greenwood, of S. ; 

13. 10. xiv. Samuel, Dee. 12, '60, d. Aug. 7, 1838, m. Abigail Fisk ; 
xv. Patty, Oct. 7, '62, m. Daniel Breck ; 
xvi. Amos, Apl. 3, '64, d. unm. at Havanna. 

9. 11. Edward, jun., by w. Sarah Pratt, had at S., i. Sarah, July 5, 1776, m. 
Calvin Perry, of S. and Oxfd. ; n. Abigail, m. Liberty Bullard, of Med. 
in. Polly, m. Seth Harding, 2d, Comfort Walker, both of Med. ; 
iv. Gershom, m. Nabby , and s. in Natick. 

10. 13. Samuel, s. in the S. part of S., and by w. Abigail Fisk, had, i. Nabby, 
Feb. 2, 1790 ; n. Amanda, Mar. 11, '92; in. Myra, Jan. 20, '96 ; 
iv. Sally, Jan. 30, 1802 ; v. Ede, Nov. 11, '06. 



Asa Lincoln, w. Esther Miller, had at IL, i. Ira, Nov. 15, 1794. 



Littlefield. Several of this name appear upon our early records, without indi- 
cations of any connexion. Francis and Tho. were rated at Dover, N. H., 
1648. Edward Littlefield was of Exeter, 1651, and Edmond and Caleb 
were of Braintree, 1691. 



1. John Littlefield was an early settler of Dedham, and ran. to Wrentham, 
where he sold a house lot, Apl., 1675. His wife Mary was reed, to the chh. 



172 L1TTLEFELD. 

in Ded., 19, (6), 166G, and d. at W., June 13, 1674. They had at D., 
i. Experience, 7, (10), 1659; n. John, Oct. 5, 1664. 

4. 3. in. Ebenezer, Oct. 13, 1669, d. Apl. 9, 1727. 

3. 4. Ebenezer, w. Lydia, d. Oct. 12, 1717, r. Newton, had, i. Jemima, Aug. 

19, 1697; ii. Ezra, Mar. '99, d. Aug. 15, 1703. 
9. 5. in. Ebenezer, May 2, 1701, d. 1798. 
12. 6. iv. Pelatiab, Oct. 12, '03; v. Lydia, Feb. 15, '00; vi. Jerusha, Apl. 15, 

'08, m. John Taylor, '30, at Newton ; vn. Praisever, Mar. 5, '10. 
15. 8. vin. Ephraim, Nov. 21, '12, d. 1778; ix. Susanna, Nov. 21, '12; 
x. Sybil, Nov. 1, '14, m. James Cheney, '40, at Newton. 

5. 9. Ebenezer, m. Abiah Morse, dg. of Benoni M., of Medfd., by w. Rachel 

Bullard, m. at Roxb., Sep. 28, 1702, s. in H., and became a prominent 
citizen. He had, i. Simeon, Oct. 29, 1728, m. Dinah Marshall, '56 ; 
ii. Beulah, Oct. 31, '31, d. '98, m. Lt. Asaph Leland. 
19.? 11. in. John, May 25, '37. 

6. 12. Pelatiab, m. Alice Hobbs, at Ipswich, Apl. 4, 1732. He had at H., 

i. Ebenezer, June 23, 1735. 
22. 13. ii. Jeremiah, July 13, '36; in. Lydia, Aug. 14, '37; iv. Elizabeth, 
Mar. 16, '33-4; v. Huldah, Mar. 28, '39; vi. Alice, Sep. 6, '41; 
vn. Ebenezer, Capt., Mar. 16, '47, d. '98, m. 1st, Rebecca Ware, Dec, 
1785, 2d, Alice Ware of Hopk, '93, and had, Warren, June 29, '93 ; 
vin. Elizabeth, Oct. 12, '52. 

8. 15. Ephraim, m. Sarah Bullard, May 3, 1735, dg. of Isaac, of H. 

i. Elizabeth, Jan. 30, 1735-6 ; n. Sarah, Feb. 15, '39, m. James Perry; 
in. Eleazer, Mar. 6, '41, d. yg. ; iv. Sibbilla, May 15, '43, m. Asa Rock- 
wood ; v. Elizabeth, Apl. 6, '47, m. Thaddeus Lovering, of H. 
25. 16. vi. Ephraim, Esq., May 1, '49, d. 1828 ; vn. Isaac, s. in Milford, m. Eliza- 
beth Lovering, Dec. 16, '73, had Ephraim, of Milfd., who m. Rhoda Par- 
tridge, of Bell., Mar. 5, 1805 ; vin. Asa, 1757, m. Mary Adams, of H. ; 
ix. Anne, m. Pelatiab Gibbs. 



11.? 19. John, m. Tabitha Adams, June 27, 1754, r. H., had, i. Jotham, June 
26, 1761, m. Chloe Mann, Oct. 4, '99; n. Tabitha, Dec. 15, '63, m. Hn. 
Perley Fairbanks, r. Wardsbury, Vt. ; in. Ruth, d. Oct. 26, 1835, m. Calvin 
Cutler, of Med., May 8, '88 ; iv. John, Jan. 22, '69, m. Bathsheba Clark, 
Aug. '93, had i. Clark, Aug. 21, '94, rs. H. ; n. Emra, Mar. 13, '96; 

in. Joanna, May 5, '97. 
v. Sally, ra. Jotham Adams, of Med ; vi. Polly, Oct. 29, '74, m. Malachi 
Bullard, Esq., of Med ; vn. Hannah. 

13. 22. Jeremiah, m. Elizabeth Barbour, Jan. 14, 1786, and 2d, Elizabeth 

Everett, Apl. 20, '80, who rm. to Hopk. He purchased of Wheaton, 

a farm on the S. side of Winthrop's Lake, on the E. side of the Pond Road, 
which he long occupied, and which was afterwards sold to Samuel Cleaveland, 
and had in Med., i. Pelatiab, Sep. 18, '68, r. Hopk., m. Abigail Crooks, 
Feb. 28, '93 ; n. Amos, Feb. 9, '70 ; in. Sarah, Mar. 12, '72 ; iv. Abigail, 
July 12, '74 ; v. Levina, Mar. 14, '76 ; vi. Elizabeth, Apl. 16, '78. 

16. 25. Ephraim, Esq., a mirthful man and citizen of influence, inherited the 
ancient homestead on the Milford Road, 2 ms. S. W. of the common in H., 



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kept a tavern, served the town in various offices, and tbe Co. of Middlesex 
27 years as dep. sheriff. He m. Sarah Grant, pr. dg. of Win, Gr., of H., 
and had, i. Jerusha, in. Aaron Bullard, of Fram. ; II. Elial, who succeeded 
his father in the service of IL, in. Sophia Mellon, and has a family, 
in. Loammi, long a teacher, in. Beulah Harding, and two other ladies, rs. on 
or near the homestead ; iv. Sally, in. John Eames, jun., of Fram. 



ReV. Samuel Lock, the 4th pastor of the chh. in S., was from Lancaster, 
(see Book of the Locks, a very labored and available work, by John Good- 
win Lock) grad. Harv. Col., ITT).), studied divinity with Rev. Mr. Harring- 
ton, D. D., ofLan., wasord. Nov. 7, '50, inaugurated Pres. ofH. C, March 21, 
'70, resigned the presidency, Dec. 1, '73 ; returned to S., opened a classical 
school, which was patronized by the best families in Boston and vicinity ; 
transferred his relation from the chh. in Cambridge to the chh. in Med field, 
d. in an " apoplectic fit," or rather from the rupture of a blood vessel, by 
running, Jan. 5, 1778, aged 47. During his ministry in S., he was 
very recluse and studious, and he left no monuments of remarkable suc- 
cess as a preacher or pastor. But after his return, he laid aside the prudence 
which had marked his previous course, in relation to resistance, and became 
a good whig, and co-operated in urging his fellow citizens to fight for inde- 
pendence. He m. Mary Porter, Jan. 2, '60, dg. of Rev. Samuel P., his 
predecessor in S., who d. as his wid., Feb. 1, 1788, a. 50. They had, 
I. Samuel, Jan. 22, '61, d. Aug. 31, '88, was a physician at S., m. Mary 
Cowden, had i. Hannah, m. Sawyer ; n. Charlotte, m. John Whitcomb ; 

in. Keziah Bullard, '87, m. Jona. Haskell; iv. Eunice Newell, '87, 

d. yg. 
ii. Mary, Jan. 23, '63, d. single, at S., 1706, aged 33 ; 
in. John, Oct. 10, '65, d. unm., 1800, at N. Hampton, a dissipated man. 



1. Robert IiOVerain, presumed to have been the common ancestor of 
the N. Engd. Loverings, and pr. grd. son of Win. L., of Aldham, Suffolk 
Co., Eng., m. Allis Craft, at Roxb., Jan. 3, 1704--5, who was b. 1678, and 
d. at the house of her grd. son, Joseph L., in H., ab. 1784, in her 105th 
year, and " in her 5th widowhood, having m. 2d, Ephm. Lyon, July 4, 1723, 
at Roxb. ; and 3d, Mr. John Greenwood, of Newton, July 24, 1720; and 
4th, Mr. Shedd ; and 5th, Mr. Winchester. She survived to see several of 
her gr. gr. grd. children, to whom she gave mementos." 
Their children, born at Roxb., were, i. Elizabeth, May 10, 1708, m. John 
Eaton, 1720 ; n. Robert, Sep. 26, 1710, m. Rebecca Gardner, 1735 ; 
in. Wm., Mar. 1, 1713. 
6. 4. iv. Samuel, Dec. 5, 1715, when his father r. in Boston. 
15. 5. v. Joseph, b. pr. in Boston, and perhaps others. 

4. 6. Samuel Lovering, m. Mary Leland, Nov. 8, 1730, dg. of Isaac L , of H., 
by w. Mary Hunt, and b. June 13, 1723, and had, 

8. 7. i. Samuel, Aug. 13, 1741 ; n. Mary, Mar. 13, '44. 
27. 8. in. Jesse, Mar. 27, '4G ; iv. Abigail, Oct. 30, '48, m. Tho. Carr, '68. 
20. 9. v. Joseph, Dec. 10, '50. 
19. 10. vr. Isaac, June 10, '53 ; vtt. Henry, Mar. 9, '58; vm. Rufus, July 7, '64. 

213. Samuel, in. Phebe Smith, Apl. 7, '6:5, had at IL, 



174 MACCANE, MADDEN, MAN, MA R S II . 

19. 14. i. Isaac, Aug. 20, 17G3, m. Martha Tamerlain, '85 ; n. Anna, Mar. 7, 
'65; in. Samuel, Nov. 15, '67; iv. David, May 22, '70 ; • 
v. John, Oct. 11, '72; vi. Aaron, May 7, '75. 

5. 15. Josepb, m. Hannah , 2d, Mercy , had at H., i. Mary, June 10, 

1739, d. June 22, '39 ; n. Mary, Jan. 7, '42 ; m. Elizabeth, Oct. 23, 
'50 ; iv. Mercy, May 19, '58 ; v. Josepb, Apl. 26, '60 ; a Jo. d. at Bos., 
June 13, 1848, in his 90th year?; vi. Silvanus, Dec. 18, '61 ; 
vii. Ehoda, June 10, '65. 

17. Craft Lovering, (pr. son of Wra., No. 3,) w. Unis , had at H., 

i. Sarah, Sep. 13, 1765 ; n. Elias, June 2, '68. 

10. 19. Isaac, by w. Martha Tamerlain, had at H., Henry, Oct. 3, 1789. 

9. 20. Joseph, w. Keziah, had at H., Jonas, Feb. 10, 1775. His grd. mother, 
Winchester, d. at his house. 



21. Thaddeus Lovering, (pr. son of Wm., No. 3,) w. Elizabeth , had at 

H., i. Thaddeus, July 28, '66, s in Medway, and d. ab. 1852 ; n. Anne, 
Oct. 13, '70; in. Amos, June 6, '72, s. in Med., and was the father of 
Warren L., Esq., A. M., of M. ; iv. Wm., Jan. 16, '75, rs. in II.. 
v. Gilbert, May 16, '87. 

26. Daniel Lovering? w. Lydia , had Lawson. 

27. Jesse Lovering, m. Mercy Jennings, Apl. 30, 1772, and had at H-, 
i. Jesse, Mar. 11, '73 ; ir. Levi, Dec. 22, '76; in. Lawson, Aug. 15, '78. 
iv. Marcy, Mar. 1, '81. 



James MaCCane, w., Margaret, had John, Mar. 2, 1733--4, at H. 



Michael Madden, w. , Mary, had David, Jly. 14, 1763, at H. 



James Man, w , Abigail, had i. Mary, Jan. 13, 1744--5, at H. 




Alexander Marsh, pr. grd. a. of Lt. Alexr. M., who d. at Braintrec, Mar. 
7, 1698, a. ab. 70, came fr. B. ab. 1750, s. on Winthrop's Grant, on the 
N. side of Winthrop's Lake, in H., had, i. Jerusha, who m. Simeon 
Newton, of H. ; 

II. Amariah, m. Lois Fisk. and had, i. Seneca, Jly. 14, '69 ; 
ii. Martin, Apl. 27, '71; in. Amariah, May 30, '73; 
iv. Betsey, m. Mr. Peck, of Mend. ; v. Sylvia, lives single ; vi. John, 
d. yg. ; vn. Nancy, d. um., a. 21 ; vin. Lois, m. Isaac Wilkinson, 
of Pawtucket, and had Nancy and Mary, one of whom m. Rev. Mr. 
Fezzendon, fr. Sandwich, and rs. in P. 
in. Esek, Dea., inherited the homestead, was naturally of a very facetious 
turn of mind, industrious, frugal, cautious and non-committal, much devoted 
to reading, and well informed on general subjects. He was chosen Dea., 
June 3, 1793, and d. at a very advanced age, having served as Dea., ab. 40 



M A R S II , M A ii S II ALL, M A .SON. 1 75 

ys. He m. Sophia Adams, of Medfield, dg. of Henry A., by w., Jemima 
Morse, and grd. dg. of the excellent Prudence Fearie, and had in H., 

i. Esek, who s. at Charlton ; 

ii. Amelia Sophia, Mar. 10, 1776; in. Lucinda, Dec. 2G, '78; 

iv. Alexander, Jan. 3, '82 ; v. diaries, Oct. 30, '85 ; vi. Elizabeth, 

Aug. 15, '92; vn. Amos, and pr. others, not recorded in H. ; 
iv. Reuben, the father of Mrs. Calvin Sparrowk, of S., who rru. and d. near 

Black River, New York. 

Joseph Marsh, w. Sarah, had at S., i. Kezia, Sep. 3, 1720 ; n. Seth, Jan. 
18, '22-3. 



1. ThO. Marshall, Dea. (see Barry), m. Esther , in Newton ; and 

2d, Abigail, wid. of Jona. Cutler, 1762; served as selectman of H. 18 
ys., as Dea. 3S ys., and d. Apl. 3, 1766, a. 75, had 
7. 2. I. Tho., who in. Beriah Grant, at H., '44, and d. in Temple, N. H. ; 
13. 3. n. Joseph, m. Mary Leland ; in. Ebenezer, Sep. 18, 1721, m. Mehetabcl 
Haven, '48 ; iv. John, Nov. 21, 1723, at H. ; v. Dinah, Dec. 26, '25 ; 
vi. Ezra, Sep. 1, '29, d. May 7, '32 ; vn. Nahum. Oct. 3, '32; Har. Col., 
'55, m. Martha Lord, and d. at Somersworth, N. H. 



2. 7. Tho. Marshall, m. Bariah Grant, Apl. 19, 1744 ; and 2d, Abigail Cobb, 

Sjp. 12, '54; and 3d, Marv , in II., and had, i. Keziah, Mar 2, 

'44-5 ; ii. Tho., Jan. 24, '46 ; in. Aaron, Nov. 8, '47 ; iv. David, Dec. 
13, '50 ; v. Jona., Oct. 26, '52 ; vi. Jona., Jan. 24, '57, by w. Mary. 

3. 13. Joseph, m. Mary Leland, of S., Feb. 2, 1736-7. and had at H., i. Esther, 

Aug. 3, 1738; ii. Ezra, June 30, '40; in. Ichabod, Aug. 10, '42; 
iv. Joseph. This family removed to Milford. 

17. Ebenezer ? m. Elizabeth Jones, Jan. 15, 1729-30, i. Abigail, Jly. 26, 
'34, d. Oct. 12, '36 ; n. Dinah, Aug. 7, '37, m. Simeon Littlefield, '56 ; 
in. Elizabeth, Aug. 20, '42. 



18. Benj. Marshall, fr. Marblehead, m. Sibbilla Johnson, Sep. 28, 1756, and 
had in H., i. Elizabeth, Oct. 20, 176- ; n. Sarah, Apl. 17, '63, m. Amariah 
Force ; in. Mary, Oct. 10, '65 ; iv. Annis, Feb. 12, '68 ; v. Sibbel, Feb. 
15, '70; vi. Moses, Dec. 15, '75. 



5. 20. John, w., Mary, i. Rebecca, Jan. 18, 1749--50; n. Farnsworth, Mar. 2, '52. 



1. Benj. MaSOn, w., Martha, s. at Dublin, 1763, had at S., i. Thaddeus, 
Jly. 4, 1746 ; n. Abigail, Apl. 8, 1752 ; in. Benj., May 28, '60. 

4. Moses Mason, pr. s. of Benj., from Dover, w., Lydia (pr. Thayer). He 
removed to Walpole, N. II., had at S., i. Mary, Mar. 22, 17G0 ; II. Hannah, 
May 4, '62 ; in. Betty, Jly. 18, '64. 

5. Moses Mason, w., Olive, had at S., i. Gregory, Sep. 12, 1784; 
n. Henry, Feb. 14, '87. 

8. Abner Mason, who purchased in S. (now in Med.), a part of the original 



176 MAVERICK, MAXWELL, MELLEN, MERKIFIELD. 

Bulked farm of Opt. Benj. B., about 177<S, was b. Apl. 2G, 1740, the 
youngest son of Eben. M., of Medfield, by w., Dorotha Morse, (b. 1695), 

and the grd. son of Ebenr. M., of M., by w., Hannah . He m. Phebe 

Harding, pr. dg. of Simon H., of Med., and had, i. Alpheus, Nov. 27, 
3 772 ; ir. Simon Harding; in. Olive, Dec. 24, 76, at Med. ; iv. Persis, 
Mar. 9, 1779, m. Joseph Daniels, May 29, 1799 ; v. Walter, Nov. G, '81 ; 
vi. Horatio, Jan. 4, '84 ; vn. Abner, Apl. 24, '8G ; 



James Maverick, w., Mary, had Sarah, Aug. 13, 1718, at S. 



Alexander Maxwell, w., Elizabeth, had at S., I. Sarah, Apl. 4, 1722 ; 
ii. Anne, Jan. 14, '24-5 ; in. Elizabeth, Nov. 18, '28; iv. Robert, May 
25, '31, m. Marcy Travis, Dec. 6, '53, and had Rebecca, Aug. 1, '54, who m. 

Jona. Knowlton, Mar. 4, '73 ; 
v. Rachel, May 4, '33. 



G. Joseph Mellen, Lt., m. Mary Parker, May 12, 1763, at H., i. Hannah, 

Au^. 23, 'G4; n. Wm., Jly. 11, '66, m. Lydia , and had Joseph, Jly. 

10, '93 ; Deborah, Oct. 26, '96 ; Mariah. Oct. 23, '98 ; 
in. Henry, Dec. 23, '69 ; iv. Mary, May 2, '74 ; v. Sophia, May 9, '79 ; 
vi. Joseph, Mar. 2, '86; vn. Joanna, Mar. 2, '86. 

9. Daniel Mellen, w., Hannah, had, i. Hannah, Mar. 5, 1751, at H. ; 
15. 10. ii. James, May 1, '53. 

11. Henry Mellen, w., Abigail, had Dexter, Aug. 2, 1792, at H. 

12. Robert Mellen, m.fSarah Holbrook, Nov. 19, 1701, and had at H., 

i. Joel, Apl. 2, 1764 ; n. John, Feb. 23, '66 ; m. Sarah, Jan. 27, '68. 

10. 15. James Mellen, Esq., was a man of solid sense and personal dignity, 
represented H. 5 ys. ; was T. clerk 7 ys., and selectman 4 ys. ; m. 
Deborah Rockwood; 2d, Lydia Marshall, May 29, '77. i. Timothy, Apl. 
29, 1780 ; n. Elizabeth, Apl. 29, '80, m. Martin Cutler ; in. Deborah, 
Apl. 19, '85 ; iv. James, Apl. 23, '89. 

18. John Mellen, Col., m. Mary Bullard, Apl. 15, 1790, had in H., I. Ezoa, 
Oct. 5, '90 ; ii. Sarah, Jly. 24, '92 ; in. Mary, June 18, '95 ; iv. John, Jan. 
26, '99. 



1. Asaph Merrifleld, w. Mercy, I. Arnold Jly. 25, 1778 ; n. Lewis, 
Sep. 3, '80 ; in. Sarah, Sep. 28, '82. 

4. Timothy Merrifield, w., Mercy, had at S., i. Caroline, Dec. 10, 1775; 
ii. Chloe, Oct. 8, '77 ; in. Alpheus, Nov. 12, '79. 

6. Joseph Mcrriheld, m. Hanh. Hill, Sep. 15, 1736, had in H., 
i. Hannah, Mar. 16, 1737 ; n. Aaron, Oct. 28, '38, m. Elizth. Robinson, 

fr. Mend., and had Abner, Dec. 13, '66 ; 
in. Joseph, Jan. 1, '40-1 ; iv. Abigail, June 9, '44; v. Sarah, May 1, 
'46 ; vi. Lydia, Jan. 3, '47-8 ; vn. John, Aug. 13, '49 ; 



MESSENGER, METCALF, MILLER, MILLINS, MILLS, MOOR. 177 

10. John MerrifielJ, w., Molly. , had at H., I. Marcus, Nov. 6, 1781; 

II. Jemima, May 8, '84 ; in. Preston, June 29, '86 ; iv. Julia, May 24, 
1793; v. Jemima, Sep. 10, 1804; vi. Parker, Dec. 6, 180G ; vn. John, 
Sep. 13, 1808 ; via. Joseph, Nov. 8, 1809. 



1. Samuel Messenger, a descendant of Rev. Henry M., H. Col., 1717, 
the 2d minister of Wrenth., and originally fir. Boston, came fir. W. to H., m. 
Katherine Brown, June 23, 1757, s. on the Milford road in the W. of H., and 
had, i. Joel, May 26, 1760 ; n. Julitta, May 9, '62, m. Barak Bullard, 

Apl. 24, '80 ; in. Henry, Dec. 17, '65, m. Polly , had i. Ripletj, 

June 1, '99; II. James, Sep. 11, '96; 
iv. Joseph, Jan. 23, '67 ; v. Laban, Oct. 2, '69 ; vi. Samuel, Jly. 25, 
'72, who inherited the homestead; vn. Roswell, Rev., A. M., Mar. 9, '75, 
ord. at York, Me., and early became blind, published a vol. on Resignation ; 
\ iit. Charles, Jan. 18, '78, a carpenter, and man of intelligence, d. um. 



John Metcalf, w., Tamer , had at H., i. Ezra, Mar. 15. 1747 ; 

n. Eli, Mar. 19, '49-50. 

Mathew Metcalf, w., Deborah Bullard, had Fisher, Mar. 8, 1768, at H., 
and r. Hopk. 

Jacob Miller, Maj., born in Holland, came in his youth to New England, s. 
1st where Warren Miller rs., in H., and 2d, on the Milford road, } m. W. 
of the upper depot, became a officer in the army of the Revolution, and had 
the command of the castle after the evacuation of Boston. He. m. Jerusha 

, and had, besides others, I. Jesse, 'Sep. 20, 1755 ; n. Jemima, m. 

Seth Lincoln, fir. Western, '79; in. Lydia, d. um. at H., at a great age; 
iv. Esther, Oct. 7, '67 ; v. Obadiah, Oct. 9, '72, who inherited the home- 
stead in H., m. Miriam, and had Warren, Feb. 15, '97. 



1. ThO. MillinS, w., Elizabeth, had at S., i. Tho., Aug. 12, 1693; 
ii. Lydia, April 12, 1695. 

3. Simon Millins, b. Sep. 25, 1665, the son of Simon, of Winessimit, d. Aug. 
30, 1717, (see Barry), had at S., i. Simon, May 16, 1690 ; 
ii. Henry, Aug. 12, '91 ; in. Mary, June 4, '94. 



John Mills, w., Keziah , had at S., i. Abigail, Apl. 1, 1766 ; n. Betty, 

Jan. 10, '68 ; in. Ede, Apl. 24, '74. 



ThO. Moor, w., Catherine , had atS., i. Sarah, June 29, 1738; 

ii. Martha, Aug. 9, '39; in. Deborah, Mar. 15, '40-1; 
iv. Francis, Mar. 3, '42-3 ; v. Tho., Feb. 15, '44-5. 
op. 



178 MOUSE. 

1. Daniel Morse, s- of Samuel, of Ded. and Mefd., ab. 165G, purchased 
in the E. part of S. 800 acres of Simon Bradstreet, the grantee, and imme- 
diately settled upon it, where Leonard Morse rs. This part of S. has ever con- 
tinued to be called the Farm. It originally included the meadow E of the 
common. He was evidently a man of rank ; and acted as leader in the en- 
terprise of adding a new town to the colony. In all public meetings and 
elections in S. precedence was uniformly yielded to him as long as he lived. 
He had by wife Lydia Fisher, 

i. Obadiah, Dea., 8, (6), 1639, was the first town clerk and rep., and 
schoolmaster in S., and d. without issue, r. Farm ; 
7. 3. ii. Daniel, 31, (11,) 1640, d. Sep. 29, 1702, m. Elizabeth Barbour; 

10. 4. in. Jona., Lt., 8, (1), '43, d. Aug. 30, 1727, m. Mary Barbour; 

iv. Lydia, bap. 1645, m. Ephm. Wight, of Medfd. ; v. Bethia, 24, (1), 
'48, m. John Perry ; vi. Mary, 7mo., '50, m. Edwd. West, s. where Harry 
Bullard rs., and d. without issue, Nov. 10, 173G, leaving her estate to 
Edwd. West Perry ; 
vn. Bathsheba, 20, (5), '53, d. Jan. 4, 1736--7, m. Benj Fisk, of Medfd. ; 

14. 5. vni. Nath'l, Dea., 20, (11), '56-7, d. Oct. 17, 1728, m. Mary ; 

18. 6. ix. Samuel, 12, (3), '61, d. Mar. 2, 1704, in. Deborah . 



3. 7. Daniel, inherited land E. of the farm Pond, and had, i. Elizabeth, Aug., 
1670, pr.d. yg. ; 

21. 8. ii. Daniel, July 10, '72, d. Apl. 4, 1719, m. Susanna Holbrook ; 

in. Esther, May 21, '74 ; iv. Elizabeth, Oct. 29, '77, m. Kichard Sanger, 
1697 ; v. John, Apl. 27, '79, d. Feb. 17, 1718, leaving his property to his 
brothers ; 

24. 9. vi. Noah, Apl. 20, '81, d. 1818, m. Mary Johnson; vn. Margaret, Sep. 
30, '83, m. Ezra Clark, of Medfd. ; vni. Hannah, Dec. 15, '85, m. Arthur 
Clark, s. where Nelly C. rs. ; ix. Mary, Jan. 23, '87, was drowned in 
Mary's Pond, 30 rods E. of Leonard Morse's house ; x. Sarah, June 5, '89, 
m. John Robinson, r. Weston ; xi. David, Dec. 10, '92, d. yg. 



4. 10. Jona., s. on the N. side of Farm Pond, where the Public House now is, had, 
26. 11. i. Jona., July 11, 1G67, m. Jane Whitney ; ii. Mary, Aug. 70; 

in. Nathan, Jan. 3, '72, d. Feb. 5, 1718, unm., giving his estate to his 
father ; 
28. 12. iv. Samuel, Aug. 10, '76, m. Bathia Holbrook; v. Lydia, May 9, '82, 
m. David Stanford ; vi. Elizabeth, Dec. 10, '84, d. Jan. 19, 1700 ; 
13. vn. Ebenezer, Sep. 26, '89, m. Rachel, was warned out of Attleboro', 1730; 



5. 14. Nathaniel, Dea., settled on the Plain where Elijah Leland rs., m. Mary 
, and had, 

32. 15. i. Nathaniel, 1682, d. May 23, 1756, m. Mary Lovet; n. Joseph, 1683, 

d. 1759, pr. unm. ; in. Benj., 1684, pr. d. yg. ; 

33. 16. iv. Aaron, Mar. 5, '85-6, d. Feb. 14, 1749-50, m. Abigail Dunton; 

v. Mary, Apl. 2, '87, m. Wm. Johnson ; vi. Rachel, Apl. 2, '87, m. Joseph 
Hartshorn, of Ded. ; vn. Ruth, Oct. 21, '88, m. Ephm. Bullen; 
vni. Dorotha, 1695, m. Ebenr. Mason, of Medfd. ; 
17. ix. Obadiah, 1698, d. July 21, 1776, rm. to Walpole. 



6. 18. Samuel, inherited the homestead at the farm, had, i. Samuel, June 4, 
1687, d. Apl. 5, 1736, m. Mary Cook, of Watertown, sold, Apl. 19, 1729, 



MOUSE 



ny 



to Dea., Jona Russell, that part of the farm on which John Russell resides, 
and removed to Needham ; 
36. 20. ii. Eleazer, Oct. 22, '88, d. Feb. 20, 1764, m. Abigail Clapp, fr. Ded. ; 
in. Miriam, June 30, 1700, m. Benj. Bullard, and 6 other dgs., who m. out 
of S. or d. yg. 

8. 21. Daniel, inherited his uncle Obadiah's share of the farm, and by w. Susanna 

Holbrook, had, i. Susanna, Aug. 14, 1696 ; it. Bathia, do., do., d. 1740, 
unm. ; in. Daniel, Nov. 22, '99, d. 1734, at Walpole ; 
41. 23. iv. Obadiah, Aug. 15, 1704, d. 1753, m. Mercy Walker; 
v. Patience, Nov. 19, 1707 ; vi. Ann, May 2, '10, d. yg. 

9. 24. Noah, inherited his father's part of the farm, and by w., Mary Johnson, 

had, i. Hephzibah, 1708 ; n. Experience, '10, m. Joseph Morse, r. Sturb. ; 
25. in. Cyprian, 1712, rm. to Killingly and to Stafford, and 5 others who d. yg. 

11. 20. Jona., s. N. W. of the farm pond, was so devoted to fishing that the town, 

in derision, voted him the privilege of fishing there constantly. He after- 
wards r. at the Plain. He had, i. Abigail, 1695 ; 
ii. Isaac, jun., Mar. 27, '98, pr. d. unm. ; 
48. 27. in. Paul, Feb. 14, 1700-1, m. Sarah Sheffield ; iv. Jane, '03 ; 
v. Eunice, '06, m. Joseph I'artridge, r. H. and Bell. ; 
\ i. Abi, '10-11, m. Edward Kibby. 

12. 28. Samuel, s. on the N. side of the farm road, | m. E. of a brook, where Mr. 

Webb rs., and left his place to his son Andrew, after whom it passed out of 
the name. He m. Bathiah Holbrook, and had i. Edmond, 1795, m. Rachel 
Sheffield, r. Mendon ; II. Margaret, '99, m. Richard Grookin ; n^. Elizth. 
in. Andrew, Oct. 23, 1713, m. 3 wives, and had only Andrew, who rs. in 
Med. ; iv. Abijah, '18, m. Lydia Fairbanks, rm. to TJxb. ; v. Nathan, '20, 
m. Mary Lawrence, r. U. and Gray, Me. ; vi. Mary, '25, m. Tho. Jones ; 
vii. Jona., '29, called the builder, r. N. of Little Pond, and rm. to Uxb., 
m. 3 wives and d. without issue. 

15. 32. Nathaniel, s. in Milford as a cooper, gave in his will £1, 6s. 8d. to pro- 

vide utensils for the Lord's Table, had by w. Mary Lovet, i. Joanna, m. 
Peter Norcross ; n. Mary, m. Eleazer Wight, but no son that had issue. 

16. 33. Aaron, (Plain), m. 1729-30, Abigail Dunten, s. ^m. S. W. of Holl. 

Common, where Eli Phipps rs. prior to 1722-3, had, i. Nathl., Apl. 6, 1731, 
said to have entered the army ; n. Abigail, May 19, '34, m. Samuel Pike ; 
in. Aaron, Mar. 10, '39, d. 1835, at Warwick, and 1 or 2 more dgs. 

20. 36. Eleazer, inherited the N. E. quarter of the farm, including the ancient 
homestead, m. Abigail Clapp, who d. Mar. 10, '52, and 2d, Mary Clark, 
Oct. 11, '53, had, 

51. 37. i. Benj., 1720, m. Sarah Clark, '52, his 2d cousin. 

53. 38. ii. Eleazer, '22, Dec. 26, '53 ; 

57. 59. in. Joshua, '24, d. Apl. 1, 1787, inherited the N. part of his father's 
farm, and built where the late Hezekiah Morse r. ; 
iv. Abigail, '27, m. Tho. Sawin ; v. Moses, '29, d. '54, unm. ; 
vi. David, '31, d. '92, inherited the E. third of do.; vn. Jesse, '34, 
inherited the ancient homestead ; via. Keziah, '36, m. Abel Perry, r. Nat. 



1 80 M R S E . 

23. 41. Obadiali, inherited the homestead of his father, E. of Farm Pond, and 
had by wife Mercy Walker, I. Daniel, 1729, m. Hannah Eames, s. in Natick, 
where Amory Morse rs. ; 
ii. Abner, 1734, m. Anna Church, and s. at Annapolis, N. S. ; 

75. 44. in. Obadiah, Mar. 20, '32--3, d. Jan. 7, 1800 ; iv. Mercy, '35, m. Ezra 
Whitney, r. Doug.; v. Benaiah, '37, d. '71, killed by a cart, at D. ; 

vi. Samuel, '39, m. Church, s. at Annapolis, N. S. ; vil. Sarah, Ml, 

m. Ezra Cook, r. Warwick ; vin. John, '43, d. ab. 1825, m. Eunice , 

r. D. and S. ; ix. Hannah, '45, m. Ezra Taylor, r. S.boro'; 
x. Mary, '47, m. Asahel Newton, r. Warwick. 

27. 48. Paul, r. Holl., and by w. Sarah Sheffield, had, i. Martha, 1727, m. 
Jeremiah Butler, of Hopk. ; Micah, 1729, perished in the war of '76 ; 
in. Sarah, '33, m. and had chd. ; iv. Daniel, '35, d. 1808, m. Ruth Morse, 
r. Dublin ; v. Hannah, '38, d. '41 ; vi. Wm., '38, d. 1827, m. Mary Bur- 
bank, r. Athol. ; vn. David, '43, d. 1808, m. Esther Sanger, r. Fram. 

37. 51. Benj., s. in H. in the N. W. part, on the road to the S. part of 
Hopk., and by w. Sarah Clark, had, i. Hannah, '54, m. Benj. Prentice, of 
S., '77 ; ii. Sarah, '56, m. Doct. Joshua Richardson ; in. John, '60, s. in 
Connecticut. 



38. 53. Eleazer, s. in H., and had by w. Abigail Foster, who d. 2 weeks after her 

husband, both with the great sickness in '53 and '54; i. Eleazer, Jan. 9, 

1750, d. Sep. 3, '75, in the army, unm. ; 

54. n. Isaac, Jan. 1, '53, 8 days before the death of his mother, and cl. 1823, 

m. Betty Morse, had, I. Eleazer, Oct. 9, 1780, m. Polly Adams, from Rut., 

and had at H., Martha, Calvin, Eleazer, Sarah ; 

n. Betsey, '85, m. John Holmes ; in. Isaac, '88, m. Abigail Lincoln, 

and had at H, Banaiah, Elbridge, Izanna, Emeline, Mary Ann, Russel, 

Abigail, Betsey, Isaac ; 
iv. Abigail, '92, m. Moses Adams, r. Milfd. ; v. Caroline, m. Lyman, 
Harris, r. Shrewsb. ; vi. Calvin, d. vg. 



57. Joshua, 1724, m. Abigail Holbrook. dg. of Jona. H., by w. Abigl. Breek, 

who d. June 22, 1762, and 2d, Unity , from Wrenth., had, I. Abigail, 

'59; ii. Joshua, Feb. 3, '61, lost at sea, unm., '86; in. Hezekiah, Sep. 
25, '68, d. Feb. 26, 1854, m. Sarah Bigelow, inherited his father's part 
of the farm, and had, i. Leonard, 1791, d. Mar. 1, 1849, m. Clarissa Battelle, 
s. on the original homestead of his ancestor, Daniel Morse, left this 
consecrated place to his son Leonard T., the present occupant ; had, 
i. Clarissa, m. James Salsbury ; n. Leonard Townsend, m. and 
has a chd. ; in. Augusta; iv. Jona. C; v. Ellen; 
ii. Joshua, 1793, d. 1838, m. Sarah Tileston, r. Bos.; in. Sarah, '99, 
m. John Houghton, (d.) and occupies her father's homestead ; 
tv. Mary B., m. Moses Sawin, of S.boro'. 
iv. Abigail, 1727, m. Tho. Sawin, r. Natick; v. Moses, 1729, d. Jan. 6, 
'54, unm. ; vi. David, 1731, d. Nov. 26, '92. m. Mary Church, inherited 
the E. part of his father's division of the farm, had, i. Mary, 1757, m. 
Eliphalet Kingsbury, r. Needh. ; n. Abigail, Mar. 27, '57, m. Zedakiah 

Hill, and 2d, Lindsley, of Decl. ; in. Moses, '59, m. Lavina 

Pratt, r. S., had no chd.; iv. David, Esq., '60, m. Azubah Robbins, 
r. Livermore, Me. ; v. Jona., Cpt, '71, m. Anna Lovering, and s. in 
Me. ; vi. Elijah, '76, s. in Me ; vn. Anna, '77, m. Mr. Briant, r. Me., 
and 5 others who d. yg. 



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yii. Jesse, 1734, inherited the part of the farm on which his ancestor, Daniel 
M., first made improvements, m. 1st, Abigail Pratt, who d. 1763 ; and 2d, 
Tabitha Bobbins, who d. '75 ; and 3d, Elizabeth Twitchell, who d. '98, had, 

I. Jesse, Oct. 1, 1760, m. llephzibah Haven, r. Nat. ; ir. Samuel, '62, 

m. Thankful Wheeler, r. Upton ; in. Esther, '66, at Dublin, d. '74; 

iv. Seth, '69, m. Bridget Fisk, r. Livermore, Me. ; v. Jason, '70, d. 

1S44, m. Sarah Read, r. Vt. ; vi. Luther, '75, d. 1828, m. Mary Bul- 

lcn, r. Needh. ; vn. Eleazcr, '77, s. as baker in Boston, had John ; 

vin. Vina, '79, m. Caleb Wight, r. Dover ; 

ix. Aaron, '81, m. , r. Bos., had Aaron, of Roxb. 

44. 75. Obadiah, s. near the new road from Fram., to Medfield, about 100 rods E. 
of Dea. Fisk's, on a place previously owned by Robert Daniels. He m. 
Grace Fairbanks, who d. May 30, 1772 ; and 2d, Abigail Death, fr. Fram., 
and had, i. Mercy, May 7, 1756, m. Asaph Merrifield, r. Holden ; 
ii. Hannah, Feb. 7, '58, m. Josiah Ward, of S.boro' ; in. Adam, Dec. 9, 
'59, d. '70, fr. an injury in the army ; iv. Levi, Jan. 5, '62, d. 1814, m. 
Mary G. Bradford, r. Union. Me. ; v. Grace, Mar. 16, '64, m. Reuben Esty, 
2d, Samuel Whitney ; vr. Obadiah, Dec. 11, '65, m. Sally Palmer ; 2d, 
Phebe R. Oarriel; vn. Mary, Jan. 18, '68, m. Pharos Sawin, r. Natick ; 
Vlll. Samuel, Jan. 3, '70, m. Sally Dix, and 2d, Elizabeth Bernard, r. Bos. ; 
ix. Persia, Apl. 20, '72, d. Feb. 5, 1847, m. Jona. Sibley, M. D., Union, 
Me., and was the mother of Jona. L. Sibley. Esq., assis. librarian of Har. 
Univ., author of His. of Union, &c. ; x. Daniel, Nov. 26, '76, removed W. 
and was never heard from ; 

xr. Judith, July 3, '78, d. '79 ; xn. Ezra, Sep. 1, '79, d. 1842. m. Betsey 
Stratten, 2d, wid. Morse, from W. Boylston, s. in N. W. part of S., had, 

i. C/ts., r. Ashland ; ir. Aimer; in. Geo.; iv. Walter; x. Jona. ; 

vi. Sarah. 
xni. Anne, June 17, '82, d. unm. aged 18 ; xiv. Moses, June 8, '84, m. 
Hannah Prentice ; xv. Asa, June 14, '87, m. Susanna McFarland, r. 
Bridgewater; xvi. Experience, Sep. 15, '90, r. unm., at S. 

Joseph Morse, Capt., son of Joseph, of Medfield, and nephew of Col. M., 
of Cromwell's army, m. Oct. 17, 1671, Mehetabel Wood, b. July 22, 1655, 
dg. of Nicholas W., the first Anglo-American born in S. She d. Nov. 12, 
1681, and he m. 2d, Hannah Badcock, from Milton, Apl. 11, '83, who d. 
Nov. 9, 1711 ; and 3d, Mrs. Hannah, wid. of Capt. Joseph Dyer, of Wey- 
mouth, May 17, 1713, who d. Sep. 4, 1727, aged 67. He settled on land 
inherited from the father of his first w., and built his house about 35 rods 
S. of Holbrook's mills, where he spent his days. He inherited in his father's 
right, with brothers and sisters, the land on which W. Medway village stands. 
He drew lands at W. Sherborn, that now constitutes the farms of Albert P. 
Ware, Artemas J. Leland, and Mrs. Micah Leland, and sons, and Amos 
Leland, which he divided between his two eldest sons. He drew lots in the 
W. part of Holl., and 80 acres in Doug., purchased of Moses Adams land, 
pr. now inH., on which he settled his son Isaac. He, in company with Capt. 
Ware, built the first mill on Scwell's Brook, and soon after" sold out to W. 
He subscribed the second petition for the incorporation of S. ; contributed 
towards effecting an exchange of S. lands with the Naticks ; was rated, 1686, 
to extinguish the Indian title ; served 16 years as selectman, represented S. 
in the Gen. Court, 1715 ; very often acted as moderator in town meetings, 
and took a leading part for a scries of years in all the public affairs of the 



182 MOUSE. 

town. He was a good scribe, and was employed in writing conveyances. At 
his house public worship was first set up in S. He d. Feb. 19, 1717-18, in 
a time of greater mortality, considering the number of inhabitants, than that 
of 1753-4. His remains, with those of his first wife and third son and 
wife, in a state of almost perfect preservation, have lately been exhumed 
and deposited at the head of the Morse Lot in the central burying ground in 
Holl., containing the graves of 6 generations of the race. Will posterity, 
whose ancestors he periled his life to defend against barbarians, protect the 
'2d place of his repose. He had, i. Mehetabel, Apl. 25, 1673, d. 16— ; 
ii. Joseph, Apl. 3. '76, d. June 12, '76; m. Elisha, Dec. 12, '77, d. yg. 
7. 2. iv. Joseph, Mar. 25, '79, d. Apl. 18, 1754, with the great sickness ; 
v. Mehetabel, Nov. 2, '81, m. John Breck. 
23. 3. vi. James, July 1, '86, d. June 5, 1725, m. Ruth Sawin ; vn. Hannah, 
Apl. 5, '89, d. Dec. 11, 1774, m. Isaac Cooledge, Esq. : vm. Sarah, Apl. 
12, '92, m. Wm. Barron ; ix. David, Capt., Dec. 31, '94, d. Jan. 7, 1773, 
m. Sarah Dyer, r. Natick, where his only descendants of the name are John 
and Hamilton Morse ; x. Isaac, Sep. 14, '97, d. 1749-50, at Worcester, m. 

Elizabeth Drury, and 2d, Jane ; xi. Keziah, June 30, 1700, d. Feb. 

18, '54, m. Samuel Holbrook; 
6. xn. Asa, Aug. 24, 1703, d. Oct. 7, 1770, m. Mary Rider, r. Natick, where 
he has no descendants remaining. 



2. 7. Joseph, s. about 60 rods E. of Albert Ware's, at W. Sherborn, m. Prudence 
Adams, b. Apl. 10, 1683, d. Feb. 23, 1772, dg. of Henry A., of Medfield, 
by w. Prudence Frary, who d. aged 88, and grd. dg. of Lt. Henry A., of 
do., by w. Elizabeth Paine, and gr. grd. dg. of Henry A., of Braintree ; had 
12. 8. i. Henry, June 14, 1703, d. Apl. 5, '66, m. Sarah Kibby, r. Med. ; 
9. ii. Joseph, Nov. 15, 1705, d. 1780, m. Experience Morse, r. Sturb. ; 
10. in. Seth, Sep. 12, 1708, m. Abigail Battle, r. Hopk.; iv. Elisha, Apl. 
13, 1715, d. unm, at the homestead; v. Jacob, Sep. 12, 1717, d. Mar. 30, 
1800, m. Mary Merrifield, r. Doug. ; vi. Judith, Oct. 13, 1720, d. Oct. 26, 
'74, m. Capt. Caleb Leland, of S. ; vn. John, Dec. 31, 1724, d. '25. 

8. 12. Henry, settled \ m. S. W. of Winthrop's Lake, on a lot of 177 acres, 
assigned by the proprietors of Medfield, in 1659, to John Frary, hia great 
grandfather. He built his house where Mrs. Abigail Morse Cutler resides. 
When he commenced improvements here in 1727, his nearest neighbors were 
John Goulding, H ms. N. E. ; Malachi Bullard, 2i ms. S. E., Samuel Rocket 
1 m. E., Joshua Underwood, 1 m. N. W., and Edward Kibby J m. W. Ho 
had. i. Abigail, Apl., 1726, at S., d. Dec. 18, '59, at Med. 

15. 13. ii. Ezekiel, Oct. 1, 1727, carried by the father on foot to E. Med., for bap- 
tism, and d. from the kick of horse, Mar. 24, 1778, m. Rebeeca Cozzcns ; 
in. Sarah, Dec. 1729, d. 1804, m. Joseph Rider, of H. ; iv. Hannah, Mar. 
3, 1732, d. Nov. 20, 1817, m. Wm. Andrews, of Hopk. ; v. Henry, Lt,, 
Dec. 2, '34, d. June 23, 1807, m. Abigail Bullen, inherited ^the N. part of 
his father's farm, and d. without issue; vi. Lydia, June 13, 1730, d. yg. ; 
vii. Thankful, June 19, '40, d. Mar. 19, 1810. m. Andrew Watkins, of H. ; 

20. 14. vm. James, Dea., Sep. 5, '42, d. July 19, 1808, m. Hannah Daniels, s. 
1st on W. part of his father's farm, and removed to Milford ; ix. Obadiah, 
Mar. 9, '45, d. yg. ; x. Abner, Feb. 13, '47, d. Sep., '56. 

13. 15. Ezekiel inherited the homestead, and by w. Rebecca Cozzens, who d. Nov. 
19, 1807, a. 78 yrs. 8 mo., he had, i. Lydia, Apl. 4, 1751, d. Oct. 1, '50 ; 








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ii. Elizabeth, Oct. 8, '53, d. Dec. '31, 1833, m. Elijah Adams, r. Hubbard- 
ston ; in. Waitstill, Mar. 6, '55, d. Mar. 8, 1825, m. Joel Partridge, of 
Med. ; iv. Lvdia, Sep. 12, '57, d. Mar. 18, 73. 
17. 16. v. Abner, Esq., Oct. 11, '59, d. Mar. 11, 1821, m. Mille Leland ; 
vi. Sarah, Dec. 21, '61, d. July 31, 1839, ra. Isaac Cozzens, of H. ; 
vii. Abigail. June 16, 'G5, d Mar. 18, '73; vm. Mercy, Dec. 26, '72, d. 
July 6, 1845, m. David Eames, r. Hopk. 

16. 17. Abner, Esq., inherited the homestead, was much employed in transacting 
public business ; served Medway 14 years as selectman, and 3 do. as repre- 
sentative ; was a Justice of the peace for about 12 years, and much employed 
in settling estates, &c. He had, i. Nabby, Aug. 13, 1783, m. Uriel Cutler, 
rs. on the homestead of her father, now annexed to II.; n. Elijah, A. M., 
Esq., Sep. 10, '85, d. Aug. 23, 1831, m. Mary Jackson, r. Bos. ; in. Mille, 
June 23, '89, d. Nov. 16, 1851, m. Alexr. H. Jones, r. Fram. ; iv. Chloe, 
July 24, '91, m. Lemuel Leland, r. S. ; v. Abner, Rev., A. M., m. i. Sarah 
Ann Voorhces, who d. Sep. 27, 1833; and 2d, Hannah Peck. Oct. 15, 
1836, who d. Aug. 29, '42, and had, i. Lucretia, Sep, 18, '33, d. Sep. 24, 
'33, at Boundbrook, N. J.; n. Abner Leland, Oct. .1, 1838, at South 
Bend, Ind. ; in. Elijah Adams, May 25, '41, at do. ; iv. Albert Field, 
Aug. 1, '42, at Onondaga Valley, N. Y. ; 
vi. Betsey, Nov. 12, 1796, d. July 15, 1853, m. Seneca Wight, r. Bell. ; 
vn. Tho. J., Esq., May 27, 1801, m. Lucy Leland, came to S. 1828, was 
appointed a magistrate, 1849, and subsequently became a trader; 
vm. Lucretia, Aug. 17, 1804, d. unm. Dec. 28, '28. 

14. 20. James, Dea., s. E. of the Morse meadow, -} m. S. of the R. R. deep- 
cut ; was a leading citizen of Med., and early chosen Dea. of the 2d chh., of 
which he was a bright ornament. He had, by w. Hannah Daniels, 
i. Obadiah, 1761, d. '66, at Med., now H. ; n. John, Rev. A. M., Mar. 
24, '63, d. Jan. 3, 1844, m. Clarissa Sanford. r. Otego, N. Y. ; 
22. in. Henry, Dea., Apl. 25, '66, d. about 1851, at Paxton ; iv. Ruth, '68, 
d. also Jan. 3, 1844, m. Joel Howard, r. Milfd. ; v. Rhoda, '68 ; vi. Polly, 
'79, m. Daniel Elliot, of Sutton ; vn. Catherine, m. Nathl. Fletcher, of 
Carlton. 



23. James, s. on land given him by his father, at W. Sherborn, built his house 
near the junction of the Holl. road, with the way to the W., on a spot marked 
by an ancient elm, and drew land in Doug, 1715, and had by w. Ruth Sawin, 
i. Thomas, Dec. 5, 1709, m. Mary Treadway. inherited the homestead, and 
had at S., prior to removing to Dublin, N. H, i. Mary, '37-8 ; n. Ruth, 
'39; in. Reuben, Dea., and Esq., '42; iv. Rachel, '44 ; v. Silence, 
'45; vi. Abigail, '46; vn. Tho., '48; vm. Sarah, '50; ix. Ezra, 
'52 ; x. John, May, '54 ; xi. Jona., '56 ; xn. Hannah, '58 ; 
xiii. Amos, '60 ; 
II. Ruth, 1713, m. Joshua Leland, had Josh., Col. and Judge ; in. Deborah, 
'18, m. Capt. Samuel Bullard, of Holl., had Samuel, Esq., a mathemati- 
cian ; iv. James, 1720, d. 1812, m. Grace Bullen, s. on her father's farm, in 
S., now occupied by Isaac Cozzens, had, i. James, 1745-6, m. Betsey Bul- 
lard, and was the father of Judge Nathan M., of N.field, Vt. ; 
ii. Susanna, '48 ; in. Deborah, '50, m. Benj. Guy, of Dov. ; 
iv. Elizth. ; v. Joseph, '57, m. Ilanh. Miller, r. Templcton ; 
vi. Abner, Dea., 1761, r. Randolph, Vt. ; 
v. Abraham, 1720, d. yg. [See my Memorial of the Morses.] 



184 MUZZY, NEWELL, NEWTON, NICHOLS, NORCROSS, NURSE, &C 

1. TllO. Muzzy, m. Abigail Cozzens, Feb. 12, 1735-6, and bad at H., 

i. Ebenezer, Aug. 19, '37, d. Sep. 25, '37 j n. The, June 16, '50. 

3. Robert Muzzy, w., Martha, had at H., i. Robert, Jly. 16, 1769. 



Andrew Newell, previously master of a vessel, bought of Mr. Aniory, of 
Boston, the lot originally assigned to Nathaniel Morse, upon the plain (now 
Danl. Lcland's), settled in S. about 1767, was selectman 1771--72, Justice 
of the Peace, and Commissary for the army in the time of the Revolution. 

He m. Elizabeth , who d. June 21, 1808, a. 78. He d. Jan. 1, 1798, 

a. 68. They had, i. Andrew, who followed the seas; n. Tho., d. at 
Fram., Jly. 19, 1819, a. 53, m. Polly Phips, dg. of Jedediah, and had 

i. Joseph, May 4, 1790 ; n. Geo., Aug. 18, '91 ; in. Andrew, Apl. 
16, '93; iv. Tho.; v. Richard; vi. Austin, bap. May 15, 1803; 
in. Jona. Emery, bap. Feb. 17, 1771 ; iv. Eunice, b. 1769, d. Apl. 8, 
'9G, a. 27 ; v. Rebecca, d. June 29, 1799, a. 25. 



Simeon Newton, m. Jerusha Marsh, and had, I. Simeon, jun., d. Feb. 24, 
1801, m. Sally Fisk, Feb. 21, 1792, had Amos, Sep. 3, '92 ; 
ii. Hannah, Dec. 13, '62, m. Ichabod Perry, Jan. 24, '82 ; m. Jerusha, 
Mar. 15, '66, d. yg. ; in. Jerusha, July 13, '73, d. Sep. 23, 1835, m. 
James Eames, May 29, '85 ; 

iv. Haven, Oct. 29, '68 ; v. Sarah, Jan. 12, '76, d. Dec. 18, 1808, urn. ; 
vi. Elizabeth, Jly. 10, '78, m. Nahum Rockwood ; vn. Levina, m. Hon. 
Elihu Cutler. 
A Jerusha N. m. James Emerson, Dec. 24, 1784, at H. 



Zachariah McholS, w., Rebecca, had at S., i. Rebecca, Aug. 1, 1744; 
ii. Sarah, 1745 ; m. Lydia, May 7, '47. 

Samuel Nichols, w., Polly, had Otis, May 2, 1798, at S. 



Asa NorerOSS, w., Elizabeth, had at H., i. Anna, Jly. 10, 1776; 
ii. Sibbel, Apl. 6, '79 ; in. Moses, Aug. 23, '84. 



Ebenezer Nurse, w., Mary Haven, bad at S., i. Ebenezer, Oct. 3, 1720. 

Wm. W. Otis, b. Aug. 21, 1821, s. of Wm. O., of Exeter, N. H. m. Sarah 
D. Maddox, fr. Me., s. in S. ab. 1850, has Chs. F. 



Y- Joseph Palmer, m. Jerusha Johnson, Oct. 18, 1787, i, Wm., May 22, '88, 
at H. ; n. Sarah, Nov. 24, '89 ; in. Jerusha, Jly. 2, '91 ; 
iv. Hannah, Apl. '93. 

1. Solomon Park, son of Tho. P., of Newton, .and grd. s. of Richard P., 
who, according to tradition, came fr. Scotland, and s. 2 mis. above Newton 
Corner, on the bank of Chs. R. ; located ab. 1732, in the N. part of H., near 



PARKER, PARKHUST, PARTRIDGE. 185 

Hopk. (now Ashland), and soon became a leading citizen of II., and served 

7 ys. as selectman, and 10 ys. as town clerk. He m. Lydia, and had, 

i. Solomon, b. pr. at N. ; grad. at Harv. Univ., 1753, and d. at H. urn. ; 

2. ii. Samuel, Esq., b. Apl. 23, 1734, d. ab. 1807, at Berlin ; 
nr. Keziah, who. d. at H., Apl. 19, 17-42 ; iv. Elizabeth, d. yg. 

3. Samuel, Esq., inherited the homestead; lost an arm, from its being caught 
and crushed in a cider mill. He was chosen representative of H., in 1787-8, 
and selectman, 1789, and was many ys. an acting magistrate. In advanced 
life, he rm. to Berlin, to reside with his son, where he d. He m., Mar. 30, 
1758, Mary Russell, dg. of Dea. James R., of H., and had 

4. i. James Russell, who m. Anna Leland; u. Solomon, who m., Oct. 8, 
1789, Mary Twitchell, had, Sene, Mar. S, '90; Miranda, May 1, '91; 

Adams, Dec. 10, '94 ; James Russell, Aug. 22, '96 ; Almira, Sep. 

3, '98, at H., and Appleton and Warren, b. pr. at Wardsbury, Vt, 

where S. is said to have s., and d. ; 
in. Samuel, who m. Sarah Perry, had Sele, 1797 : Nelesse, Jan. 12, '99, 

at H., and rm. to Auburn, N. Y. ; 
iv. Abigail ; v. Betsey, who m. Stephen Barns. 

7. James Russell, m. Anna Leland [see No. 43 of Leland], s. in Berlin, where 
he d., had, i. Joseph, Col., Nov. 11, 1787, at H., who inherited the home- 
stead and mills of his father, at Berlin, represented B., 1835 -6-7, and 
rm. to H. ab. 1852. He m. Hannah Meriam ; 2d, Eliza Cole; and 3d, 
Olive (Daniels) Leland, had Beulah, d. yg. ; James B., is. Oxfd. ; Melissa, 
d. um. ; Law son, d. yg. 



Timothy Parker, w., Keziah, had in H., I. Sibbella, Dec. 28, 1746; 
ii. Mary, May 7, 174- ; in. Margaret, June 24, '52 ; iv. Keziah, Mar. 19, '54. 

Sol. Parker, w., Elizabeth, had atH., i. Anna, Oct. 2, 1766; n. Elizabeth, 
Jan. 19, '69; in. Achsah, June 16, '73; iv. Hannah, Jan. 28, '82; 
v. Sally, Sep. 12, '84. 

John Parkes, w., Lydia, had at H., i. Aaron Eames, Jan. 23, 1790; 
ii. Emra, Mar. 10, '93 ; in. Nancy, Sep. 14, '95; iv. Lydia, Mar. 19, '97 ; 
v. Calista, Nov. 28, '98. 



Wm. ParkhUSt,, w., Martha, had at II., i. Joel, Jly. 7, 1706 ; 
ii. Nahum, Apl. 4, '68. 



1 . Wm. Partridge, Lt. Gov. of N. II., was father-in-law to Gov. Belcher, 

b. 1681 ; 
1^. Dame Mary Patridge, relict of Gov. P., ? d. at Newbury, June 10, 1639 ; 
2." Mr. Patridge, admitted freeman Mar. 14, 1638-9 ; 

3. Wm. Partridge, had children b. at Salisbury, 1642-50, and d. there 1654; 
12. 4, Wm. Partridge, proprietor of Medfield, 1650, r. there ; 
7. 5. John Partridge, proprietor of do. do. ; 
(5. John Patridge, was of Duxbury, 1690. 

5. 7. John Partridge, w., Magdalene, had at Medfield, i. John ; 
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PARTRIDGE 



37. 8£. ii. Eleazcr, b. 1664; nr. Abiel, b. 1667; iv. Experience, '67; 
v. Bachel, 'G9, in. Joseph Daniel; 

27. 10. vi. Samuel, '71, m. Hannah ; 

25. 11. vii. Zachariah, '74, d. Sep. 23, 1710 ; vm. Elizabeth, '79, m. Ebenr. Daniel. 

4. 12. Wm. Partridge, w., Sarah , had at Medfield, 

13. I. John, 1602 ; n. Elisha, 'G5 ; in. Joseph, Mar. 13, '08 ; 
21. 10. iv. Wm., '09; v. Priscilla, '72; vi. Sarah, '74; vn. Marie, '82. 

17. John, junr., w., Elizabeth Kocket, m. ab. 1079 ; 2d w., Anna , had 

at Medfd., i. Marie, 1681. 
46. 18. ii. Benoni, '87 ; r 

130. 19. in. Jona., '93, m. Elizabeth Learned, of Fram., Nov. 13, 1717. lie and 
w., Ann, deeded his land and house in Med. to his brother James, in 1742 ; 
iv. Hannah, '9G ; v. Deborah, '98 ; 
71. 20. vi. James, Oct., 1700, d. Mar. 9, '68, m. Keziah, dg. of Malachi Billiard ; 
vn. Sarah, '02 ; vm. Seven, Apl. 10, '00 ; ix. Anna, 1709, by 2dw. 

10. 21. Wm., w. Hannah, had at Medfield, i. Wm., 1095 ; ii. Joseph, '99 ; 

in. Hannah, Dec. 24, 1702; iv. Seth, '00 ; v. Mary, '09. 

11. 25. Zachariah, w., Elizabeth, had at Medfd., i. Mary, 1702; ii. Magdalene, 

'03 ; in. Sarah, '00; iv. Zachariah, '09, d. Aug. 31, '18 ; 
26. v. Asa, '12 ; vi. , dg., Aug. 27, '14. 

10. 27. Samuel, w., Hannah , had in Medfield and Medway, i. Hannah 

1702 ; ii. Thankful, '03 ; ill. Samuel, '04 ; iv. Ebcnezer, '06 ; 

v. Abigail, '07 ; vi. Benj., '09, r. Bellingham, had Job, who had 
Job, m. Tamer Patridge ; and Moses, Bev. A. M. ; 

vn. Silence, '09; vm. Mahitable, '10; 
83. 31. ix. Joshua, Jly. 27, '13, d. Jan. 19, '99, m. Elizabeth Kingsbury, 1742 ; 

x. Caleb, Mar. 17, '10-7 ; xi. Silence, Mar. 5, '19, m. Stephen Kingsbury, 

Dec. 23, '42. 

33. Oliver, of Medfd., w. Kate, had at Medfd., i. Nathan, Oct. 11,1094; 
ii. Seth, Mar. 21, '90. 



30. Jesse, of do., w. Keziah, had, i. David, Oct. 14, 1071. 



81. 37. Eleazer, w. Elizabeth ; 2d w., Sarah, had at Medfield, 
158. 38. i. Joseph, 1706; n. David, '08; in. Benj., '13; iv. Elisha, '16, by w. 
Sarah; v. Eleazer, '17; vi. Sarah, '19; vn. Peter, May 1G, '22; 
vm. Zachariah, Mar. 22, '19-20. 



18. 40. Benoni, w., Mehetabel Wheelock, m. 1709, had in Medfd., 
154. 47. i. Preservet, 1709, m. Catherine Armstrong; n. The, '11 ; 
56. 49. in. Seth, '13; iv. David, May 21, '18, v. Mahitable, Apl. 24, '20; 
vi. Samuel, June 24, '22; vn. Sarah, Sep. 27, '24, m Obadiah Adams, of 
Bell., '44 ; 
87. 53. vm. Timothy, Jan. 18, '26-7; 
159. 54. ix. Eli, June 3, '29; 
90. 55. x. Moses, Aug. 28, '33. 



49. 50. Seth, w. Sarah ; 2d, w. Mary, had at Medfd., i. Olive, Jime 22, '33 



TART RIDGE. 187 

97. 57. ir. Seth, June 27, '35 ; in. Abel, by w. Mary; 

iv. ? Anna, who m. Lt. Jona. Holbrook, and inherited the homestead. 



59. Edward, ? w. Sarah, had at Medfield, i. Elisha, Jly. S, 1734 ; 

ii. Asa, May 23, '36 ; in. Edward, May 23, '38 ; iv. Simeon, Apl. 5, '41 ; 
G4. v. Silas, Sep. 2, '44. 

20. 71. James, w., Keziah Ballard, b. Dec. 2, 1711, d. ab. 1802, r. 1 m. N. of 

Med. Vil., where late Joel Patrid^e, 2d, lived, and had, 
92. 72. i. James, Oct. 10, 1730, s. in Boylston ; n. Malachi, Nov. 30, '31, r. 

Sturbridgc and Ashtield ; in. Keziah, Nov. 12, '33, m. Moses Thompson, 

of Med. ; iv. Asa, Mar. 6, '34-5, d. pr. urn.; v. Lois, Sep. 20, '3(5, m. 

Benj. Pond, jun., of Wrcnth., Jly. 29, '56; vi. Bethiah, Nov. 22, '38, m. 

Seth Hixon, b. at Stoug., '34. d. ag. 86, at Med. ; 
74. vii. Eleazer, Apl. 19, '40, m. Lois Rockwood, of Wrenth., '64, and r. 

Eranklin ; vm. Lydia, Dec. 6, '43, d. a. 97, m. Saml. Bullard, Esq., of Holl. ; 

ix. Stephen, June 10, '46, r. Passim ; 
102. 77. x. Joel, Feb. 19, '47-8, m. Waitstill Morse, r. 1 m. N. of Med. Vil.; 

xi. Eunice, Jly. 26, '49 ; 
105. 78. xii. Nathan, Mar. 20, '51, m. Melatiah Holbrook, dg. of Dea. Joseph H., 

of Bell., who m. Capt. Tho. Adams, for 2d husb. He r. a few rods E. 

of Joel, on the place since owned by Peter Lewett; xm. Hannah, Sep. 19, 

'53 ; xiv. Elizabeth, subject to derangement, d. um. ; xv. Chloe, Apl. 

11, '56, d. unm., was insane. 



79. Ephraim, of Medway, w. Lydia, had, I. Lydia, Dec. 27, 1728 ; 
ii. Elizabeth, Nov. 19, '30 ; in. Sarah. Dec. 20, '32 ; 
94. 80. iv. Nathl., Dea., Dec. 17, '34; v. Elisha, June 3, '37; vi. Elisha, June 
21, '38; 

vii. Deborah, Aug. 24, '41, m. Levi Warren, of W.boro'; vm. Olive, Dec. 
31, '43. 



82. Stephen, of Med., w. Mary, had, i. Mary, JuneJ 20, '38 ; ii. Azubah, 
Apl. 16, '42 ; 
113 82^ m . Stephen.? 

31. 83. Joshua, w., Elizabeth Kingsbury, m. Dec. 23, 1742, had at Med., 

i. Elizabeth, Sep. 28, '43 ; 
114. 84. ii. Joshua, Apl. 5, '45, m. Hannah Cutler, 1767; in. Elizabeth, Mar. 

20, '47, m. Wheeler ; iv. Ichabod, Aug. 13, '49 ; 

120. 86. v. Samuel, Dec. 26, '52 ; Feb. 17, 1842; m. Mahitable Allen ; 

vi. Rhoda, Feb. 3, '57. 



53. 87. Timothy, w., Abigail Barbour, m. 1755, r. 80 rods W. of Mucksquit 

School-house, W. Med., and had 
117 87i-. i. Samuel, Mar. 18, '56, s. at Paxton, inherited the Partridge pasture and 

orchard, W. of Winthrop's Lake ; n. Eunice, Mar. 15, '58 ; 
121. 88. in. Elijah, Apl. 4, '62, m. Keziah Curtis; 2d, Catherine Clark; 

iv. David, Dec. 30, '65 ; 
125. 89. v. Timothy (probably). 

55. 90. Moses, of Med., w.", Rachel Thayer, m. '55, bad, i. Frcelove, Feb. 11, 
'57 ; ii. Deadan, Feb. 14, '59 ; 



188 PARTRIDGE. 

91. m. Simeon, Capt., Feb. 28, '60, m. Jerusha White, r. W. Med., had 

Eliliu, Sep. 28. '87, who m. Charlotte Wight, and inherited the homestead; 

iv. Beulah, Jly. 5, '62 j v. Tabitha, Apl. 30, '65 ; vi. Clarissa, June 14, 75. 

72. 92. James, of Med. and Bojlston, w., Abigail Partridge, m. '59, had 

i. Rhoda, Dec. 9, '00 ; n. Asa, Dec. 20, '61 ; in. Ozias, June 18, 'G3 j 
iv. Asahel, Mar. 7, '66. 



80. 94. Nathl., Dea., of W. Med., w. Mahitable, had, i. Lucretia, May 5, '64 ; 
n. Ephraim, Nov. 18, '65, d. a member of Col. at Providence; 
in. Sarah, June 19, '70; iv. Olive, Jan. 31, '75, m. Samuel Clark, and 
inherited her father's homestead, where Wm. Adams resides in W. Med. ; 
v. Grace, Oct. 6, '77; vi. Lydia, Oct. 3, '79 ; vn. Deborah, June 19, '83. 

57. 97. Seth, jun., of Med. and Wrentham, w., Mercy (Harding), had 
100. 98. I. Ziba, Sep. 27, '61, m. Elizabeth Knowlton ; n. Darius, m. Abigail 
Ellice ; in. Mercy, m. Abner Pond, of Wrenth. 

98. 100. Ziba, of Med., w., Elizabeth Knowlton, had at Med., i. Mary, Nov. 13, 
'89, m. John Abbe, of Med. ; n. John, Nov. 17, '99, m. Susan, dg. of 
Calvin Turner, of Med., r. at Athol, and is dep. sheriff. 

77. 102. Joel, of Med., w., Waitstill Morse, bad, i. Ezekiel, Jly. 1, '75, m. 

Deborah Harding; n. Nabby, Jan. 9, '77, m. Ezra Adams; in. Catherine, 
Apl. 1, '79, m. Stephen Adams ; iv. Tamer, Aug. 8, '81, m. Job Patridge ; 
v. Joel, Mar. 1, '84, m. Sarah Clark; 2d, Joanna Sanford ; vi. Jerusha, 
May 2, '87, m. David Mann, of W.boro'. ; vn. Ede, June 25, '89, m. 
Nathl. Clark ; viii. James, Sep. 3, '93, d. agd. 20, in hopes of a blessed, 
immortality. 

78. 105. Nathan, of Med., w., Melatiah Holbrook, bad, i. Levina, Jan. 8, '77, 

d. young ; 
107 106. ii. Nathan, Dec. 27, '78, m. Isabella Fessendon ; 

in. Susanna, Nov. 30, '83, m. Capt. Asa Fisk, of Holl. 

106. 107. Nathan, of Barre, w., Isabella Fessendon, had, i. Hiram F., June 16, 
1805, d. agd. 40 ys. ; n. Lavina ; in. Albert ; iv. Augusta M. ; 
v. Winfield S. ; vi. Wm. A. 

82|-. 113. Stephen, of Med., w. Esther, had, i. Hannah, Jan. 30, 1773; 
ii. Judith, Apl. 20, '74. 

84. 114. Josbua, jun., of Med., w., Hannah Cutler, had, i. Joseph, Apl. 26, '68, 
d. Oct. 26, 1822, m. Chloe Puffer ; II. Priscilla, June 14, '74, d. Aug. 12, '74 ; 
129. 116. in. David, also Sep. 20, '75, m. Miriam Partridge, 1804. 



87J. 117. Samuel, of Med. and Paxton, w. Elizabeth, had, i. Nabby, Nov. 14, '82 ; 
ii. Silence, Oct. 9, '84; in. Zilla, May 27, '86; iv. Polly, May 11, '89; 
v. Betsey, Nov. 11, '91 ; vi. David, Mar. 31, '95. 



86. 120. Samuel, of Med., w., Mahitable Allen, had, i. Elizabeth, Apl. 8, 1776 ; 
ii. Matilda, May 9, '78 ; in. Rhoda, Dec. 20, '80 ; iv. Vesta, Sep. 22, 
'82 : v. Miriam, Aug. 23, '85, m. David Partridge, 1804 ; vi. Mahitable, 
Dec. 20, '88 ; vn. Clarissa, May 13, '91. 



PARTRIDGE. 189 

88. 121. Elijah, of TV. Med., w.JveziaW. Curtis, d. Jan. 16, '95; 2d w., Catherine 

Clark, had, i. Rachael, Dec. 7, '85, m. Daniel Leland, jun., of Sherbom ; 
ii. Leah, Jan. 7, '88, d. yg. ; in. Timothy, Mar. 14, '89 ; iv. Clark, May 
16, '99, by 2d w. ; v. Cata, Feb. 6, 1801 ; vi. Elijah, Jan. 29, '05. 

89. 125. Timothy, of Med., w., Lois Ware, m. '87, had, i. David, Feb. 16,1788. 



126. Joseph, of Med., w. Chloe, had, i. Chloe, Mar. 18, '95 ; n. Betsey, 1802. 

127. Bernard, of do., w. Mary, had, I. Betsey, Oct. 31, 1802; 
ii. Mary Ann, Feb. 15, '04. 

116. 129. David, m. Miriam Partridge, 1804, r. Brimfield, had Allen, Jan. 16, 
1806, m. Pegga Daniels, 1828, r. Sharon, and had, i. Frances 31., Dec. 31, 
1829, m. Augustus A. Sampson, 1847, of Sharon, had i. Ezra, '47, d. '48 ; 
ii. Harriot A., Sep. 2, '31, b. in Milford ; in. David A.,Apl. 3, '33 ; 
iv. Warren Y., Feb. 3, '39, at Harwington, Ct. ; v. Wm. S., Api. 30, 
'41 ; vr. Geo. V., Nov. 9, '42. 

19. 130. Jona. Partridge, m. Elizabeth Learned, Nov. 13, 1717 ; 2d, Anna Phipps, 
Jan., 1739, sold his place 1 m. N. of Med. Vil„ 1742, to his brother James, 
and rni. first to Sherborn. He was a Baptist, and had resided in Bos. ; had, 
i. Mathew, Mar. 16, 1718, at Med. ; n. Elizabeth, Aug. 17, '20 ; 
in. Huldah, Jly. 18, '22; 
140. 132. iv. Jona., Jly. — , '24, m. Abigail Lovet, fr. Med., 1748; v. Mary, 
Jly. 19, '26, m. Abner Ellice, '47 ; vi. Ede, Dec. 4, '27, m. Nathan 
Bullard, '50 ; vn. Hannah, Feb. 12, '29 ; vm. Jasper, Apl. 15, '32 ; 
ix. Learned, Feb. 7, '34-5 ; x. Silas, Jly. 22, '37, s. at Peru, m. Abigail, 

and had, Melatiah, Aug. 23, '65; xi. Thadeus, Nov. 28, '39, m. 

Thankful, s. at Barre, had, i. John, Dec. 30, '67; II. Eleazcr, rs. B. ; 

148. 137. xn. Reuben, Nov. 21, 1741, m. Mary , r. where Alpheus Clark rs. ; 

xin. Jabez, also Nov. 21, 1741 ; xiv. Rhoda, Feb. 11, '43-4, at Sherborn ; 
xv. John, Oct. 28, '46, at do., m. Phebe , and s. in Barre, had, 

i. Silas, June 5, '74 ; n. Rhoda, Jly. 10, '76 ; in. Chloe, Sep. 20, 

'79 ; iv. John, Mar. 27, '82. 

132. 140. Jona. Partridge, w., Abigail Lovet, m. Oct. 12, 1748, had at S., 

i. Jabez, Dec. 11, 1748, m. Anna Twitchell, b. May 24, '51, m. May W, 
'72, and rm. to Gardner, had at S. 

i. Adam, Jan. 2, '73 ; n. Deborah, Apl. 25, '75 ; 

in. Adam, Mar. 11, '78 ; iv. Hannah, Dee. 7, '80 ; v. Anna, Nov. 

4, '83 ; vi. Cynthia ; vn. Miriam ; 

vm. Henry, m. Anna Holbrook, of S., r. Medfield, has 

i. Anna Maria, m. James Bigelow (d.), has I. Anna M. ; 
ii. Win. H. ; in. Henry (d.) ; iv. James F. ; v. Caroline S. ; 
vi. Jas. R. 
ii. Henry, Jan., m. Electa Leland, r. M. ; in. Caroline, m. 
Rev. Daniel W. Stevens, of Mansfield ; 
ii. Lovet, Sep. 13, '50, at S. ; 
in. Stephen, Aug. 2, '52, at S.; 

iv. Jona., Feb. 21, 1757, by 2nd w., Keziah, at Barre ; 
v. Jacob, Dec. 12, '59, at B. ; vi. Keziah, Apl. 29, '61 ; 
vn. Lydia, Jly. 14, '64. 



190 1' AYS OX, PERRY. 

137. 148. Reuben Partridge, m. Mary Perry, s. on the place where Alphcus Clark, 
Esq., rs., which he sold to Dea. Wm. C, and rm. to Gardner. He had, 
i. Mary, May 15, 1767. at S., m. Samuel Hill, May 15, '91 ; n. Amos, 
Nov. 25, '08; in. Anne, May 23, '70; iv. Deborah, Apl. 25, '73; 
v. Elizabeth, May 8, '74 ; vi. Moses, Mar. 8, '76 ; vn. John, Dec. 7, '77 ; 
viii. Nathaniel, Nov. 5, '81 ; ix. Wm., May 14, '83 ; x. Wm. Mar. 1G, '88. 

47. 154. Preservet Partridge, or " Patridge," b. 1700, s. of Benoni P., of Med., 
by w. Mehetabel Wheeloek, and grd. s. of John P., of Medfield, by w. 
Elizabeth Rocket, and gr. grd. s. of Wm. P., who had land assigned him at 
Medfield, 1G50, m. Katherine Armstrong, 1737, and bad, i. Nathan, Aug. 
3, 1738, at Med. ; n. Bathsheba, Aug. 19, '40, at Holl. ; in. Jesse, Aug. 
29, '42, at H. ; it. Katherine, Aug. 26, '44; v. David, Jan. 26, '46-7. 

38. 158. Joseph Partridge, b. 1706, s. of Eleazer P., of Medfd., by w. Elizabeth 

, and grd. s. of John P., of M., by w. Magdalene , who had land 

assigned him at Medfd., 1650, m. Unice Morse, 1732 (p. 22 of Memorial), 
and 2d, Mary Sheffield, '46-7. He had in H., i. Phebe, Jly. 2, '41 ; 
II. Urania, Oct. 7, '50, and pr. rm. to Bell. 

54. 159. Eli Partridge, ? by w. Rachel, had in H., i. Sheffield, Nov. 2, 1752. 

Wid. Hannah P. d. at H., Jly. 19, 1754 ; 
Mr. P. m. Abigail Leland, June 2, '63, at H. 



Samuel PaySOn, fr. Walpole to H. ab. 1817, m. Addela Pond, fr. Frank., 
and had, i. Edwin, Aug. 31, 1819, m. Susan Sole, fr. Portland, Me. ; 
n. Warren L., Jly. 15, '22, m. Adelia M. Pond, rs. a housewright in H. 



1. John Perry, from Medfield, had a home lot assigned him, 1679, upon the 
Plain in S. where the late Lemuel Leland resided, was rated for the Indian 
title 1686 ; was selectman 1692-93, and d. prior to 1715. He m. Bethiah 
Morse, May 23, 1665, who was b. 24 (1), 1648, dg. of Daniel M. of S., 
and d. 1717. He had i. John, Sept. or Dec. 24, 1667, m. Sarah Hill, July 
28, 1691, had Hanh. Oct. 27, '94. 
9. 3. n. Samuel, Aug. 25, 1674, m. Joanna Lovet, April 26, 1698. 

12. 4. in. Joseph, Aug. 25, 1674, m. Martha Lovet also, April 26, '98 ; iv. Na- 
thaniel, May 18, 1671, at Medfield, d. Jan. 28, 1681. 

16. 6. v. A Nathaniel d. Sep. 7, '56, m. Abigail , d. Mar. 15, 1728-29 ; 

vi. Bethiah, b. 1685, who m. Aaron Morse; vn. Eleazer, June 1, 1680, 
m. Mary Holbrook, June 19, 1705, and had 

161. 8. I. Eleazer, June 2, 1706. 

3. 9. Samuel, w. Joanna Lovet, r. Sh. ; I. Hannah, Mar. 17, 1698-9; n. John, 
June 16, 1703 ; ill. Sarah, Feb. 10, 1705-6. 
90. 11. iv. Samuel, Oct. 2, '08, d. Oct. 10, '55, m. Ruth Leland April 9, '35, 
rm. Natick. 



4. 12. Joseph, w. Martha Lovet, r. pr. N. of Brush Hill in Sh. 
20. 13. I. Joseph, Esq., Dec. 1, 1699, d. May 7, 1789, m. Abigail Holbrook, r. 

N. of Brush Hill, where Noyes Mann rs. 
147. 14. ii. James, May 15, 1703, m. Elizabeth Death, Feb. 8, '27-28, s. near 

the upper Depot in Hoi. 



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25. 15. in. David, Apl. 22, '00, d. Sep. 27, a. 87, s. N. of Brush Hill, where 
late Uriel Cutler r. 



G. 10. Nathaniel, w. Abigail Mason, d. Mar. 15, '28-9, r. Sh. ; I. Abigail, May 5, 
1715, m. John Whitney, of Fram., Feb. 8, '38-9. 

29. 17. II. Nathaniel, Jan. 2, '10-17, d. Jan. 24, '54. 

34. 18. in. Mdses, Jly. 28, '19, (a Moses d. Jly. 20, 1820, a. 85,) d. Mar. 18, 
1809, a. 90, m. Deborah Ivery, of Fram., Feb. 17, '42-3 ; iv. Hezekiah, 
Feb. 28, '20-1 ; v. Mary, Aug. 10, '24, d. Jly. 29, '27 ; VI. Deliverance, 
Oct. 12, '20, m. Samuel Whiting, June 14, '50; vn. Mary, Feb. 21, '28-9, 
d. Mar. 31, '29. 



13. 20. Joseph, Capt. and Esq., w. Abigail Holbrook, m. Oct. 1G, 1722, r. Sh. 
He was representative 1741, and an excellent proprietor's clerk, and 1G 
years selectman ; i. Daniel, Nov. 24, 1724, m. Mary, had Sarah, Nov. 2-'!, 
'48, and Joseph, Mar. 12, '49-50 ; if. Martha, Ma V 2, '28, m. John Death, 
Nov. 22, '50; in. Joseph, Aug. 15, '31, Rev. A. M, Harv. Col., 1752 ; 
iv. Abigail, Jan 10, '33-4 ; v. Simeon, Aug. 5, '30. 

48. 24. Amos, Feb. 19, '40-41, sold to John Sanger his father's homestead, N. of 
Brush Hill. 



15. 25. David, w. Mary, " wf. of D. d. Jan. 29, '91, a. 79," r. Sb. 

I. Hannah, Aug. 19, 1735; il. Mary, Sept. 24, '37; in. Desire, Dec. 20, 
'39, m. John Clayes, of Fram., 1702 ; iv. Anne, Oct. 19, '42; 
v. Martha, Jly. 3, '45, d. urn. ; vi. Kate, Nov. 2, '47 ; vn. David, Apl. 22, 
'52, m. Sarah Fisher, of Fram., Aug. 19, '73; vin. pr. Abigail, m. 
Thos. llussel, jun., on the same day; ix. Simeon, Jan. 9, '57 ; 

78. 28. x. Tyler. 

17. 29. Nathaniel, w. Elizabeth Soutre, or Soughton, a French lady, fr. Water T., 

who m. 2d, John Morse, of Med. and Medf., and had Elizth., John, Hanh. 
55. 30. i. Moses, May 19, 1741, d. Jly. 20, 1820, a. 85, m. 1st Abigail Perry ; 

2d, Catherine Haven. 
60. 31. ii. Edward West, Mar. 8, '43, d. June 5, '10, a. 00, m. Esther Learned, r. 

Brush Hill, and afterwards where Elisha Barbour re. ; in. Daniel, Apl. 4, 

'40, d. Feb. 0, '54 ; iv. Hezekiah, Dec. 15, '50, d. Feb. 1, '54. 

18. 34. MoseS, (called Shock), w. Deborah Ivery, d. June 12, '00; 2d, Susanna 

Child, from Newton, d. Nov. 11, 1800, a. 73, r. Plain S. ; i. Ivory, Nov. 10, 
1743, m. Keziah Broad, Sep. 3, '07, of Natick, rm. Dublin ; n. Mary, 
Apl. 2, '45, m. Reuben Partridge, r. Sh. and Gardner, sold to Dea. Win. 
Clark his place on Edward's plain; in. Abigail, Jan. 31, '40, m. Moses 
Perry, of Brush Hill ; iv. Deborah, Dec. 2, '48, d. Oct. 27, '54 ; v. Moses, 
Dec. 15, '50, d. Oct. 30, '54; vi. Elizabeth, Oct. 15, '52, m. ■ Cleve- 
land when advanced, d., no chd. ; vn. Phebe, Oct. 15, '52, d. Jly. 15, '54.. 

03. 37. vin. Moses 3d, a cooper, Nov. 25, '55, d. Mar. 2, 1819, m. Mary Sanger, 
d. Dec. 17, 1818, r. Sh., where Davis r., near Peter's Hill, also where Dea. 
Fisk rs.and sold to Chamberlain, a tanner; ix. Nathaniel, Sept. 10, '57, rm. 
S. C, to a place called 90, m. had a family ; x. Deborah, June 15, '59, m. 
Dea. Jos. Dowse, Sept. 4, '83; xi. Benj., Sept. 15, '01, rm. S. C, and 
never returned ; xn. Anna, Aug. 23, '02, by 2d w., and d. urn. 

67. 40. xin. West, Apl. 1, '70, m. Mary Stone, Dec. 23, '94, rm. N. Y. 

06. 41. xiv. Calvin, Apl. 1, '74, m. Sally Learned ; xv. Eli, Oct. 28, '70, d. Jan. 



192 ' PERRY. 

23, " '75"; an Eli d. Sep. 29, '80; xvi. Susanna, Jan. 13, '79, m. 
Michael Clark, Jan. 1, 1809, had Jos., Mary A. 

43. Ephraim, 1st w. Hannah Holbrook, b. Sept. 11, '20, m. 1742, d. June 27, 
'44; 2d w. Mary Babcock ; i. Ebenezer, Mar. 27, 174G ; n. Jesse, Oct. 
22, '47 ; in. John. Oct. 30, '49; iv. Jona., Dec. 7, '51. 

24. 48. Amos, Capt., w. Patience, r. Sh. ; i. Luther, Dec. 23, 17G4, d. ; n. Josiah, 
Apl. 15, '60, m. Anna Sanger, May 30, '90, and died without issue. 

73. 51. in. Daniel, Jan. 22, '68; iv. Julia, Jly. 27, '70; v. Richard, June 29, 
'71; vi. Lemuel, Aug. 17, '73; vn. Washington, Oct. 22, '75; 
viii. Desire, Aug. 24, '78, d. urn. 



30. 55. Moses, Lt., w. Abigail Perry, d. May 2, 1790; 2d, Catherine Haven, d. June 

5, 1852, a. 80, r. Brush Hill; i. Abigail, Feb. 20, 1768, m. Oliver Lcland, 
Jan. 10, '88, r. Holl. ; n. Hezekiah, Aug. 18, '69, d. urn., May 5, 1807, at 
So, r. in Boston. 
86. 57. in. John, Mar. 7, '71, m. Dec. 25, '94, Catherine Fast, of Bos.,dg. of 
Peter and Mary or Catherine F., fr. Germany. He d. a. 80, and she d. a. 
81 ; iv. Persis, Mar. 9, '73, d. um., ag. ab. 20; v. Geo., Feb. 8, '75, d. 

Feb. 22, 1823, r. Boston, m. How; 2d Mary Baxter, had 1 Chs. T., 

of Hoboken, N. Y. ; vi. Charles, Mar. 11, '77, d. pr. yg. ; vn. Eunice, 
Mar. 6, '79, m. Doct. Fitch, r. Greenfield, N. H. ; vni. Elizabeth, Mar. 
28, '81, m. Josiah Jaquill, and d. in Brunswick, Me., and left no issue ; 
ix. Deborah, Jly. 23, '83, m. Benj. Whittemore, of Greenfield, N. H., 
Aug. 28, 1809; x. Phebe, May 25, '85, m. Gilbert Hall, N. H., r. Ben- 
nington ; xi. Catherine Haven, June 2, 1809, by 2d w., rs. in Sh. 

31. 60. Edward West, w. Esther Learned, m. Sept. 4, '71, d. Mar. 12, '13, a. 01 ; 

i. Daniel, Jan. 5, 1772, m. Rebecca Prentice, Apl. 9, '95, r. Brookline ; 
i^. Amy, Jan. 10, '74, m. Peter Twitchell, r. Bethel, Me. ; n. Sarah, Jan. 
26, '76, d. um. Feb. 28, 1801 ; in. Hannah, Oct. 3, '78, d. um., Mar. 27, 
'09, a. 30 ; iv. Esther, Nov. 5, '82, m. Elisha Barber, Feb. 15, 1808, r S ; 
v. Amos, Apl. 20, '89, m. Rebecca Sawin, had Harriet, 1820, who rs. 
Natick. 



37. G3. Moses " 3d," w. Mary Sanger, m. Nov. 21, '82, and, with his Br. Nathl., 
bought the original Fairbank's lot (late Dea. Fairbank's) S. E. of Peter's 
Hill; i. Nathaniel, Feb. 5, 1787, m. Sally Tucker, 1808, and d. at Bos., 
leaving $40,000 for charitable uses; n. Nabby, Dec. 1, '90, m. Dea. Calvin 
Leland, May 2, 1811, r. Natick; in. Polly, June 2, '94, d. yg. ; iv. 
Joseph, bp. Oct. 23, '96, d. yg. 

41. 06. Calvin, m. Sally Learned, Oct. 1, '95, r., a blacksmith, Oxford ; i. Sylvia, 
Sep. 14, 1796. 

40. 07. West, w. Mary Stone, m. Dec. 24. '94, r. N. Y. ; i. Emma, Mar. 2, 
1795; ii. Benj., June 19, '9G, d. Nov. 11, '02; in. Eli, Nov. 30, '97; 
70. iv. Amos S., Dec. 1, 1801; v. Benj. W., Mar. 21, '03 ; vi. Calvin, Dec. 
29, '04. 

51. 73. Daniel, w. Becca Prentice, r. Brookline; i. Dexter, Jan. 13, 1797, r. 
Dexter; II. Edward, June 1, '99; in. Wm., r. um. at Brookline; iv. 
Sarah, um. ; v. Daniel, June 2, 1809, m. Mary Earle, r. N. Providence ; 






PERRY. 193 

vi. Hanh., ra. Saml. Lincoln; vit. llebecca, d. yg. ; vin. Charles, Feb. 10, 
1812, m. Mary Jamerson, dg. of Wm. J., of Holl., had 
i. Chs. Wm., Dec. 6, 1838, and r. Cohasset. 

28. 78. Tyler, w. Sally, r. N. W. side of Brush Hill, and removed to Orange ; 

79. I. David, Sept. 3, 178G ; n. Sally, Feb. 22, '89 ; in. Nancy, Feb. 15, 
'91; iv. Polly, Aug. 30, '93; v. Clarissa, Dec. 18, '95; vi. Lucy, bp. 
May 25, 1800 ; vn. Clarissa, bp. Jly. 4, '02. 

80. John, w. Silence ; I. John, Sep. 3, 1759, at S. ; n. Joseph, Mar. 27, '64, 
at Natick ; in. Simeon, Oct. 25, '66 ; iv. Joshua, Apl., '72, d. May 8, '72. 

57 86. John, w. Catherine Fast, m. Dec. 25, '94, b. Jly. 16, 1770, r. Bos., now 
in 1855 rs. S. ; i. John Morse, Oct. 16, '95, d. Sept. 14, 1837, urn., at S. ; 
ii. Catherine, Feb. 3, '98, m. Samuel Wheeler, Sept. 21, '24, r. Boston; 
in. Eleanor Brown, Jly. 11, 1800, m. Isaac Thayer, June, '41 ; iv. Chs. 
Mason, Sept. 17, '02, was a dwarf, d. Jly. 16, '33 ; v. Harriot, Feb. 18, 
'05, d. May 10, '42, m. Elisha Copeland ; vi. Almira Hall, Feb. 10, '08, 
d. Mar. 11, '36, subject to fits; vn. Wm. Henry. Feb. 19, '11, m. Elizth. 
Wight, and 2d, Susan Gore Wight, r. Brush Hill, S. 

11. 90. Samuel, m. Ruth Leland, Apl. 9, 1735, r. Natick. 

96. 91. i. Abel, d. Apl. 13, 1808, m. Ruth Morse, drew by law a double portion 

of his father's estate. 
99. 92. n. Samuel, m. Elizabeth Row, 1766 ; in. Asa, m. Lydia Leland, of H., 
1769, r. Fitchburg ; iv. Ichabod, Jan. 7, 1756, m. in do., r. Fitchburg ; 
v. Eleazer, Feb. 17, '50, m. Esther Morse, '73, dg. of Pelatiah M., r. and d. 
Medf. ; vi. Miriam, Apl. 25, '48, m, John Daniels, of Holl. ; vn. Mary, 

Feb. 17, '53, m. Hastings, r. Cambridge, N. H. (?) ; vnr. Ruth, 

in. John Smith, r. Dublin, N. H. ; ix. Sarah, m. Elijah Bacon, s. Natick. 

91. 96. Abel, m. Keziah Morse, 1757, d. Oct. 9, '94, r. N. 

105. 97. i. Abel, June 12, '57, ru. Asenath Haven, '82 ; n. Keziah, Nov. 30, 

'58 ; in. Sarah, Oct. 25, '60 ; iv. Ruth, Apl. 9, '63, m. Phineas Rice, '84, 

of Framingham. 
115. 98. v. Samuel, 2d, Aug. 8, '67, m. Hanh. Parks, '89. 

92. 99. Samuel, 1st, w. Elizabeth Row, m. 1766, d. Sept. 26, '11, a. 07, r. N. ; 

i. Elizabeth, Apl. 10, '07, m. Hezekiah Morse, r. Eaton, N. Y. 
110. 100. ii. Samuel, 3d, June 20, '69, m. Olive Rice. 
123. 101. in. Elijah, Jly. 7, '71, m. Mary Jones, r. N. ; iv. Dolly, Mar. 21, '74, 

m. Elijah Drury, r.'N. 
130. 102. v. Wm., Aug. 22, '77, m. Hanh. Leland, dg. of Adam L., and grd. dg. of 

Caleb by w. Judith Morse ; vi. Mary, Jly. 30, '80, m. Tho. Holland, Esq., r. 

Eaton, N. Y. ; vn. Sarah, Feb. 7, '83, m. Moses Babcock ; vin. John W., 

m. Sally Rice, r. N, had 

i. John W., r. Medf. ; n. Andreio J., (d). 

95. 104. Eleazer, w. Esther Morse, ds;. of Pelatiah, m. June 24, '73, r. N. and 
Medf. ; i. Ruby, Mar. 10, '74, 'd. May 5, '70, at N. ; n. Hannah, Apl. 20, 
'76 ; in. Ruby, Mar. 28, '79 ; iv. Rebecca, Apl. 28, '82, d. Aug. 7, '85 ; 
v. Elizabeth, Dec. 22, '84, at N. 

97. 105. Abel, Jan., m. Asenath Haven, Jan. 20, '82 ; 2d, Mary Jackson, of 

Newton, '97, r. N.; i. Wm., Oct. 28, '82, m. Hannah Leland, 1802; 
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194 PEItRY. 

143.? 107. II. Abel, Mar. 5, '85; m. David, Sept. G, '87, (d.), m. Betsey Morse, 
1808, r. N. ; tv. Hannah, Aug. 15, .'91, m. Elias How; v. Asa, June 7, 
'04, d. Sept. 20, '97 ; vi. Asenath, Sept. 24, '98, m. Perly How, r. N. Y. 

100. 110. Samuel, m. Olive Rice, Oct., 1789, r. N. ; i. Otis, Dec. 16, '91, d. 

1800 ; n. Nabby, Nov. 27, '92, m. Isaac Greenwood, r. S. Natick ; 
in. Lowell, Oct. 3, '94, m. Harriet Perry, r. N. Natick; iv. Stephen, Aug. 
11, '96, m. Catherine W. Sevens, r. Newton ; v. Kozia, b. 1798, m. Mason 
Brown, r. Dover; vi. Jona., Aug. 7, 1800, m. Margaret Nichless ('!), r. 
Dover, has i. 31argt., m. Jedediah S. Mann, r. S. ; n. Ann; in. George. 
vir. Eliza, Nov. 11, '01, m. Otis S. Travis, r. N. Natick; vin. Lucy, 
Nov., '03, m. Alvan Knowlton; ix. Samuel, b. '05, m. Nancy B. Foster; 
x. Fanny, b. '09, m. Albert G. Whipple. 

98. 115. Samuel, jun., '99, w. Hannah Parks, m. '93, r. Nat. and rm. Brookfield ; 
i. Lyman, Aug. 30, '94, d. Nov. 19, 1803 ; n. John, Jan. 25, '96, d. urn. 
in Pa. ; in. Dexter, Feb. 5, '98, rm. Penn., d. urn. ; iv. Samuel, Jly. 3, 

'99, m . , ^y, his cousin ; 2d, Martha Stone ; v. Sally, Apl. 30, '01, m. 

Richardson, r. Ware ; vi. Elizabeth, bp. May 22, '03 ; vn. Chs., Apl. 

25, '05, d. June 20, '05 ; vm. Lyman, Apl. 27, '07, m. Lucy Parks, his 
cous., r. Bos. ; ix. Hannah, bp. May 7, '09, m. Asa Drury, her cousin, r. 
N. ; x. Elbridge, bp. Oct. 19, '11, r. um. at Brookfield; xi. Emily, bp. 
Jly. 11, '13, m. Harvey Drury, her cousin. 

101. 123. Elijah, w. Mary Jones, r. N. ; i. Leonard, Jan. 3, '96, d. Apl. 26, '96 ; 

ii. Elijah, Feb. 13, '97, d. Apl. 25, '99; in. Leonard, Mar. 29, '99, m. 

Allin, rm. to Penn ; iv. Mary, Mar. 21, '01, m. Richards, r. N.; 

v. Caroline, Nov. 1, '03, m. John Miller, r. Holl. ; vi. Rebecca, Sept. 24, 

'05, m. Hartwell, r. N. ; vn. Elijah, Nov. 14, '07, m. Mary Battle, 

r. Dover ; vm. Calvin, m. Slack, r. N. ; ix. Amos, A. M., Har. Col., 

m. Phillips, r. Providence, a teacher ; x. Jones, m. Mary Bacon, r. N. 

102. 130. Wm, w. Hannah Leland, m. 1802, had baptized at S. ; i. Lendall, Oct. 

16, 1803; ii. Prudence Leland, Nov. 17, '05; in. Wm. Kitridge, June 

26, '08; iv. Charles, June 24, '10; v. Eveline, Oct. 27, '11; vi. Han- 
nah, June 3, '14 ; vn. Susan ; vm. George ; ix. Emory. 

135. Wm. Perry, jun., ? w. Keziah Drury, m. 1801, r. Natick ; I. Harriet, May 
10, 1802; ii. Mary, June 7, '04; in. Edwin, Oct. 11, '06; iv. Asa 
Drury, Nov. 12, '08 ; v. Abel, m. Miranda Adams, r. Holl. ; vi. Albert ; 
vn. Otis ; vm. Isaac ; ix. Calvin ; x. Keziah. 

107. ? 143. Abel Perry, 3d, " br. of Samuel," m. Mitta Morse, 1806, r. N. had 
i. Asa Ellis, Sep. 9, 1806. 

21. 145. Daniel Perry, w. Mary, d. Sept. 17, 1756 ; 2d w. Thankful Morse, m. 
1758, at Medf.j r. N„ had i. Sarah, Nov. 23, 1748 ; n. Joseph, Mar. 12, 
'49-50 ; in. Abigail, Sept. 22, 1751 ; iv. Mary, Sept. 1, '56, d. Dec. 27, 
'56. 



14. 147. James, m. Elizabeth Death, and s. a short distance fr. upper Depot, in 

IIol., and had 
151. 148. i. Abner, Col., Jan. 17, 1728--9; n. Elizabeth, Oct. 25, '31. 
157. 149. in. James, Aug. 12, '34; iv. Martha, Sept. 18, '36; v. Ruth, Oct. 

15, '39 ; vi. Barak, Aug. 11, '43 m. Submit Sprague, Feb. 10, '68. 



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148. 151. Abncr, Col., served as commander of a regiment in an expedition to 

R. I., 1780 ; and was long a leading citizen of H., and her representative in 
G-. C. ; m. Mary Adams, Jan. 28, 1752, and had, in H., i. Nathan, Oct. 
31, '52, m. Lydia Parker, '7-'!, and had at Ilopk., 

i. Nathan, Feb. 28, '80 ; ir. Lydia, '82 ; in. Fanny, '84 ; iv. John, 

Feb. 24, '80 ; v. Timothy, Sept. 14, '88. 
ir. Ruth, Apl. 15, '54; in. Abner, Jly. 17, '55, m. Anne Phippsj 
iv. Moses, May 28, '58, m. "Hannah Adams, '78 : v. Eli, June 10, '02 ; 
vi. Adams, who m. Anna Wait, Aug. 28, '90, inherited the homestead, had 

i. Barak, Aug. 21, 1793 ;" n. Abner, Jly. 24, '95 ; in. Polly, Jly. 

15, '97 ; iv. Emery, Jly. 25, '99, and others. 

149. 157. James, m. Sarah Littlefield, Feb. 24, 1757, and r. -} m. S. of the Upper 

Depot in H., sold to John Harding, and rm. to Charlton ; had at H. 

i. James, Dec. 22, 1757 ; II. Eleazer, Feb. 2, 'GO; in. Elizabeth, Dec. 

10, '61 ; iv. Elihu, Jly. 23, '64 ; and v. Alpheus, rs. C. 

8. 161. Eleazer, jun , m. Mary Johnson, June 14, 1732, s. in H., and had 

i. Eleazer, Apl. 12, 1733 ; n. Asa, Aug. 13, 1735 ; in. Lois, Sept. 9, '37 ; 
iv. Reuben, Oct. 26, '39 ; v. Ezra, Mar. 4, '41-2. 

160. Ephraim Perry, ? w. Sarah Wood, m. Jly. 11, 1771, r. N., had i. Geo., 
Feb. 22, '72 ; n. Mehetabel, Aug. 22, '73 ; in. David, Jan. 13, '76 ; 
iv. Sarah, Dec. 24, '83. 

1G9. Ebenezer Perry,? w. Mary, r. N., had i. Chs., May 21, 1808. 

171. Obadiah Perry,? w. Katherine, r. N., had i. Obadiah, June 19, 1747. 



1- Solomon PhipS, of Charlestown, took the freeman's oath, May IS, 
1642, and had by w. Elizabeth, a dg. Elizabeth, born 1643. He d. Jly. 25, 
1671, aged 52 : 

2. Solomon Phips, jun., of C, who m. Mary Danforth, b. Jly. 20, 1G50, 
dg. of Dep. Gov. Tho. D. He took the freeman's oath, May 11, 1G71 ; and 
d. suddenly, saying he was bewitched. This, the Baptists regarded as a 
judgment upon him for the sin of having purchased land taken from one of 
their communion, and sold for the payment of a fine. 

3. Samuel Phipps, who kept the Grammar School at Charlestown, in 1678. 
. 4. Thomas Phips, who m. Eleanor Cutt, at Portsmouth, N. II., 1699. 

5. James Phips, from Bristol, Eng., settled as a shipwright, at Pemacpiid, 
near the mouth of Kennebec R., Me., prior to 1650. He had 20 children, 
5 dgs. and 21 sons, one of whom was Sir Win. P., Gov., b. Feb. 2, 1650 ; m. 
Mary Spencer, dg. of Capt. Roger S., and the widow of John Hull, raercht., of Bos. 
who m. for her 3d. hus. Peter Sargent, Esq., Oct. 9, 1701. She had no children 
by Gov. Phips. Spencer Bonnet, son of her sis. Margaret, took the name of Phips, 
and was adopted by her, and became Lt. Gov. of Mass. ; while the Gov. adopted 
John Phips, the son of his brother John, and promised him the largest share of his 
estate. In his 2d. will, (see Suff. Prob.) dated Dec. 13, 1G93, designed to quell 
domestic discord at a time when he must have been the least able to endure it, 
he gave all of his estate, real and personal, to his wife, Mary, to dispose of as she 
should sec fit ; and if she should die without a will, then all should descend to the 
adopted son, Spencer Phips alias Bonnet, and the heirs of his body. But if said 
Spencer P. should die without issue, then whatever of his estate might be left, should 



196 phips. 

be equally shared ; one-half by his sisters, Mary and Margaret, and the heirs of his 
sis. Ann, or their heirs ; and the other half by the heirs of his -wife Mary ; reserving 
out of the whole estate £100 N. Eng. currency, -which his relations and the relations 
of his wife should cause to be paid to John Phips, son to his brother, John P., de- 
ceased, or to his heirs, adding, " if this clause be not repealed by my xvifc afore- 
said."* Dame Mary Phips was appointed executrix, and a letter of admin, was 
granted, June 13, 1095. Sir Wm. deceased at London, Feb. 18, 1694-5. 

" At the E. end of the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, near the N. E. angle, is a 
pretty white marble monument, adorned with an urn between two cupids, the figure 
of a ship, and also a boat at sea, with persons in the water ; these beheld by a winged 
eye, all done in basso relievo; also seven medals, as that of K. Wm. and Q. Mary ; 
some with Spanish impressions, as the castle, cross-potent, &c. ; and likewise the 
figures of a sea-quaclrant, cross-staff, &c, and this incription : 

Near this place is interred the body of Sir Wm. Phipps, Knight ; who in the year 
1G87, by his great industry, discovered among the rocks, near the banks of Bahama, 
on the N. side of Hispaniola, a Spanish plate ship, which had been under water 44 
years, out of which he took, in gold and silver, to the value of £300,000 sterling ; 
and with a fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it all to London, where it was di- 
vided between himself and the rest of the adventurers : For which great service he 
was knighted, by his then Majesty, King James the 2d ; and afterward, by the 
command of his present Majesty, and at the request of the principal inhabitants of 
New England, he accepted of the government of the Massachusetts, in which he con- 
tinued to the time of his death ; and discharged his trust with that zeal for the inter- 
est of his country, and with so little regard to his own private advantage, that he 
justly gained the good esteem and affections of the greatest and best part of the 
inhabitants of that Colony. Here are also his arms depicted : i. e. sable, a trefoil 
slipt, within an orl of eight Mullets Argent." This was erected by Lady Phipps, 
and it is worthy of remark, that the place of his birth and age at death, are omitted. 
The insertion of these might have affected her future prospects. [Gen'l Ptegr.] 

G. John Phips who settled at Wrentham, before 1700, was the nephew of Sir 
Wm. Phipps and his adopted son. A tradition, deemed in this instance per- 
fectly reliable, declares that Gov. Phipps, Dec. 18, 1G93, before embarking for 
Eng., made his will, giving his son, as he had previously promised, a large share 
of his vast estate, to which Lady Phipps made such violent opposition as to in- 
duce the ex-Gov. to destroy this will and make one to her mind ; he promis- 
ing privately to make another like the first as soon as he should reach Eng. 
On his arrival, he was much harassed, and died without fulfilling his prom- 
ise. Lady P. in administering on his estate, offered John a pittance of what 
had been promised. This he spurned — purchased a farm at Wrentham, [pr. 
N. part] where he seems to have bad 

I. Elizabeth, who m., May 20, 1719, Nathaniel Hill, of Medway ; • 

II. Sarah, who m., 1728-33, as a 2d wife, Samuel Daniel, of Wed. ; 

in. Margaret, who m., Dec. 1 9, 1727, Dea. Nathaniel Rockwood, of Wrentham ; 
iv. Anna, who m., Jan., 1739-40, as a 2d wife, Jona. Partridge, of Med. 
8. 7. v. John, b., 1G96, d. Oct. 10, 174G, m. Hannah Bullen. 



7. 8. John Phips, jun., in 1720, removed to Sherborn, and settled on a farm in^ 
herited by his wife from her father, half a mile S. W. of the Common, on the 

* This woman, who had not scrupled in the absence of her husband to act as Gov., did repeal 
the last clause, and the whole of Sir Wm's. estate went to Spencer P. ; though John P. had been 
with his uncle in that adventurous voyage by which it had been acquired. But the above will 
was not intended for execution. [See next article.] For the further history of Sir Wm. P., see 
Cotton Mather's Magnaha ; Robert Calif's More Wonders, &c, and Drake's His. of Bos. 



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road to Holliston, and lived at the foot of the hill where David Sanger re- 
sides. To him was committed the sacred trust of taking care of the sanc- 
tuary. He was chosen assessor 1735, tithingman 1734-5, '45-6, surveyor 
'3G-7, selectman '36-7 and '39-40, and sealer of weights and measures 
1738-9 until his death. In 1730 he drew 18£ acres in Douglas. He d. 
Oct, 16, 174G, in his 50th year. He m. Hannah Bullen, b. June 28, 1697, 
" d. Apl. 4, 1743, aged 46," dg. of Elisha B., by w. Hannah Metcalf, and 
grd. dg. of Dea. Samuel B., of Medfd., by w. Mary Morse, dg. of Samuel, and 
the sis. of Col. Morse, of Cromwell's army. Mr. P. and wife were interred 
in the Central Burying Ground, where neat headstones mark their "•rave. 
They had I. fm, Aug. 28, 1718, at Medway, d. yg. 

13. 8. ir. Wm, Bev. A. M., Apl. 17, 1720, d., agd. ab. 9*0 ; in. John, Feb. 18, 
'21-2, d., June 12, '22; i\. John, May 13, '23, d., aged 88, was reed, to 
full communion in the chh. of S., Oct. 2, '43, m. Martha (Fairbanks) Mason 
dg. of Capt F., b. Aug. 2, '24, m. Dec. 22, '43, r. Brookfield. 

30. 10. \\ Jedediah, Mar. 11, '24-5, d. in his 95th year; vi. Moses, June 28, 
'27, d. j'oung. 

32. 11. vn. Aaron, Dea., Jan. 12, '29-30, d. with smallpox, at H., Oct. 18, '92; 
vin. Hannah, Mar. 7, '31-2, d.,aged 97; m. Sylvester Plympton, of Medfield' 

32. 12. ix. Jason, Esq., Oct. 19, '34, d. May 8, 1817, aged 83 ; x. Samuel, Mar. 
1, '3G-7, d. young; xi. David, Oct. 25, '39, d. young. 

8. 13. Wm., Bev. A. M., as well as his brothers, must have been by nature a 
remarkable man. His genius for the acquisition of languages was such, that 
with the little aid of his time, he is said to have mastered no less than 12 ; a 
circumstance thought indicative of a descent from literary ancestors. New Sherborn 
as a District had been called, having been erected into a town by the name of Doug- 
las ; and " Dr. Wm. Douglas, a Scotchman, of Boston, and large proprietor of D° 
having settled £500, O. T., on a free school, and £50 per annum for seven years on 
the first minister of D., besides other bounties;" and a chh. having been fathered 
there, Mr. P. received a call, and was ordained, Dec. 16, 1747, 4 years after bfs recep- 
tion to full communion in the chh. at S., 1 year and 5 months after his graduation 
at II. ('., and "less than 7 years after he first began grammar learning." Bev. 
Samuel Porter, the godly pastor of S., preached on the occasion ; and in commen- 
dation of the pastor elect, said : " We of the town and chh. from whence he came do 
bless God who raised up one of our children with so blameless a character at home 
and abroad, and who we have so much reason to hope will be a rich blessin" to you 
and to the world in his day. And indeed, if I should boast to you somewhat of his 
parts and acquirements, considering the very short time he has had for improve- 
ment, I should be in no fear that he would make me ashamed, having had oppor- 
tunity to see the uncommon progress he made while under instruction. You must 
not think it hard, brethren, if I am very free and earnest with you on his account 
whom I call my son for the love I bear to him and the share I have had in his edu- 
cation." The death of his father had lately subjected a numerous family to orphan- 
age. Wm., as the senior child, became to them a father, and they removed, most if 
not all of them to D., where some of them remained until about the time of his resig- 
nation. In his life and doctrine he seems never to have disappointed the fond hopes 
entertained at his ordination. But he was settled too near B. I., to find an orderly, 
ministerial people, and in too poor a town to realize an adequate salary. Ho was 
starved into toil and trade for support; and afier a ministry of about 20 years less 
barren than the engagements of the people, he retired to Oxford, now Auburn with 
talents so improved for business as to compensate for want of salary ; was appointed 
a magistrate ; espoused the cause of freedom ; acted as moderator of county conven- 



198 phips. 

tions ; wrote thrilling addresses to the people, and contributed to arouse and guide 

that spirit of resistance which achieved our independence. He m. Abigail , 

who d. Jly. 31, 1820, aged 92, at Oxfd., and had 

I. Susanna, who m. Craig, r. Auburn ; n. Moses, who probably d. at 

Oxford, Feb. 9, 1813, aged 46; Sylvester Phips, now of Oxford, Moses P., 
of Webster, and Calvin P., who d. 1822, aged, 32, at Oxford, are supposed to 
have been his descendants. 



10. 30. Jedediah Phips had a rare sensibility to beauties in language, creation, 
and Providence. I visited him in 1811, then in his 94th year, when the 
faculties of his mind had a vigor that many lose at GO. He had never been 
sick in his life ; could describe the constellations as easily as the fields of his farm, 
repeat quotations correctly from the classics, and give the names of his former 
acquaintance who had seen and conversed with Peregrine White. He dwelt much 
upon the divine goodness, past and present, and anticipated its enjoyment forever. 
Though professedly a laboring man, he had stored his mind by a habit of spending 
his minutes of relaxation in reading ; and he had long been the oracle of his vicinity, 
and was well known in all the bordering towns. 

He first settled in Douglas, from whence he removed to Sherborn, May 5, 1768, 
with his wife and four children, and settled on the W. side of Peter's Hill, and on 
the E. side of the N. road to Fram. In middle life he had a good landed estate. 
He became a zealous whig of '76 ; was moderator of town meetings '78 and '79, 
selectman '73 and '80, and with Pres. Lock and Hon. Daniel Whitney, chosen on a 
standing committee of correspondence for 1774 and '75. He was a member of the 
Co. convention, held at Concord, 1779 ; and on committees to instruct the repre- 
sentative of S., in '77, and to hire soldiers ; and one of a committee of safety, '80. 
The records of the General Court at the beginning of the struggle, when the army 
was almost without ammunition, state that, " Whereas Mr. Jedediah Phips, of Sher- 
born, has produced to this Court several pounds of genuine saltpetre, of his own 
manufacturing, and given full evidence of his knowledge in discovering earth 
impregnated therewith, as well as of his abilities to manufacture said commodity ; 
and has also consented to enter into the employment of the government for improv- 
ing the art and business aforesaid, and engaged to communicate his useful discov- 
eries therein : Therefore resolved, that the said Jedediah Phips be taken into the 
service of this Colony, as aforesaid, until the 15th of Dec. next ; and he is hereby 
directed to repair to Newburyport as soon as may be, and use his utmost efforts with 
Doct. Whiting, Mr. Baker, and Capt. John Peck, a committee of this Court for the 
purpose aforesaid, or either of them, to make further improvements in tbe art of 
manufacturing said -commodity, and for every clay which he shall be absent from 
home and employed agreeable to the direction of this resolve, ho shall be allowed and 
paid out of the public Treasury, the sum of 6s. per day for bis service, and 20s. 
per week, to defray his expenses, as already provided for said Committee." 

He m. Sarah Learned, b. 1731-2, d. Mar. 6, 1S10, dg. of Capt. Edward 
L., of S., by w. Sarah Leland, (dg. of Ens. Henry Leland, by w. Mary 
Morse) and grd. dg. of Dea. Benoni L., by w. Sarah Fanning, and gr. grd. 
dg. of Isaac L., of Woburn, by w. Mary Stearns, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of 
Win. L., of Ch'stown. Mr. P. and wife were received by letter from Doug, 
into the ebb. in S., Oct., 1769. They had, 
48. 31. r. John, b. at Douglas, m. Hannah Cooledge ; ii. Jedediah, b. at D., d. 
1847, a. 88, at Digby, Me., was a teacher of music and of a grammar 
school; in. Jesse, who was drowned, m. Elizabeth King, r. S., and Fred- 
erick, N 15., had I. Wm. K '., m. Hannah Coon, rs. Fram. ; II. Rufus, 
(d ), r. Chs'town, m. Elvira Copps ; in. Mary, m. John Coon, r. Bos. 



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iv. Sarah, May 15, 176G, m. Henry Leland, of Sherb. ; v. Persis, Aug. 
16, 1768, bap. Oct. 9, '68, m. Daniel Sanger, of Fram ; VI. Polly, July 8, 
1770, bap. Aug. 20, '70, m. Tlio. Newell, son of Commis. And. N., of S., 

and had i. Joseph, '90; ir. Geo., '91 ; in. Andrew, '93; and was 

grandmother to llev. F. R. Newell, of Brewster ; 
vii. Anna, bap. Nov. 29, '78, m. Hon. Calvin Sanger, of S., and now 
living here, giving promise of great longevity, having by her unimpaired 
memory greatly aided in recovering this genealogy. For her family see 
Sanger. 



11. 32. Aaron, Dea., after the death of his father was apprenticed to Dea. James 
Russel, of Holl., as a blacksmith; and during his time, 1747—51, planted 
the magnificent elms in front of Col. Whiting's house, one third of a mile 
N. of Hoi. common. He purchased, at different times, of the heirs of 
Aaron Morse, the farm now owned by Eli Phips, one half m. S. "W. of Hoi. 
centre, on which he settled and spent his days. He was a superior man ; 
distinguished for independence and strength of mind, soundness of judgment, 
enterprise, tact, and energy in worldly pursuits. He was rather acquisitive, 
yet ever just ; and if he sometimes stood for his rights where others would 
have quailed, it was because they were rights ; and he himself lawyer and 
advocate enough to maintain them, as he did triumphantly. "He was a 
natural debater, could speak with rhetorical propriety and logical force, 
whether in town meetings, civil or ecclesiastical courts, or before the Gov. 
and Council. He often acted as draftsman, and much of his neat, unam- 
biguous chirography exists in ancient wills, &c. He had a taste for the 
beautiful in nature and art, as his adorned and spacious mansion continued 
to testify within my own recollection. He had a high sense of character, 
never sought popularity, and " knew," as he said, " no distinction between 
inferiors and equals so long as both retained their self-respect and integrity 
of character." 

He was chosen Dea. of the chh. in H., May 2, 1766, and also treasurer ; 
was greatly respected for his consistent deportment, and beloved for his 
tender piety ; a most excellent neighbor, much relied upon for advice and 
aid in emergencies, and given to hospitality, the abuse of which cost him his 
life and the community a severe loss. He d. with the small pox, contracted 
in receiving from a guest an infected bundle from a pest house. He m. 
Mar. 17, 1757, Zeruiah Haven, b. Feb. 18, 1736, d. Dec. 8, '80, dg. of 
John H., by w. Mary Bullard, and grd. dg. of Joseph II., by w. Martha 

, of Fram. ; and gr. grd. dg. of Moses H., fr. Lynn, to F., by w. Mary 

Ballord, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Pucbard Haven, fr. Eng., to Lynn, 1645. 
He m. 2d, wid. Deborah Day, fr. Mend., 1781, a lady of superior talents, 
yet subject to fits and derangement, who survived him. He had 
I. Samuel, Dec. 11, 1757, m. Sarah Chamberlain, s. in Hopk., had 

I. Aaron; n. Nathan; Hi. David; iv. Moses ; all r. in Hopk. ; 
ii. Aaron, Dec. 11, '59, d. yg. 

44. 321 Iir . Aaron, Feb. 11, '61, m. Hannah Bullard; 
iv. Anne, Dec. 9, '62, m. Abner Perry, of H. ; 
v. John, Oct. 8, '65, d. about 1820, r. a mercht. at Pomfret, Ct. ; 
vi. Moses, Aug. 24, '67, m. May 17, '87, Hopestill Day, at H. ; 

327. 82§. vii. Joseph, June 24, '69, d. May 6, 1842, m. Mary Fames; 

viii. Mary, June 24, '69, also and d. yg, ; ix. Wm., Dea., Sep. 3, '71 ; 
x. Mary, Dec. 25, '73, d. Sep. 26, '75. 



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32§. 32$. Joseph Phipps at his birth was less than one fourth of the size of his 
twin sister, a circumstance however that dwarfed neither mind nor body. 
On the contrary his growth, and the early development of his intellect, and a 
taste for books, induced the aspiring parents, like others of their time, to 
select him as the son destined for the college and ministry ; as though God 
would call whom they chose ; or they could read the divine purpose in the 
capacity and bias of an unconverted boy. But he was destined to another 
sphere ; and the family, whom he moulded as no minister, pent-up or absent, 
could have done, may yet demonstrate that it was probably one of greater use- 
fulness. The sudden death of his excellent mother, and the unfortunate 2d 
marriage of his father, interrupted his course, and he exchanged his books for a 
musket in the army that suppressed the rebellion of '87. He married very 
early in life the youthful and only daughter of Capt. Daniel Eames, of 
Hopk., the patriot soldier of 1775-83; and took charge of the farm at 
Phipps Hill. After the decease of his father and erratic step-mother, he 
- sold his interest in the homestead, and removed with a handsome property to 
Lee, N. Y. Here fortune smiled as if she would give edge to ensuing 
frowns. His agricultural pursuits were successful, and brought him the 
means of purchasing the unoccupied site of Utica, and but for the perfidy of 
the man to whom he loaned his money, it had been his, just before he saw a 
city piled upon it. " Bitter disappointment, unproductive seasons, and 
unforeseen reverses left him in a few years with a numerous young family, 
dependent alone upon his energies and those of his persevering wife for their 
support and education." Still he did not despair, nor remit his exertions to 
mould their minds and hearts for usefulness and honor. For years he strug- 
gled with poverty and its temptations without ever compromising his honor 
or integrity. At length he removed to Orleans Co., N. Y., and during the 
last 9 years of his life resided at the Phipps Female Seminary, in Albion, 
which bis daughters by their enterprise and energy had established. Here 
lie d. May 6, 1842, having lived to see all his children but one (and he 
since added,) walking in the truth which he had inculcated; and nobly en- 
gaged in transmitting its influence to others. 

Mr. P. seems to have inherited characteristics of his father's race. He 
loved knowledge and was a great general reader. He reverenced and adorned 
religion. As a husband and father he was faithful and kind ; and as a man, 
uniformly conscientious. He was much respected by my brethren in the minis- 
try, one of whom, Rev. Dr. Frost, pronounced him among the best theolo- 
gians of the day. " He had a very retentive memory, rare argumentative 
powers, an easy flow of words and a calm self-control, which secured him 
advantages in discussion ; and though ever reluctant to engage in religious 
debates as unprofitable, yet when forced to do so his antagonists were sure to 
feel his strength." He m. Mary Eames, dg. of Capt. Daniel E., of Hopk., 
by w. Mary Cutler, (dg. of Jona. C, by w. Abigail Clark,) and grd. dg. of 
Daniel E , of H, by w. Silence Leland, and gr. grd. dg. of Nath'l E., of 
Fram., and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Tho. E., of Sherborn. She still survives, 
aged 83, r. with her dgs. They had, 

i. Nancy, Nov. 4, 1788, rs. at Albion, a late assistant in Phipps Fem. Sem. 
ii. Zeruiah, Dec. 3, 1791, d. yg. ; 
in. Mary, Apl. 25, '94. rs. A., a late assistant in do. 

iv. Zeruiah, May 27, '9G, m. Eber. Ingalsbe, Jan. 10, 1819, rs a wid. at 
Camillus, N. Y., has 6 sons 2 dgs. ; one a teacher in Phipps Fem. Sem. 
v. Sarah, Feb. 25, 1800, m. Macy Pratt, rs. Eagle Harbor, N. Y., has 2 
sons and 3 dgs., one of whom is also a teacher in the same Sem. 



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vi. Aaron, Mar. 10, 1803, m. Oct. 23, '31, Judith Pratt, rs. on a farm in. 

Barre, near Albion, on which he and his father s. ab. 1825, has 3 sons and 

1 dg. ; vir. Joseph, Oct. 14, 1805; 

vin. Mahala, July 10, 1807, m. June, 1836, Hon. Samuel Anderson, rs. 

Cassopohs, Mich., has 2 sons and 3 dgs. at school at Rochester and Albion ; 

ix. Caroline, Mar. 21, 1812, the founder of the Fem. Sera, at Albion, in 

acknowledgment of whose services the institution received its corporate 

name, m. Henry Achilles, Feb. 14, 1839, had a dg. who d. a. 1 yr. 3 mo. ; 

x. Sophonia, May 23, 1814, succeeded Caroline as Princp. of the Sem., m. 

James L. Hodge, D. D., Sep. 1847, rs. Brooklyn, N. Y., has 2 dgs. 

xi. Wm. W., June 10, 1818, m. '50, Mary, rs. Padueah, Kg., ? has 2 chd. 

12. 33. Jason Phipps, m. Eebecca Adams, fr. S., a descendant fr. Henry A., of 
Braintree, who d. Nov. 21, 1792, in "her 70th year?" 2d, wid. Sarah 
Palmer, Nov. 20, '98, s. in Killingly, now Thompson, Ct., had, i. Hannah, 

oc oo ! 23 ' 17 ° 6 ' at Sherborn ; "• J^on, July 23, 1758, d. Sep. 5, '59; 

db. S3. n§. Jason, June 23, 'GO; in. Moses, Nov. 29; 61; iv. David, Nov. 9, 

40. 35. v. David, Aug. 3, 'G8. 



33. 36. Jason Phipps, jun., m. Mary , r. Thompson, Ct. ; 

i. Polly, June 11, 1788, m. Wm. Patrick, May 6, 1812; 
58. 37. ii. Payton Randolph, July 29, '89, m. Clarissa, r. T. ; m. Salem, Nov. 

25, '90 ; iv. Rebecca, Aug. 11, '92 ; v. Persis, June 18, '94 ; 

vi. Hannah, May 28, '96 ; vn. Mary Ann, Jan. 28, '99 : 
62. 39. vin. Jason, July 15, 1802. 

35. 40. David Phipps, m. Betsey , r. T., had, i. Paraclete, Jan. 1, 1795, 

at Dudley, d. Oct. 27, '97, at T. ; n. Paraclete Goldsmith, 1801, d. 1802 • 
in. Helena Guthrie, May 8, 1804; iv. Elmon Cammcn, Aug. 1 '06 • 
v. David Hartley, Oct. 7, '07; vi. Albialban. Mar. 11, '10; vn. Frances 
Betsey, Sep. 15, '12; vin. Lewis Luzerne, Nov. 28, '14; 

321 44 Aaron, m. Hannah Bullard, dg. of Asa, of H., r. H, had, i. Eli, June 
16, l/8o, m. Betsey Whiting, b. Dec. 28, '89, in. May 27, 1813, (d.), 
inherited the homestead, and had, i. Joann W., Sep. 11, 1814 m Elijah 
Kingsbury; n. Aaron, July 16, '1G, m. Elouisa Fuller, and had War- 
ren Lovenng, Jan. 19, '55; m. Wm., Mar. 17, '19, rs. unm. at H. ; 
iv. Sarah Ann W., Feb. 14, '23, rs. H. ; v. Martin Whiting, May 
-1, 2o, m. Cornelia Robinson ; vi. Cornelia A., Feb. 24 '30 m 
Warren Lovering, Esq., A. M., of Med.; 
ii. Joseph, Sep. 13, '87 ; in. Zeruiah, Nov. G, '90, d. July 30, '97 • 
iy. Aaron, Nov. 23, '93, d. aged ab. 12 ; v. Hannah, Dec. 10, '97, m. 
Benj. Rockwood, of Frank. 

31. 48. John, m. Hannah Cooledge, dg. of Joseph C, by w. Elizth. Frost, and 
grd dg. of Isaac C, Esq., of S., by w. Hannah Morse, (dg. of Capt. Jo. 

M.), and gr. grd. dg. of John C, of S., by w. Mary , and gr. gr. grd. 

dg. of Ens. John C, of Watertown, by w. Hannah Livermore and "r gr. 
?^£ rd " I?' ° f Hn ' John C -' of W " who took the freeman's oath, May 25, 

o, i~ Q o G *£?}' ^ 18 ' 1761 « m - Au S- 2 ' 178l > had > T - Betsey, Feb. 
21, 1 1 82, m. Richard Gammage, of Hopk. ; 

ii. Sally, June 7, '83, m. Joseph Sanger, of Sh. ; 
26 



202 PIERCE, PIKE, PLIMTON. 

52. 49. in. Sylvanus, Jan. 16, '85, m. Anna Winch, 2d, Polly Grout, and 3d, 

Mehetabel Cooledge ; iv. Wm., Feb. 4, '87, m. Moulton ; 2d, Harriet 

Cooledge, r. Frk. ; v. Persis, June 2, '89, m. Moses Hill, of Med. ; 
vi. Polly, May 19, '91, m. Faxton Dean, r. Bos.; vn. Hannah, Sep. 26, 
'93, m. Lewis Holbrook, of S. ; vin. Anna, Dec. 24, '95, d. with dropsy, 
aged 16 ; ix. Martha, Jan. 16, '98, d. Nov. 8, 1805 ; x. Jedediah, Sep. 2, 
1800, r. Wrenth. ; xi. Eunice, Nov. 25, '02, m. Walter Holbrook, of San- 
gerville, Me. ; xn. Martha, Nov. 10, '05, m. Walker, r. Lawrence ; 

49. 52. Silvanus, w. Anna Winch, rs. Fram., had, i. George, Apl. 13, 1802 ; 
ii. Sally, Nov. 25, '03, m. Luther Metcalf, Esq., of Med; 
in. Charles, Feb. 6, '06, r. unm. at Cincinnati, O. ; iv. Joseph, June 8, 

'08, m. Hellen Bell, of F., r. F. ; v. Ann, m. Col. Hastings, r. F. ; 

vi. Gardner, m. , r. Cincinnati ; vn. Harriet, m. Geo. Richard- 
son, r. F. ; vin. Mary, m. Horatio Read, r. N. York. 

37. 58. Payton Randolph, w. Clarissa, r. T., had, i. Clarissa, Oct. 22, 1814 ; 

ii. Benj. Fairbanks, Jan. 3, 1816, r. T. ; in. Edward Davis, June 26, 
'17 ; iv. Lucretia, June 25, '19 ; v. Abigail Davis, June 5, 20 ; vi. Wm., 
Randolph, Aug. 24, '21 ; vn. Zeruiah, dg., May 3, '26 ; vin. Albigence 
Waldo, Apl. 26, '27. 

39. 62. Jason, " 3d," m. Town, r. T. ; 

i. Mary H., Nov. 27, 1831 ; n. Betsey C, July 1, '33. 



Nathaniel Pierce, w., Triphena, had in H., i. Sarah, Feb. 17, 1788; 
ii. Nathaniel, Nov. 4, '89 ; in. Kezia, Mar. 30, '91 ; iv. James, Mar. 21, 
'92 ; v. Kezia Adams, Oct. 20, '93 ; vi. Polly ; vn. John, Jan. 4, '98. 



1. Samuel Pike, pr. s. of James, of Fram., and grd. s. of Jeremiah P., 
and gr. grd. s. of James P., of Reading, came from Hopk. to H., m. Abigail 
Morse, dg. of Aaron, of H., and d. at Straton, Vt., a. 90. He had in H., 
I. Abigail, May 24, 1752, m. Cephas Thayer, of Bell. ; n. Sarah, b. 1753, 
m. Paul Gould, and was in good health and of sound memory, Oct., 1848, 
r. Milford ; in. Mary, June 4, '55, m. Boice Kimball, of Pelham ; 
iv. Rachel, Oct. 7, ,'57, long resided with Rev. Mr. Sanford, of Med., 
andd. um. ; 

v. Samuel, Oct. 27, '59 ; 

vi. Reuben, Feb. 9, '62, enlisted, and pr. d. in the army ; 
. vn. Aaron, May 20, '64, d. at Hoi. ab. 1850; 

vin. Moses, Dec. 28, '67 ; ix. Ruth, m. Josiah Danforth, of Bos. ; 

x. Oliver, who removed to the West. 



4. 7. Aaron, m. Anna Pike, fr. Hopk., 1787, had in H., i. Aaron, Apl. 16, 
1789 ; ii. Anna, May 8, '91 , in. Elijah, Nov. 5, '92 ; iv. Joanna, 
Jan. 8, '95; v. Amilly, Apl. 4, '97; vi. Loisa, Mar. 10, '99. 

10. Timothy Pike, w., Abigail, had at H., i. Asa, Nov. 20, 1770 ; 
ii. Chloe, Feb. 28, '75 ; in. Timothy, Aug. 25, '79. 



E. G. PlimtOD., son of Calvin P., by w. Caroline Cutler, and grd. son of 
Job P., of Med., m. Susan L. Richardson, Dec. 11, 1845, from Groton, and 
s. in H., as a printer, ab. 1850, has Helen M. and Susie M. 



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Nathl. Polly, w., Anna, had at H., i. Nathaniel, May 23, 1786 ; 
ii. Anne, Mar. 15, '88 ; in. Nabby, Oct. 20, '91. 



1. Aaron Pond, of H., m. Elia Bridges, Sep. 10, 1793. 

2. Aaron Pond, m. Elizabeth Jones, Nov. 2, 1759, had, i. Milcha, Aug. 
24, 'GO, at II. ; n. Aaron, Jly. 10, 'G3, m. Silence Leland, and had, 

i. Silva, Jan. 9, '87; n. Lyman, Jly. 1, '91 ; ill. Preston, Mar. 17, 
'93 ; iv. Philip, Apl. 19, '95 ; v. Betsey Jones, Oct. 6, '98 ; 
ill. Theoder, Oct. 5,'G5; iv. Abnor, Aug. 8, '68 ; v. Zadock, Nov. 20, '71, 
had, i. Silva, June 9, '87; n. Lyman, Jly. 1, '91. 

4. Israel Pond, w., Dorcas, had, i. Dorcas, June 9, 1740, at H. 



5. Eli Pond, w., Huldah, had, i. Hannah, Sep. 27, 1765, at H. 

6. Paul Pond, w., Mehetabel, had, i. Simeon, Apl. 4, 1787, at H. 

7. Jonu. Pond, w., Polly , had, Alvira, Dec. 5, 1799, at H. 



Rev. Samuel Porter, fr. Hadley, the 3d Pastor of the chh. in S., appears 
to have been a very highly esteemed and devoted pastor. He grad. at H. 
C, 1730 ; was ordained, Oct. 23, 173--, and d. Sep. 17, '58, a. 59. He 
m. Mary Cooledge, of Cambridge, Oct. 20, 1735, had, i. Samuel, Oct. 27, 
1736 ; ii. Mary, Aug. 22, '38, m. Rev. Samuel Locke, '60, her father's 
successor in S., and inherited the place now owned by Calvin Sanger, jun., 
where she d. 1788 ; in. Rebecca, Jan. 21, '40--1 ; iv. Samuel, Sep. 4, '43 ; 
v. Samuel, Jly. 29, '45 ; all of whom, except M., seem to have d. yg. 



1- ThO- Pratt, of Watertown, who was admitted freeman, 1652, came 

to S., where he, as Tho., senr., had land assigned him, in 1682. He d. 

1692, leaving a wid. Susanna. He had, b. pr. at W., 
12. 2. i. Tho., b. ab. 1656; 
15. 3. n. John ; 
17. 4. in. Ebenezer ; iv. Joseph; v. Philip; vi. David; vn. Jabez ; 

vin. Nathaniel ; ix. Abial ; x. Ephraim ; xi. Jona. 

2. 12. Tho., jun., had land assigned him in S., 1682, m. Lydia Parmenter, 

June 5, 1681, s. near the "W., where Tho. Hunt rs., and had, i. Tho., Jly. 
16, 1682 ; ii. Lydia, Jan. 15, '84; in. Daniel, Mar. 24, '87; iv. Abigail, 
Oct. 11, '92; v. Deborah, Sep. 15, '94. 

3. 15. John, w. Ruth, had at S., i. John, Nov. 27, 1691. 

4. 17. Ebenezer, w. Mary, s. near the W. in S., i. Sarah, Nov. 7, 1693 ; 
25. 18. ii. Ebenezer, June 13, '95; in. Jacob, Nov. 7, '97; 

21. 20. iv. Gershom, Sep. 18, 1702 ; v. Mercy, Dec. 8, 1702. 

20. 21. Gershom, m. Abigail Rice, Jly. 3, 1729, and had in S., 

27. 22. i. Jacob, Oct. 3, 1735; n. Abigail, Apl. 3, '38; in. Ebenezer, May 

13, '41 ; iv. Mary, Nov. 10, '43, d. yg. ; v. Anna, Mar. 24, '45-6, m. 

Micha Leland ; vi. Sarah, May 10, '48, m. Edwd. Learned, jun., '73, r. 

Sturbridge ; vn. Mary, May 28, '50 ; vin. Gershom, Aug. 20, '53. 



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PRENTISS 



18. 25. Ebenezer, w. Mary, had at S., i. Mary, Oct. 3, 1721 ; 
26. ii. Jacob, Mar. 1, '23-4. 



22. 27. Jacob, w. Lydia , inherited the ancient homestead, and had 

39. 28. i. Ebenezer, Jly. 26, 1761 ; n. Lavina, Oct. 23, '62 j 

29. in. Henry, Aug. 3, '64, m. 1st, Aseneth Holbrook, June 1, '86, d. Apl. 
16, 1804; 2d, Hannah Whitney , d. Mar. 14, 1841, purchased, Jly. 26, 
1802, of Joseph Holbrook, the farm now Capt. Jacob Pratt's, and had 

i. Nathaniel, Jly. 15, 1788, d. Sep. 3, 1818 ; n. Alvin,Nov. 23, '90 ; 
in. Lewis, Jan. 28, and d. Jan. 31, '92; iv. Henry, Feb. 21, '93; 
v, Eli, June 1, '95; vi. Moses, Jly. 13, '98; vn. Orra, Sep. 16, 
1800 ; Tin. Asenath, Apl. 2, 1803, d. Jan. 22, 1846 ; ix. Jacob, 
Cpt., Apl. 25, 1806, by 2d w. ; inherited his father's farm, bought of 
Jo. Holbrook, who, or his father, bought it of Joseph Bacon. He m. 
Mary Ann Hooker, and 2d, Phebe (Whitney) Hill, 1840 s had 

i. Elaner, m. Peter Johnson, of H. ; n. Mary ; in. Samuel ; 
iv. Lorenzo; v. Theodore; 
x. Elaner, Oct. 6, 1807, d. Jly. 17, 1808 ; xi. Wm., May 5, 1809, 
d. Aug. 2, '10 ; xi. Wm., Nov. 6, 1811, d. Dec. 26, '31 ; 
xn. John W., Aug. 8, '17 ; 
iv. Aaron, Dec. 5, '65 ; v. Jacob, Jan. 17, '67 ; vi. Abigail, Aug. 17, '68 ; 
vn. Sarah, Sep. 2, '72; vm. Lydia, Apl. 18, '74; ix. Sally, Aug. 9, '80. 

28. 39. Ebenezer, w. Miriam Bullard, i. Leonard, May 23, 1790 ; n. Anne, 
Feb. 18, '94; in. Charles, Feb. 12,1800, (d.)m. Joanna Hart, inherited the 
homestead. 



Ira Pratt, ? by w. Betsey, had at S., i. Mary, Nov. 26, 1798 ; n. Horatio, 
June 6, 1803. 



1. Nathaniel PrentiSS, brother of Rev. Joshua, of Hoi., d. Jan. 
23, '96, agd. ab. 81, m. Abigail Ware, who d. Mar. 1, '88. He was a 
tailor, fr. Cambridge, s. where Vernal Barbour rs., in S., on a part of her 
father's farm, had, i. Abigail, May 23, 1745 ; n. Anne, May 10, '47 ; 

9. 2. in. Benj., Oct. 13, '50, d. Oct. 25, '98 ; 

4. 3. iv. Stephen, Jly. 28, '52, inherited the homestead, and squandered 
it; v. Hannah, June 11, '55; vi. Hephzibah, Apl. 7, '58; vn. Sarah, 
May 9, '60, m. Barak Leland, Aug. 5, '79. 

3. 4. Stephen, w., Hannah Badcock, m. June 2, '74, had, i. Becca, bp. Jly. 30, 
'75, at S. ; i|. Asenath, Dec. 5, 1775, bap. Dec. 10, '75 ; n. Nathaniel, 
Oct. 24, '78 ; in. Solomon, bp. May 6, '81 ; iv. Angelina, Nov. 4, '84 ; 
v. Mary, Oct. 10, '87 ; vi. Hannah, Sep. 15, '90, pr. '89, at Scituate, 11. 1., 
bp. at S., Sep. 19, '90 ; vn. Abigail, Apl. 8, '91, at Gloucester, B. I. ; 
vm. Orlando, June 12, '93, at S. ; ix. Dexter, Jan. 4, '95 ; x. Orlando, 
May 25, '97. 

2. 9. Benj., s. where Ellis Warers., in S., m. Hannah Morse, 1777, had, 

i. Sally, Jan. 29, 1780 ; n. Isaac, May 2, '83, d. Jan. 10, '99, a. 16 ; 
in. Alvin, Feb. 4, '85, bp. Mar. 20, '85 ; iv. Hannah, Jly. 24, '89, do. 
Aug. 2, '85. 



12. Rev. Joshua Prentiss, b. at Cambridge, 1718 ; grd., 1738, II. U., ord. at 



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H., May 18, 1743, d. Apl. 24, '88. " He was the oldest son of an intelligent 
and pious father. From a letter addressed to him hy his father, a few days 
previous to his ordination, containing most affectionate and faithful advice, 
we learn, that when seven years of age he was visited with a violent fever, which 
reduced him so low as to leave little hope of his recovery. Under the anxiety and 
distress produced by the forbidding prospect of losing a child upon whom he doted, 
his father writes ; ' retiring from the bed to another chamber, I spread my case 
before the great God, and prayed earnestly for the life of the child, — yet with sub- 
mission, — that if it might be consistent with his holy will to spare his life, and to 
bring him back from the grave's mouth, and restore him to health, I would then 
according as he should enable me, give him up, and devote him to his service ; and by 
his grace, I have been enabled, in some measure, to perform those vows which my 
lips uttered, and my mouth spake when I was in trouble.' In addition to his baptismal 
dedication to God in infancy, his father says, ' you have been, by a more particular 
and renewed promise of your father, given and devoted to God's service.' And there 
is no inconsiderable ground for believing, that the prayers, and vows, and pious 
efforts of the father, in regard to this son, were not unavailing. In early life, he 
professed faith in Christ, and publicly assumed the obligations of his parents in his 
baptism, and devoted himself to the service of God. He was graduated at Harvard 
University in 1738 ; being at that time only twenty years of age. His religious 
sentiments were Calvinistie; and his preaching was plain, instructive, and evangelical. 
For about five years before his death, his health was so greatly impaired as to render 
him unable to preach only occasionally. And perhaps it was owing wholly to this 
circumstance, that the congregation was induced to procure, in 1784, a dissolution of 
the pastoral connection subsisting between him and them. But the fact, which 
seems the most unpleasant upon this subject, is, that having fallen behind in the pay- 
ment of his salary, the people should refuse his pecuniary claims, and compel him to 
the ungrateful task of a civil prosecution. The demand was, however, ultimately 
discharged without a legal process ; greatly to the credit of the people, and the satis- 
faction of the pastor. From the time of this settlement to his death, peace and good 
feeling prevailed ; as is evident from the fact, that after his dismission the town ex- 
empted his estate from taxation, and appropriated, for the the use of his family, a 
seat in the Meeting-house." [See Fitch's His. Dis.] He m. Mary Angier, Nov. 9, 
'43, who d. Jan. 4, 1754 ; 2d, Margaret Appleton,'55 ; 3d w. Mary Haley, 
'70. i. Joshua, Oct. 18, 1744, r. a merch. at Marblehead ; u. Tho., Rev. 
D. D., Oct. 14, '47, adm. A. B., 1766, S. T. D., 1808, H. U.; ord. at 
Medfd. ab. 1770; d. 1814; m. Henry, Feb. 24, '48-9, r. as a merch. 
in Bos., d. at Medfd., a. 73 ; iv. Mary, Jan. 19, '52, d. Nov. 9, '52 ; 
v. Mary, d. Aug. 3, '59 ; vi. Appleton, Jan. 22, '56, d. June 16, '58, 
by 2d w. ; vn. Appleton, 2d, grad. H. U., 1781, d. 1821, r. as a merchant 
in Bos. ; vm. Margaret, Nov. 8, '59, m. Nov. 26, 1789, Timothy 
Dickenson; ix. Elizabeth, Jan. 9, '64, passed her days um., and d. in H, 
at an advanced age. The prayers of a godly ancestry were answered in her 
early and sound conversion ; and throughout her long life, she was zealously 
and uniformly devoted to the immortal good of her race, of every color and 
clime. Precious and admonitory is her memory. It seems to inquire, Who 
has arisen, who will arise to take her place in the chh. ? and, like her and Susan 
Anthony, lead a life of prayer, making all whom she meets think of prepara- 
tion for the life to come, and of the immediate duty of doing more for God 
in the world ? In her life she devoted her earnings and the proceeds of her 
property to the cause of Christian benevolence, and by will consecrated all 
her estate to the use of the Theo. Sem., at Bangor. 



206 PAUL, RAMSDELL, 11ANSTEAD, RICHARDSON. 

Daniel Paul, Esq., early master of a vessel in the European trade, was b. at 
Sanford, Me., the s. of Josiah and Betsey P., and m. Sarah Smith fr. Need., 
purchased the ancient Whitney Farm, and s. in S., 1825, as landlord, 
farmer, and manufacturer. 



Stillman S. Ramsdell, s. of Gideon R., of Garland, Me., and b. Aug. 5, 
1817, m. Eunice Fay, fr. S. boro', s. in S., ab. 1837, has Eunice A., Hufus 
F, Stillman F. 



John Ranstead, w. Hannah, had in S., i. Roger, Feb. 19, 17G9 ; n. Rufus; 

Sept 2, '70. 

Richardson; This is a patronymic ; and when surnames were introduced, 
there were so many Richards who had sons, as to exclude the idea of a com- 
mon origin of the Richardsons since the time of Noah. Even in this country 
so many'of the name early appear, and the records are so incomplete, that no 
individual or association can derive our Richardsons any more than our 
Smiths, from one stock, The Gen. Register reports, and I have discovered 
that Symon Richardson, aged 23, and Tho., aged 26, embarked at Grave- 
send for Virginia, 1635. Tho. arrived in the Speedwell, 1656. Tho., of 
Chemford, had Mary, 1673. Tho. d. at Woburn, 1774, a. 93. Tho. d. 
at do., 1773, a. 67 ; Amos, wf. Sarah, had Stephen, 14, (4), 1652, at Bos. 
Rev. John, d. at Newbury, 1696, in his 50th year; Lt. John, d. at Wo- 
burn, 1G96--7, a. 58; John witnessed a will at Exeter, 1G42; John d. at 
W., 1749, a. 81; Samuel took the freeman's oath, May 2, 1638; Samuel 
d. at W., 1754, a. 84; Samuel, w. Susanna, d. at W., 1726, a, 56; Samuel 
d. at W., 1712, aged 66 ; Ezekiel took the freeman's oath, Oct. 19, 1630. 
This name occurred early in Needham ; Capt. Josiah was of Chemsford, 
1659; Nathan, w. Tabitha, d. at W., 1739, a. 33; Nathan's wid. Esther 
d. at W., 1727, a. 27; Joshua, d. at W., 1748, aged 68 ; Dea. Nathan, 
d. 1775, at W., aged 74; Lydia, wid. of Nathan, d. at W., 1776, aged 
85 ; Theophilus, m. Hannah Chickering, at Needham, Feb. 1, 1739-40, 
and had Abijah, '41, d. yg. ; Theo.znA. Ebenr. 

Several of this name early settled in Medfield. Tradition says they came 
from Concord, where the name early occurred, and they were not improb- 
ably the descendants of Samuel, senr., of Woburn, who was selectman, 
1644-5-6-9-51. They were 

i. John Richardson 1st, who s. where his gr. gr. grd. s., Henry R. resides, 
near the centre of E. Med., and d. May 29, 1697. By w. Rebecca, he had 
11. 2. i. John, 3d, Aug. 25, 1679, " d. May 19, 1759, in his 80th year ; " 

ii. Elizabeth, Sep. 20, 1681; 
32. 3. in. Daniel, Aug. 31, 1685; iv. Mehetabel, June 16, 1689; 
v. Rebecca, Feb. 28, 1696-7. 

4. John Richardson, 2d, d. in Med., Aug. 17, 1774, aged " 97 years, minus 8 
days." He was probably a kinsman of John 1st, and might have been the 
father of 

20. 5. Joseph ? who m. Hannah Barbour, Oct. 18, 1706, at Medfield ; 

35. 6. of Seth? who m. Bathsheba , ab. 1747, and s. at Med., and 

56. 7. of Wm.? who ra. Hannah Ellice, May 21, 1739, and 

25. 8. of Samuel? who m. Mary Allin, Apl. 2, 1734, and 



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51. 9. of Benjamin? who m. Elizabeth , and d. 1761, aged 68, and of 

46. 10. Henry ? who m. Jemima Pond, prior to 174G : but these six remain to 
be traced. a I 74/ - 

2. 11. John, 3d, m. Esther^ ? who well remembered fleeing to Bullard's 

fort at Bogistow pond, in times of alarm of Indians. She d. of a cancer 
Aug. 17, 1774, in her 96th year. They had, i. Sarah, b. 1700 ; 
12 ii. John, Oct. 22, 1701 j in. David, June 19, 1703, d. Mar. 9, ? 23-4 ■ 
43. 13.it. Jona., Feb. 1, '04, m. Kuth Clark, July 4, '28; v. Esther, Jan. 2 

'06-7 ; vi. Mary Sep. 9, '09 ; 
48. 14. vii. Joseph, Apl. 3, '11, m. Abigail j 

™ \l' vm - Samuel > Jan. 3, '13-14, d. in Wrenth., Feb. 10, 1811, a S ed 9G ; 

00. 16. ix. Solomon, Apl. 4, 16 ; . 

65. 17. x. Moses, Feb. 8, 17-18, m. Abigail Allen, Mar. 17-40 • 

69. 18. xi. Asa, Oct. 16, '20, d. July 15, '64, m. Abigail Barbour, '40 ; 

id. 19. xn. David, Dec. 6, '24, m. Jemima Smith ; 



5. 20 Joseph, w. Hannah Barber, m. Oct. 18, '1706, r. Medfd., had i. Joseph 
Sep. 21, 1707 ; n. Mary, Aug. 15, '08, at Medfd. ; in. Samuel, Mar. 31 '13' 

at do. ; iv. James, Mar. 14, '15, m. Hannah , had Hanh., Au*' is' 

1/G9, and James, Oct. 11, '71; (a J. of Med., m. Sarah Eames, of Holl ' 
Dec. 3, '89;) v. Seth, Apl. 3, '19; vi. Ebenr., May 23, '22, d. Mav 
23, 22 ; vn. Peter, Aug. 28, '23, d. June 25, '48. 7 

8. 25 Samuel w Mary Allin, m. Apl. 2, 1734, r. Medfd. ; 1. Sarah, May 4, 
1/34 at Medfd., d. June 5, '34 ; 11. Kezia, do. ; 111. Sibbil, Au-. 10 '35 • 
iv. Ohve, July 4, '37; v. Nathan, Nov. 15, '39, in Med. • 

or Si?' M S I 8 ' 2V , Me /. > Vn - Sam ' ] ' 0ct - 7 ' ' U ' VIIr - A ™*> Aug. 
2Q, 46, m. Phebe Holbrook, fr. Bell. ; ix. Mary, Feb. 3, '48-9 • x Rabb 

May 15, '52 ; xi. Patty, Apl. 11. '56 ; xn. Caroline, July 9, '58 ■ ' 

xiii. Isaac, Feb. 17, '61. J ' 

3. 32. Daniel, Lt w. Hannah , d. Aug. 28, 1778, r. Medfd. and Med. ; 

n f "^ h V 10 " 11 ' at Medfd " m - Hannah Ellice, May 21, '39 ■ 
n. Hanh., Dec, 25, '18, at Med; J ' 

781 34. III# Daniel j une 2 6, '21, at do. 




13. 43. Jona., w. Kuth Clark, m. July 4, 1728, r. Med. ; 1. Ruth, Apl. 2G '29 • 
11. The, Mar. 2, '34 ; in. Jonah, Feb. 23, '3Q. P ' ' 



10. 46 Henry, w. Jemima Pond d. May 19, 1766, r. Med. ; 1. Mary, Oct. 14 
46 ; n. Henry, Apl. 29, '49. " ' 

14. 48 Joseph, w. Abigail-—- r. Med and rm. to Uxbridge ; 1. Joseph, Oct. 
17, 1/89 d Aug. 18, '45; 11. Mary, Feb. 6, '41 ; in. Esther Apl 1 
'42; iv. Abigail, Oct. 21, '44; v. Thankful, Nov/ 1, '46 Wos P h 
Nov. 12, '48; vn. Chloe, Aug. 15, '50 ; vm. Benj., Apl. 13, '53. P 

9. 51. Benj., w. Elizabeth, r. Med., 1. Benj., Mar. 9, 1739 ; n. Elizabeth, Dec. 



208 UICIIARDSON. 

20/40; in. Ezekiel, Apl. 3, '44; iv. Job, Apl. 15, '45; v. Jeremiah, 
Nov. 25, '48 ; vi. Catherine, Apl. 9, '53. 

7. 56. Wm. m. Hanh. Ellice, May 21, '39; 2d, Abigail Curtis, '59, r. Med., 
where Geo. Newall rs. 

i. Mary, Feb. 17, 1739-40 ; ir. David, Dec. 24, '4G, d. or b. then ; 
in. Nathan, Jan. 2, '46«7 ; iv. Sarah, Apl. 8, '48 ; 
81. 59. v. Amos, b. pr. ab. '42. 

16. CO. Solomon, w. Rebecca, r. Med., rm. to Brookfield, i. Rebecca, Jly. 5, 

1743; ii. Amasa, Mar. 8, '44-5; ill. Sarah, Oct. 24, '46; iv. Solomon, 
Oct. 20, '48 ; v. Asa, Sep. 25, '52 ; vi. Oliver, Aug. 12, '54. 

17. 65. Moses, d. Apl. 6, 1797, agd. 80, w. Abigl. Allen, of diminutive stature, 

who d. June 10, 1807, agd. 90, r. Med. 
99. 66. i. Moses, Esq. ; n. Abigl., Feb. 12, 1742, pr. d. yg. ; 
91. 67. in. Simeon, June 27, '44, m. Elizth. Jones; iv. Rhoda, Oct. 6, '46, 

m. Tim. Bullard, r. Med. ; v. Lois, Feb. 1, '48-9, m. Adam Bullard, r. 

Med. ; vi. Rebecca, Apl. 3, '51, m. Henry Bullard, r. Med. ; 
95. 68. vn. Oliver, d. agd. 90, m. Vashti Ramsden, 2d ; vin. Keziah, m. 

Hall, of Oxfd. ; ix. Perlee, m. Jeremiah Daniels, 1785, r. Med. 

18. 69. Asa, w. Abigail Barbour, dg. of John B., of Med., r. Roekville, Med., 
84. 70. i. Asa Patridge, m. Catherine Adams ; 2d, Betsey Dexter ; n. Miriam, 

Jly. 4, 1741-2, m. Slocum, r. Hobbardston ; in. Abigl., June 24, 

'44, m . Cutler, rm. to N. S. ; iv. Eli, Aug. 4, '49, d. Oct. 2, '52 ; 

87. 71. v. Abijah,A.M., M. D., Aug. 30, '52, at "Old Hill," near Roekville, 
E. Med., and d. 1822 ; vi. Hephzibah, June 30, '55, d. Sep. 23, '59 ; 
vii. Mary, b. Nov. 14, '57, d. Sep. 17, '59 ; 
110. 72. vin. Ezra, Mar. 17, '60, m. Jemima Lovell, 1786. 

19. 73. David, m. Esther Smith, r. Med., i. Esther, Dec. 29, 1748, d. June 22, '55; 

ii. David, Oct. 5, '52, d. June 4, '55; in. Rachel, May 10, '56; 
iv. David, Apl. 23, '58; v. Rufus, Sep. 21, 'GO; vi. Abner, June 11, 
'63, d. Oct. 11, '63 ; vn. Asa, Aug. 3, 'G6. 

77. Joshua, prob. son of Daniel, No. 32, w. Lydia, had at Med., 
i. Amos, May 10, 1754. 

34. 78-]>. Daniel, m., and had, i. Daniel ; 
103. 78|. ii. Elisha, m. Sarah Ellice ; 
79. 78|. in. Joshua, Dr. ; iv. Silas, who s. at Leominster ; and four dgs. 

782- 79. i. Joshua, Doct., m. Sarah Morse, fr. Holl., Aug. 2, 1781; 2d, Mrs. 
Polly Babbitt, 1800, r. Med. and H., had 
80. i. Daniel, Aug. 31, '82, at Med. ; n. Lucinda, Jan. 23, '84, at Med. ; 
in. Sarah, Mar. 12, '88, at Hoi. ; iv. Betsey, June 2, '90, at H. ; 
v. Electy, Oct. 2, 93 ; vi. Hannah, Jly. 31, '95. 



59. 81. Amos, w. Phebe Holbrook, d. Apl. 30, 1706, r. Med., i. Ursula, Nov. 
22, '66, m. Amos Clark, '88 ; n. Abigl, Sep. 5, '68, m. Luther Green, 
'90 ; in. Nathan, Feb. 21, '71, d. Apl. 27, '73 ; iv. Esther, Jly. 18, '76 ; 

82. v. Amos, Mar. 13, '78, m. Johnson, fr. Chester, Vt., r. W. Med. ; 

83. vi. Artemas, Mar. 21, '80, m. Johnson, fr. do., r. W. Med. 



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84. Asa Partridge Richardson, a miller, \v. Hanh. Hill, fr. Sh., r. Med. 

85. i. Asa, Jly. 12, 17G8, m. Catherine Adams; 2d, Betsey Dexter; 
ii. Persis, Nov. 22. '69, in. Paul Mctcalf, '90, r. Frank. ; 

86. in. Lewis, Nov. 23, '85, m. Abigail Tyler, r. Rockville, E. Med. ; 
iv. Hannah, in. Adams Jones, r. Med. 



71. 87. Abijah Richardson, M. D., in 1770, entered Harv. Col., where he 
remained two years. He then commenced the study of Medicine. Having 
completed bis studies, be entered the Revolutionary army in the capacity of 
surgeon's mate, under Dr. Samuel Whitwell. He afterwards received a 
surgeon's commission, and continued in the service of bis country until the close, or 
near the close of the war. He then settled as a physician, in Medway, and there con- 
tinued in the active and successful performance of the duties of his profession until bis 
death, May 10, 1822, a. 70. Few physicians pass their professional career more 
honored or beloved. He was an eminent Botanist ; indefatigable in the pur- 
suit of knowledge, and with a memory so retentive that he seldom forgot what 
he had once acquired. He performed the duties of every relation of life with the 
most scrupulous exactness. He was affable, communicative, benevolent ; but not 
obtrusive. He was an honor to his profession and to his country ; and for many 
years to come bis memory will be held in grateful recollection in the vicinity in which 
be lived. He m. Mercy Daniels, who lived until 1854, receiving from her grateful 
and prosperous country a handsome annual pension, as a token of gratitude for 
services rendered by her husband in the day which tried men's souls. [Dr. Ebenr. 
Alden's address before Norf. Dis. Med. Soe.] They bad 

i. Betsey, Apl. 2, 1773, m. Capt. Lewis Wheeler, of Med., '93 ; 
107. 88. ii. Joseph, Apl. 24, '75, rn. Anna, dg. of Oliver Adams; 

89. in. Abijah, Nov. 21,' '81, m. Olive, dg. of Doct. Pond, of Frank. ; 

iv. Mercy, May 2, '83, m. John Stedman, r. Hoi. ; v. Charlotte, Jly. 28, 
'85, d. Oct. 5, '95; vi. Abigb, Jly. 31, '87, m. Asa Thayer; 2d, 
Zachariah Lovell, of Med., had Abijah, Asa C, and Davis Thayer 
(all d. yg.), and Francis Alexr. Lovell, b. June 5, 1830 ; 
vn. Mary, Mar. 29, '89, r. um. w. her mother, in Med. ; viii. Eliza, Jly. 2, 
'91, m. Sylvanus Adams, r. Med. ; ix. Tryphcna, June 9, '94, m. J. Perry 
Leland, of Sh. ; 

90. x. Daniels, 1796, m. Laurana Beals, r- homestead, and has Francis and 

Chs., and Clarissa, w. of Wm. Leland, of S. 



67. 91. Simeon, w. Elizabeth Jones, dg. of Tho. J., r. Med., i. Abigb, July 24, 

1774, d. Sep. 17, '78 ; n. Elizabeth, Jly. 22, '76, d. Sep. 18, '78 ; 
in. Matilda, Nov. 18, '78, d. yg. : iv. Solomon, Mar. 8, '83, m. Olive Morse, 

2d, Rice; 3d, Rice, r. Brookfield; v. Elizabeth, Nov. 12, '85, 

m. Lowell Cooledge ; 2d, Cpt. Samuel Sanger.; vi. Henry, Mar. 30, '88, 
m. Rebecca Adams, inherits the ancient homestead ; vn. Perley, June 22, '90, 
m. Joseph L. Richardson, Esq. ; vni. Simeon, May 16, '99, m. Abigb 
Richardson; ix. Orinda, d. Mar. 31, 1800 ; x. Irene, m. Obed. Turner; 
2d, Lewis Hawes, r. Med. 

68. 95. Oliver, w. Vasbti Ramsdel, r. Med., i. Priscilla, Dec. 2, 1775, m. Danl. 

Allen; 2d, Manning, of Lex. ; n. Oliver, Mar. 16, '78, m. Matilda 

Patridge, '97, had Oliver ; in. Chs., May 26, '80, m., and had Francis and 
others ; iv. Ira, Dec. 27, '82, d. yg. ; v. Abigb, May 30, '86, m. Joel 
Brown, r. Brookfield. 

27 * 



210 RICHARDS, RIDER. 

66. 99. Moses, junr., Landlord and Esq., m. Abigail Daniels, 1774, dg. of 
Jeremiah D., i. Moses, Apl. 3, 1776, in. Patty, dg. of Doct. Aaron Wight, 
'97 ; ii. Jabez, Apl. 10, '78, pr. d. yg. ; in. John, Feb. 9, '82, m. Mary 
(Harding) Daniels, fell a victim to mental derangement. 

101. Asaph,? w. Hannah, r. Med., i. Chs., Mar. 22, 1777, d. Oct. 25, '78 
ii. Hannah, Mar. 1, '80; in. Silence, (also) Mar. 1, '80 ; d. Mar. 16, '80 

78|. 103. Elisha, m. Sarah Ellis, 1773, had at Med., i. Elisha, Feb. 4, '79, d. Mar 
10, '79; ii. Marcus, Oct, 30, '80, m. Prudence Hill, dg. of Simon H. 
in. Sarah, Mar. 19, '85, d. yg., a cripple ; iv. Hannah, Nov. 23, '87, m 
Oliver Phillips, r. Med. ; v. Anna, Oct. 7, '89, d. yg. ; vi. Aaron, d. Nov 
3, 1803, a cripple ; vn. Silas, m. Mary Carlton, r. Med., had i. Ama, m 
Rev. White ; 2d, Addison. 

88. 107. Joseph, w. Anna Adams, 1795, r. near Ptichardson's mills, Med., 

i. Horace, Sep. 23, 1795, m. Catherine Draper ; n. Charlotte, Feb. '97, 
m. Cpt. Eleazer Daniels; in. Anna, m. Cpt. Elisha A.Jones, r.Med.; 
iv. Richard, an orchardist, m. Eliza. Bullard ; 2d, Elizabeth Baker ; 
v. Joseph, d. urn. ; vi. Adams, m. Bingham, rs. Bos. 

72. 110. Ezra, w. Jemima Lovell, m. 1786, r. Med., 
113. 111. i. Joseph Lovell, Hon., Mar. 29, 1787, r. Med., succeeded his revered grd. 
father, Joseph Lovell, Esq., as Town Clerk, for 20 ys., and has been much 
in public service ; n. Jemima, Nov. 30, '88, m. Hon. Nathan Jones, of 
Med. ; in. Abigl., Dec. 4, '90, at Holl., m. Aaron Wight; iv. Ezra, Feb. 
16, '93, at Med., m. Mary Goodell, fr. Newfatie, who d. 1853, r. Med. and 
Natick ; v. Asa, Jan. 2, '95, d. um. at Med. ; vi. Sarah, Sep. 24, '96, m. 
Rev. AlvinBond, D. D., of Sturb. ; vn. Eli, Mar. 20, 1800, d. 1800. 

111. 113. Joseph Lovell, Hon., w. Perlee Richardson, b. June 22, '90, m. June 
20, 1811, had in Med., i. Elizth., Aug. 14. '12, d. Oct. 15, '33, m. Adams 
Daniels ; n. Jemima, Mar. 20, '14, d. June 21, '50, m. Doct. Lyman B. 
Larkin, r. Wrenth. ; in. Joseph L., Jly. 11, '15, m. Sylvia Partridge, has 

Geo. Lovell, Joseph H., and Allen M. ; 
iv. Stephen Baxter, Jly. 15, '18, m. Lorette How, r. Nashua, N. H. ; 
v. John Perlee, Mar. 18, '24, d. Jan. 12, '27. 



Joseph Richards, ? w. Chloe, had at S., Willard, Feb. 15, 1800. 

1 m » m+ — — 

1. WlH. Rider, previously of Watertown and Cambridge, moved to S. after 

Philip's war, and on 13, (3), 1679, had a home lot of 20 acres assigned 
him, S. E. of Peter's Hill, where Benj. Dowse rs. In 1686 he was rated 
for the Indian title, and in 1715 drew land in Doug. He was selectman 
1696-98, and d. Aug. 27, 1724. He. m. Hanh. Lovet, Aug. 11, 1G74, 
who d. Nov. 23, 1715. He had at Cambridge, 

5. 2. i. Wm, Jly. 29, 1675 ; 

ii. Hannah, Apl. 4, '78, d. yg. ; m. Hannah, May 28, '80, m. Wm. 
Johnson, of S., 1699 ; iv. Daniel, pr. m. Elizabeth Adams, May 16, 1711, 

9. 4. v. Eleazer, Jan. 22, 1687 ; vi. Esther, pr. 

2. 5. Wm., jun., m. Deborah Morse, Nov. 27, 1701, dg. of Joseph M., of Medfd., 

by w. Priscilla Colburne, s. in S., and became one of her most distinguished 



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and useful citizens. Tie served the town 19 years as selectman, represented 
her in the Gen. Court, and was 13 years Town Clerk. His chirography for 
neatness and plainness was not surpassed in the Colony. He acted as 
surveyor and draftsman in this and bordering townships, and particularly in 
Natick, to which town he removed ah. 1734, and there served as T. Clerk. 

16. 6. i. Theodore, Oct. 15, 1702 ; n. Mary, Aug. 13, 170G, m. Asa Morse, and 

s. in N. ; nr. Deborah, June 22, '10, m. Richard Sanger, jun. 
19. 7. iv. Wm. Oct. 24, '15; v. John, Jan. 15, '18-19. 

4. 9. Eleazer, m. Hannah (Badcock) Learned, Sept. 22, 1713, and had at IT., 
I. Eleazer, Oct. 21, 1714. 
25. 11. ir. Gideon, Oct. 9, '21, m. Lucy Smith, of Ilopk., '44; in. Ebenezer, 

Dec. 14, ; iv. Jonas, Dec. 27, '25 ; v. Preservet, Mar. 16, '28; 

15. vi. John, Aug. 12, '29 ; vn. Hannah, Jly. 18, '31, d. '44. 

6. 16. Theodore, m. Sarah Bacon, of Needh., 1726; i. Sarah, Feb. 1, '26-7. 

28. 17. ir. Joseph, May 19, '29, d. Dec. 3, 1819 ; in. Mary, Dec. 23, '31, m. 

Asa Daniels, of H., '58 ; iv. Theodore, '33-4, d. '45 ; v. Deborah, '36. 

7. 19. Wm. m. Elizabeth Hill, of S., Apl. 10, 1746, and had at S., i. Aaron, 

Oct. 30, 174S, m. Feb. 14, '71, Hannah Goulding, and had at S., i. Mary, 
Aug. 30, '71 ; ii. Moses, Aug. 9, '73; in. Martin, Mar. 8, '76. 

ii. Wm., Mar. 9, '50, m. Malady Cozzens, Feb. 24, '74, had Elizabeth, 
Mar. 7, '75, at Nat. 

in. Peter, Nov. 20, '51 ; iv. Moses, Jan. 29, '53, m. Mary Twitchell. 

11. 25. Gideon, m. Lucy Smith, 1744, and had at S., i. Hannah; n. Elizabeth, 
Jan. 3, '45-6 ; in. Jonas, Mar. 2, '48-9 ; iv. Gideon, Sept. 28, '51. 

17. 28. Joseph, m. Sarah Morse, dg. of Henry, of Med., by w. Sarah Kibby, was 

a clockmaker, and r. on the Milfordroad, in the W. of II. ; had i. Hannah, 
Aug. 8, 1751, m. Ephraim Chapin, of Milford. 
30. 29. ii. Asa, Sept. 17, '55, d. June 30, 1825; in. Theodore, Jan. 12, '59, 
d. Mar. 3, '59 ; iv. Molly, June 8, '65, d. ab. '86, um. 

29. 30. Asa, inherited the homestead in H., m. Margaret Johnson, Nov. 4, '76, d. 

May 11, 1805; 2d, Dinah Wheeler, Oct., 1805, d. Jan., 1823; 3d, 
Sabrina Osgood, June 2, '23, and had i. Olive, Aug. 14, 1777, m. Amariah 
Daniels; it. John, Dec. 27, '78, d. '79; in. Betsey, June 27, '80, in. 
Japhet Daniels ; iv. James, Apl. 22, '82, m. Lucy Thayer, of Milfd. ; 
v. John, Oct. 10, '84, m. Lucy Corbett, of II.; VI. Polly, Jan. 3, '87, 
m. Solomon Wright, of Bel. 



ROCkWOOCl.* The names Bockwood and Bocket were formerly identical, and 
the latter a corruption of the former. For in the mother country the Bockwoods are 
an ancient and somewhat numerous race, wlrile the Bockets are almost unknown, there 
being lately only one in London, and he> unacquainted with the existence of the 
name out of the circle of his relatives in the interior of the kingdom. The name of 
Rockwood was no doubt local, derived from Bocky Woods, the place of the exploits, 
or of the abode of the first who assumed it; and if " there is not an ancient town, 

* Tradition says that a page by the name of Rockwood, at the court of Henry VIII, in a game 
of chess with his king, won a manor belonging to one of the monasteries distributed in his reign ; 
and that, in commemoration of the victory, received from the king for his arms 6 chessrooks. 
Tradition, like other great liars, sometimes speaks the truth, and perhaps in this instance does 
so. The above estate is said to be still occupied by Uockwoods who are of the gentry. 



212 HOCKWOOD. 

village or hamlet in England or Normandy, that did not give name to some family in 
England ; " if John de Hill and James of under the Hill ; if Peter of the sandy Ford, 
and John of the lay [Plain] Land ; if Nicholas of the woods, and Joseph of under 
the Woods derived their names from land marks, no marvel if, while the English 
were assuming lower or surnames, some Nicholas, Richard or John should have 
taken his from the liocky Woods, once so common in the W. of England ; and 
when the customs of another age and country are considered, none need fear for the 
rank or dignity of their ancestor in conceding that his name came out of the woods. 
In this country it was first recorded Rocket, and this orthography was generally pre- 
served until 1728, when Dea. Nathaniel R., of Wrentham, and brothers, restored the 
original spelling of Rockwood. This they did 19 years before the death of their 
revered uncle Benjamin, who was born in 1G51, and whose grandfather and perhaps 
father were both from England, and who must have known .the true orthography of 
the name, and might have influenced his nephews to the contrary if they were 
attempting an innovation. Besides, I am inclined to believe that he, rather than bis 
nephew, Benj., who was then jun., was the " Benj. Rockwood " who subscribed a 
petition to the General Court in 1737, on account of " services and sufferings in the 
late Indian wars ; " and if so, then he joined with his nephews, or preceded them in 
restorino - the true spelling. But this was not the first resort to the original orthog- 
raphy. The corruption of the name seems to have been resisted far earlier, and 
from the first, at the very place where they first settled : for I have recently found it 
spelt " Rockwood " upon a very ancient record at Braintree, from whence the entire 
race had removed in 1G64, so that I am satisfied that in the further pursuit of their 
genealogy, the Rockwoods of New England must explore the history of their Puri- 
tan sire, not among the Rockets, but the Rockwoods of England, and in Dorset, and 
Suffolk Co's, rather than in other parts of the kingdom.* 

Of the number of Rockets who early arrived in New England, and of their pre- 
vious history, nothing reliable can be gathered from tradition. The names of only 
two have been preserved, only one of whom left issue ; and from whom all the 
Rockwoods of New England origin have sprung. Of their history prior to their 
arrival nothing is yet ascertained, and almost nothing but their names occurs on our 
records. Yet if we regard them as following the uniform custom of their times, of 
naming the first son after the paternal grandfather, and the second after the father, 
or the reverse, then one of them has told us that their father was Nicholas Rock- 
wood. Other circumstances add more. The high and holy character of the com- 
munity which attracted them, and in which they first appear ; the strict morality 
exacted of all who entered or tarried in it, and the silence of all town, church and 
colonial records as to anything amiss, indicate that in conduct they were moral, and 
in heart, pious ; while their early arrival excuses them from the sinister motives that 
drew later emigrants, and proves them to have been men of enterprise and moral 
courage. Their names were, 

1. John Rocket, 1 who was enrolled as a planter in Dorchester, in 1C3G, indi- 

* Further examination and reflection convince me that the name was never spelled Rocket 
by the family. It was so pronounced, as it still is, and so written by others, and answered to by 
the Rockwoods. But on no petition, deed, will, or certificate, ancient or modern, signed by 
either of them, have I ever found it subscribed otherwise than Rockwood ; and both Nicholas- 
and John,'-' as if mindful of the importance of the true orthography, had their marriages in 1656 
and 1662 recorded by the name of Rockwood. Such precaution in their day and circumstances 
•was anomalous and significant Other families yielded to innovations, adopted without resist- 
ance the misspelling of cferks, and seldom, if ever, recovered the original orthography of their 
names when thus publicly corrupted. But the Rockwoods (some, if not all, of the 4 first gen- 
erations) withstood the corruption, [universal on Town Records until 1728.] continued to sub- 
scribe their names Rockwood; and they seem finally to have effected the correction everywhere, 
though at different and wide intervals. None of the race are known to retain the more con- 
venient spelling of Rocket, which further indicates that such was never the name. A rule, 
however, of antiquarians requires a literal transcript from records. 



ROCK WOOD. 213 

eating that he had passed a previous probation of at least one year. Nothing more 
is recorded of him. He either returned to England with some others from D. about 
this time, or more probably d. without issue. 

2. Richard ''Rocket, 1 " alias " Rockwood," probably the brother of John, was also 
a planter in Dorchester, in 163(5. Ho and his wife the same year sold a house and 
20 acres of land at Weymouth, formerly Zachary Bicknell's, (" after Bicknell's 
death,") which belonged to their child; [pr. Nicholas] ; and the General Court, 
Mar. 9, 1636-7, bound the son when of age, either to ratify the sale or " allow all 
such costs as the Court shall think meete." 

Richard 1 m. two, and perhaps three wives. His first is supposed to have been the 
daughter of Zachary Bickncll, to whom he must have been m. as early as 1627, three 
years prior to the settlement of Dorchester. This leads to the presumption that he 
had previously lived at Weymouth, where the marriage had taken place, or more 
probably at Weymouth in Dorsetshire, from whence the early planters of our Wey- 
mouth came ; and that he and his brother John were among the number who re- 
moved from W. to D. after the arrival of their former neighbors, and perhaps kins- 
men from Dorchester, 8 ms. from Weymouth in Dorsetshire. But however this 
might have been, his earliest connections and company point us to one of these 
towns or their vicinity, as his natal place ; so that the Rockwoods of New England 
need not despair of further knowledge of their Puritan sire, and of their ancestors of 
remote antiquity. 

Richard m. Agnes , who d. at Braintree, 9 (5), 1643; and 2d, Ann , 

who d. 1664. He d. 1660, intestate, and Dec. 15, 1660, his wid., Ann "Rock- 
wood " and E. Kingsbury made oath to an " Inventory of the estate of Richard 
Rockwood." His wid., "Ann Rockwood" d. four years after, and administration on 
her estate was granted John Taylor, Apl. 28, 1664, [Suff. Prob.] He had, 

5. 3. i. Nicholas, 2 b. as early as 1628, m. Jane ; 2d, Margaret Holbrook ; 

12. 4. ii. John, 2 1, (10), 1641, after the recognition of his brother's right to 
land, formerly Bicknell's; 

in.? Lydia, who pr. m. Edward Adams, of Medfield, and pr. other daus. 
who s. in Medfield and Mendon. 



3. 5. Nicholas Rocket, 2 first located at Braintree. In 1650, the enterprise of 
settling the new town of Medfield, drew him and the sons of Henry Adams 1 
senr., from B. ; and he became one of the first settlers and proprietors of that 
town. He drew lots from time to time, most of which, by a division of the 
township in 1713, fell into Medway. In 1663, a company of 15 of his former 
townsmen, with others from Weym., having undertaken the settlement of 
Mendon, he and the Adamses at Medfield proposed to join them ; and he 
actually presented his request for acceptance as a proprietor ; but the Adamses 
finally declined, and his proposal seems not to have been acted upon, he 
having most likely withdrawn it. He finally settled, it is presumed, about 
one quarter m. S. W. of Richardson's mills, in the N. E. part of Medway, 
and was with most of his family in the stone house, at Bo<nstow Pond, in 
1676, when Philip and his warriors met with their " notorious repulse" 
He became a member of the chh. in Medfield, and took the freeman's oath, 
May 23, 1666. He m. 1st, Jane, pr. Adams? who d. Dee. 15, 1654; 2d, 
Margaret Holbrook, Jly. 16, 1656, who d. Apl. 23, 1670 ; and 3d, Silence 

, who d. Nov. 9, 1677. He d. Jan. 26, 1680. 

His estate was inventoried 26, (11), 1680, and appraised by Edward Adams 
and John Harding, the husband of Elizabeth Adams. Administration was 
granted Mar. 18, 1680, to his son, Josiah, and his estate harmoniously settled. 
He owned lots at Bear Hills, in Medfield, in and adjacent to Broad Meadows, 



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UOCKWOOD 



on Long Plain, and 85 acres on the New Grant, now W. Med. ; and he seems 
to have been a husbandman in common circumstances, and a worthy and re- 
spected citizen. He had, 

i. Samuel, 3 Dea., b. pr. at Braintree, m. Hannah Ellis, Dec. 15, 1671 ; 
ii. Benj., 3 Sep. 8, 1651, at Medfd., d. Dec. 5, 1747, at Wrenth., "in his 
97th year." 

20. 8. in. Josiah, 3 a soldier in Philips' war, m. Mary Twitchell, May 0. 1677 ; 

iv. Elizabeth, 3 b. Aprl. 3, 1657, m. John Partridge, jun., of M., '79 ; 

21. 9. v. Joseph, 3 b., pr. ab. 1659, m. Hanh. Partridge, Apl. 2, '79, and d. at 

Swansey, July 21, 1693 ; supposed to have been a Baptist; 

22. 10. vi. John, 3 Rev., b. Feb. 12, 16G2, d. Dec. 16, 1746, at Medway ; 
29 11. vn. Nathaniel, 3 Dea., Feb. 23, 1665, d. Sep. 24, 1721, at Wrenth ; 

vin. Isaac, 3 Jly. 22, 1677, d. Oct. 11, 1G77, at Medfield. On the death of 
their father, John 3 and Nathl. 8 chose Edwd. Adams their guardian. Nicho- 
las, 2 the father, seems to have named no child after himself, and what is very remark- 
able in that age of filial respect, none of his sons named any after him. But this 
may be accounted for without any distrust of his character, or of the respect of his 
sons. Perhaps he had adopted the principle of selecting Scriptural names according 
to his admiration of Scriptural characters, which excluded his own and that of his 
father ; or, he wore the name of some oppressor whom all wished to forget ; or, to 
call a child after a tutelar saint, might to them have savored of Romanism ; or, to 
give a name identical in use with that of the god of the North sea, might have seemed 
idolatry ; or, perhaps, the heralded Nicholas Bockwood, of Kirby, in Suffolk Co., 
(who might have been his grandfather,) or some other Nicholas 11. had denied him 
an expected bequest, or proudly disinherited his Puritan father, or supplanted him in 
his birthright, which he had not funds to recover, and which, if it existed, may per- 
chance on the extinction of the inheriting line, or by an earlier revival of the claim, 
yet be the inheritance of some of his posterity in this country.* Still, this dropping 
out of a patriarchal name is an anomaly not explained, but suggestive. 
4. 12. "John Bockwood, 2 " m. 15, (7), 1662, Johanna Ford, at Braintree. Fifteen 
of his townsmen and ten others from Weymouth, were that year accepted to 
be settled at Mendon, before the 7th mo. 1663, and he seems to have joined 
them on their setting out, or as soon as the condition of his family admitted. He no 
doubt expected his brother Nicholas at Medfield to accompany him, who had made 
application to the company, and whose greater age and acquaintance with the country 
and people, would have rendered him peculiarly helpful. But he encountered the 
disappointment, and remained with the settlement at Mendon, until the destruction 
of that town, at the beginning of Indian hostilities, in 1675. To him, Philip's war 
was disastrous. Twice must he and his have fled for their lives, as appears from a 
petition of his, on file at Boston, and dated at Milton, 1678, praying the General 
Court to abate a tax of 19s., on the ground that the Indians had burnt his house, 
barn, corn and bedding, at Mendon, and all that he had saved afterwards at Medfield, 
so that he had been forced to Milton to work to support a wife and 6 children. In 
167S-9, he purchased of James Albee, at Mendon, a dwelling lot of 4 acre?, with 
20 acres more adjacent, and bounded E. by Muddy Brook, with a ten rod highway 
crossing it. This shows that his 2d dwelling place in Mendon, was on the flat, a 
short distance S. E. of the centre of the present village. He had, 

* Claims in Europe 590 years old, have been legally established ; but they perish in reference 
to those who will not recover and keep their genealogy. The claim of an American to an entail- 
ment pronounced sure GO years ago, by legal authority upon the ground, was not prosecuted for 
want of funds to commence. The claimant returned, and d., leaving no records of the births of 
his children, or the location of his claim; and neither his grandchildren nor great-grandchildren 
are yet recorded. Thousands who would censure this, may be equally faulty in reference to 
claims that may arise or be discovered. 



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i. Jobn, 3 18, (G), 1GG3, at Braintrec, and pr. d. unm. ; II. ? Richard, 3 ? 
pr. for whom Joseph named a son. 
207. 14. in. Joseph," b., pr. at Men don, inherited his father John's place, at M. ; 
iv.? Johanna, 5 ? pr., and who seems to have been commemorated in 1693; 
v.? PriscihV pr., who m. Robert Corbett, Feb. 23, 1G82. 
1G. vi. Trial, 3 Feb. 28, 1677, at Medfield, and a trial he must have been, if we 
read 1G7G-7 ; for his existence commenced while his parents were in destitu- 
tion and distress from Philips' war. He pr. d. yg. ; vn. Deliverance, 3 (b. pr. 
after succor had arrived), d. at Medfield, Oct. 31, 1G78, a few months be- 
fore the father's return to Mendon. 



6. 17. Samuel Rocket, 3 Dea., m. Dec. 15, 1671, Hanh. Ellis, b. Apl. 9, 1G51, dg. 

of John E. of Ded. and Medfield, and was with her admitted to full com- 
munion in the chh. at M., 1G97. She d. May 7, 1717. He m. 2d, Sarah 

, who survived him at his death, Dec. 17, 1728. He took the freeman's 

oath, Oct. 11, 1682 ; inherited 85 acres in W. Med., on which have since r. 
Dr. AVight and N. Twiss, which had been assigned to his father Nicholas 
in 1G59, and which was at his own death assigned to his dg. Hanh., w. of John 
Hill, of Sberborn. Dea. Samuel had i. Hanh., 4 Oct. 1, 1673, d. Feb. 7, 
1729-39, was reed, to the chh. Nov. 21, '97; it. Susanna, 4 Oct. 31, '75; 
in. Samuel, 4 Apl. 11, '77, d. Apl. 25, '84 ; iv. Abigail, 4 May 17, '79, m. 
Nov. 30, '96, Joshua Wight, of M. ; v. Eleazer, 4 Apl. 18, '81, d. May 16, 
'93 ; vi. Patience. 4 May 14, '82, d. Feb. 4, '82-3; vn. Joseph, 4 Sept. 8, 
'86, pr. d. yg. ; vin. Deliverance, 4 Mar. 10, '86, d. Jan. 16, '92. 

7. 19. Benj. Rocket, 3 m. Judith , and early settled in Wrentbam, where he 

soon rendered a service that must have secured him during his long life the 
respect and gratitude of the community. " In the beginning of Philip's war, 
when searching in the wilderness for a stray horse, he discovered, about sun- 
set, a trail of 42 Indians ; and suspecting that they intended to attack the 
town the next morning after the men bad dispersed to their work, he followed 
them until they halted for the night. He then returned to the settlement 
and reported the discovery ; whereupon Capt. John Ware, with a company 
of 13 men, after securing their women and children in the garrison, went out 
and attacked them in the morning as soon as it was light, while they were 
preparing to decamp, killing from 20 to 24 of their number. The rest fled, 
some leaping down a precipitious rock from 10 to 20 feet high ; and others 
attempting to conceal themselves in Mill Brook. One of the fugitives was 
brought down at the distance of 80 rods, by a bullet from Woodcock's famous 
gun, called the Buccaneer.* This occurred at a place now called Indian 
Rock, about 2 m. S. E. of Franklin Depot. Benj. had at W. 
i. Bethia, 4 Jly. 4, 1679, at Medfield ; n. Judith, 4 Mar. 17, 1680, at Wrenth. ; 
in. Mary, 4 Oct. 2, '83, d. Apl. 12, 1763, m. Samuel Fisher, Dec. 16 
1707 ; iv. Patience, 4 20 (3), '86; v. Hezekiah, 4 Aug. 26, '88, d. '89. 

8. 20. Josiah Rocket, 3 was a soldier in Philip's war. He m. Mary Twitchell, May 

9, 1677, who d. Sep. 15, 1G99. He m. 2d, Sarah Wheelock, Nov. 10, 
1703, grd. dg. of Rev. Ralph W., of Medfield, and rm. with his family to 
Mendon. Land was assigned him by the proprietors of Mend. 1720-1, on 
N. side of Bear Hill. He had, i. Israel, 4 Feb. 25, 1677-8, who covenanted 
Aug. 22, '97, and d. June 25, 1704, at Medfd. ; n. Mary, 4 Aug. 3, '81, at 
Medfd. ; in. Bethia, 4 Feb. 21, '83, m. Daniel Lawrence, Nov. 19, 1711 ; 

* Daggett's History of Attleboro*. 



216 110CKW00D. 

iv. Mehetabel, 4 Oct. 14, '8G, m. Dr. John Corbet, of Bell, and had, 
I. Dr. John C., 5 jun., 1704, who d. at B. 1794; and ir. ' shia, who 
in. Dr. Sam. L. Scammell, of Millfd., and had Dr. John S., who in- 
herited and settled on his grd. father, Dr. Corbett's place in N. Bell, 
now II. Barbour's. 

v. Hanh., 4 Aug. 24, '91 ; vi. Johanna, 4 Dec. 28, '93. 



9. 21. Joseph Rocket, 3 m. Hannah Partridge, Apl. 2, 1679, who d. Mar. 8, 1G80. 

He removed to Swansey, where he or another of the same name d. Jly. 
21, 1093. He had at Medficld, i. Hannah, 4 Feb. 22, 1679-80 j n. Mary, 4 
(by a 2d w.), d. at Swansey, Dec. 14, 1693. 

10. 22. John Rocket, 3 "Rev.," inherited the homestead, J m. S. of the lowest water- 

privilege on Bogistow Brook in E. Mcdway. He was styled Rev. on the 
records, pr. from his speaking in religious assemblies, for I can find no evi- 
dence that he was ever ordained or otherwise licensed to preach than by com- 
mon consent. Pie is presumed to have been a Separatist, and to have contribu- 
ted to the final establishment of (he Baptist Chh. in Medfield. He m. Bethia 
Twitchell, Jly. 19, 1688, dg. of Benj. T., from Dorchester, and who d. Jan. 

1, 1706-7 : He m. 2d, Sarah , who d. his wid. at Medfield, May 17, 

1758. He bad, i. Bethia, 4 Aug. 26, 1689, m. Win. Burges, Aug. 25, 
1712 ; ii. John, 4 Oct. 6, '90, d. Apl. 16, 1703. 
188. 24. in. Joseph, 4 Nov. 15, 1692, d. Oct. 1774, at Oxford. 

66. 25. iv. Samuel, 4 Apl. 15, 1695, m. Mary White; 

72. 26. v. Benj., 4 Nov. 19, 1697, m. Rachel Morse, r. Grafton; 
vi. Deborah, 4 Apl. 7, 1700 ; 

74. 27. vn. Hezekiah, 4 Mar. 1, 1702, m. Esther , r. Med way ; 

75. 28. viii. John, 4 Dec. 26, 1700, m. Hanh. Fisher, r. Hopk. 

11. 29. Nathaniel Rockwood, 3 Dea., m. Dec. 7, 1698, Joanna Ellis, b. Jan. 17, 
1677, dg. of Tho. E., of Medfd., by w. Mary Wight (m. 1657), s. in 
Wrentham, and had, 
i. Margaret, 4 Sep. 4, 1699, m. Ebenr. Metcalf, Jly. 11, 1732; 

35. 30. ii. Nathaniel, 4 Dec. 9, 1700, m. Margaret Phipps ; 

30. 31. in. Benj., 4 Mar. 28, 1702-3, d. Oct., 1774, in. Mehetabel Thompson, 
iv. Abigail, 4 Jan. 2, 1703-4, d. young ; 
32. v. Ebenezer, 4 Nov. 2, 1705, and Nov. 13, '23, chose John Rocket, of 
Medway, to be his guardian, [Suf. Prob.] pr. d. yg. ; vi. Hannah, 4 Oct. 9, 

1707, m. Tho. Lawrence, Nov. 11, '35 ; vn. Mary, 4 Oct. 17, 1709, m. 

Alexander, of Winchester, N. H. ; 

39. 33. viii. Tho., 4 Feb. 25, 1711-12, m. Abigail McCay, Mar. 15, 'S7--8 ; 

ix. Abigail, 4 June 8, 1714, m. Josiah Blake, who succeeded to the inherit- 
ance of the ancient Rockwood farm and Mansion, 4n W. ; 

42. 34. x. Elisha, 4 June 11, 1716, placed under the guardianship of his mother, 
Nov. 13, '23, [Suf. Prob.] d. Dec. 5, 1788, at Groton. 

30. 35. Nathaniel Rockwood, 4 m. Margaret Phipps, Dec. 19, '27, pr. dg. of John 

P., of Wrentham, and sister of John Phips, of Sherborn, and grd. niece of 
Sir Wm. P., settled at Winchester, N. IT. He had, i. Nathaniel, 5 Nov. 
10, 1728, at Wrenth. ; n. Amos, 5 Aug. 9, '30 ; in. Asa, 5 Feb. 5, '33 ; 
iv. Mary, 5 Sep. 3, '47, at Winchester, m. Noah Cook, Esq., of Keene. 

31. 36. Benj. Rockwood, 4 or else his uncle, was the " Benj. Rockwood " who, in 

1737, petitioned the General Court for consideration on account of his services 



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217 



nnd sufferings in the late Indian wars. He m. Melietabel Thompson, Dec. 
19 '727, who a. June 28, '44. He m. 2d, Ruth Mann, Jan. 9, '44-5, who 
was b. Jan. 15, 1720, dg. of Win. M., of W., and grd. dg, of Rev. Mr. M., 
of W. She d. Nov. 11, 1811. He r. W. of Minebrook Valley^ H m. N. 
W. of Franklin Meeting-house, then in W., and had, r. Keziah, 5 Nov. 13, 
1729, d. May 8, '90, m. Francis Daniels, Jan. 8, '58, r. F. ; n. Samuel, 5 
Jly. 25, '32, d. Apl. 19, '34 ; in. Mchetabel, 5 Oct. 25, '34, m. Tim. Rich- 
ardson, Dec. 18, '51; iv. Benj., 5 June 1, '39, d. Aug. 24, '54; v. Lois, 5 
June 4, '44, m. Eleazer Patridge, of F. ; VI. Samuel, 5 May 19, '46, m. 
Sarah Richardson ; 

57. 37. vir. Timothy, 5 Mar. 14, '47-8, m. Sarah Phillips, fr. Dell. ; 

53. 38. vnr. Elisha, 5 Oct. 8, '50, d. Dec. 1, 1831, m. Eunice Clark ; ix. Peter, 5 
Mar. 19, '53, d. Jan. 30, '54 ; x. Rachel, 5 Apl. 2G, '56, m. Elisha Dullard, 
of F. ; xi. Eunice, 5 Jly. 31, '58, m. Samuel Blake, of F. 

33. 39. Tho. Rockwood, 4 m. Abigail McCay, Mar. 15,1737-8, settled in W., 
and removed to Oxford, had, i. Esther, 5 Feb. 24, 1738--9, at W. ; 

40. ii. Silas, 3 Apl. 22, '41 ; in. Ruth, 5 Jly. 26, '43 : 

41. iv. Micah, 5 Feb. 17, '45-6; v. Persis, 5 Jly. 13, '47 ; vi. Tho./' Sep. 9, 
'52, at Oxfd. ; vn. Abigail, 5 Feb. 24, '55. 



34. 42. Elisha Roekwood, 4 by trade a clothier, settled in Groton. He m. Aug. 
18, 1738, Elizabeth Adams, b. Sep. 4, 1719, and d. May 16, 1799, the dg. 
of James A., of Sherhorn, by w. Abigail Hill, and grd. dg. of Moses A., 
of S., by w. Lydia Whitney, and g. grd. dg. of Henry A., of Medfield, by w. 
Lydia Paine, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Henry Adams, of Draintree. She was 
cousin to the father of the Rev. Moses A., formerly of Acton, and distantly 
related to the father of Robt. Treat Paine, the signer of the Declaration. He 
had at Groton, i. Elizabeth, 5 May 6, 1739, d. Sep. 17, '53 ; 

150. 43. it. Elisha, 5 Nov. 9, or 20, N. S., '40, d. Feb. 1831; in. Samuel, 5 Aug. 

11, '42, d. Sep. 2, '53; 
48. 44. iv. Joseph, 5 June 13, '44, d. 1816, m. Sarah Richardson; 

140. 45. v. Ebenezer," A. M., M. D., Aug. 13, '46, d. Feb. 10, 1830; 
vi. Lydia, 5 May 27, '48, d. Sep. 17, '53, or 8 ; vn. Abigail. 5 Aug. 13, '51, 
m. Ebenr. Wood, and d. 1825, without issue ; vm. Moses, 5 Jly. 11, '53, d. 
Sep. 7, '53 ; 
46. ix. Samuel, 5 Dea., Dec. 6, '54, d. May 29, 1804, r., a clothier, on the 
homestead at G., m. Lucy Hubbard, and had 7 clnldrerP ; 
x. Elizabeth,' 2d, Apl. 17, '57, d. Dec. 11, 1847, m. Dea. Amos Farns- 
worth, of G., had AmosJ' wacilZalph, 6 both physicians, and 3 oilier children 6 ; 
and no deaths in their family prior to their own, at the age of 90 ys. 
xi. Lydia, 5 2d, Aug. 23, '59, m. AbijahWood, of Westminster ; xn. Sybil, 6 
Aug. 11, '61, d. 1818, m. David How, of Sudbury, and had 5 children ; 
xin. Sarah, 5 Jly. 3, '63, m. Stephen Horsley, of Pepperell, and had 2 sons. 

44. 48. Joseph Roekwood, 5 settled as a farmer at G., m. Sarah Richardson, and had 
t 49. i. Joseph, 5 Dec. 17, 1766 ; 

50. ii. Moses, 5 May 11, '69 ; in. Susanna, 5 Sep. 27, '71; iv. John, 5 Dec. 
15, 73, d. yg. ; 

51. v. Abel, B Dec. 15, '73; vi. Nabby, 5 June 13, '76; 
~>2 vn. John, 5 Sep. 16, '78 ; vm. Sarah, 5 Aug. 4, '81. 

38. 53. Elisha Roekwood, 5 s. of Benj., m. June 3, 1778, Eunice Clark, dg. of 

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218 ROCK WOOD. 

Elijah C., of Mcdway, who d. Sep. 28, 1838, s. at N. Wrentham, and had, 
i. Abigail, Sep. 19, 1779, resides urn. at N. Wrentham ; 
177. 54. n. Benj., 6 Oct. 18, '83, m. Lucy Ware ; 

55. in. Peter, 6 Dea., Sep. 25, '87, in. Parnell ; 2d,Boxa Stone, b. June 

30, 1788, dg. of Elijah S., of Milf., by w. Sophronisba Bawson, r. Milf. ; 
•v. Eunice, Oct. 30, '91 : v. Eunice, 6 June 14, '93, m. Jotham Clark, of 
Med way, who d. 1845, without issue ; vi. Charlotte, 6 Feb. 1G, '95, r. urn. 
at N. Wrenth. ; 

56. Air. Jefferson, 6 Oct. 11, 1801, m., and resided at Nashua, N. II., has 

Thomas J. 7 Andrew J. 7 and Sarah. 7 

37. 57. Timothy PiOckwood, 5 w. Sarah Phillips, r. Unionville, Franklin, had, 

i. Sally, 6 Dee. 24, 1783, r. urn. in Franklin ; 
60. 58. ii. Asa, 6 Mar. 25, '87, m. Julia Thurston ; in. Timothy, 6 Jan. 1, '94, d. yg.; 
59. iv. Nathan, 6 Jan. 9, '98, m. Hanh. Miller, r. F., had Nathan 7 Hannah 
J. 7 Surah J. 7 



58. 60. Asa Bockwood, 6 w. Julia Thurston, r. Franklin, had, 

61. i. Erastus, 7 Aug. 17, 1813, w. Mary Ann Daniels, d. Apl. 7, '42 ; 2d w., 
Louisa Morse, b. Apl. 11, '18, m. Apl. 2, '45, r. F., had, 

I. Erastus D., 8 Apl. 7, '38; n. Edmund J. , 8 Apl. 2, '42; in. Mary 
Louisa, 9, Feb. 3, '46; iv. Eugene Morse, 8 Dec. 15, '48; v. Elmer 
Lucine 8 Dec. 14, '53. ; 

62. ii. Asa P., 7 Jan. 6, 1816, d. Aug. 11, '21 ; in. Julia Ann, Jan. 24, 
'18, d. Aug. 28, '36 ; 

63. iv. Abijah T., 7 Mar. 24, '20, m. Sarah M. Peck, r. F., has Lucius O. 8 

Jidietta 8 ; Frank. 8 ; 

64. v. James, 7 Nov. 6, '21, d. yg. ; vi. Susan B., 7 May 17, '24, m. Francis 
B. Bay, May 27, '53, r. F., has Wm. F. 8 b. Mar. 2, '54; vn. Wm., 7 Jly. 
16, '27. 



65. Benj. Bockwood, jun., in 1769? w. Anna, had Olive, Jan. 20, 1787, at 
Franklin. ? 



25. 66. Samuel Bocket, 4 m. Mary White, from Mendon, and s. on the N. E. 

corner lot of 149 acres, of Medfield, New Grant., \ m. S. E. of Winthrop's 
Pond. His land was assigned, 1659, to Geo. Barbour. He had 
67. i. Samuel, 5 jun., May 3, 1724, d. Jan. 19, '54, m. Sarah Pierce, Nov. 7, 
1750, who was esteemed a witch, inherited the homestead, had 

i. Obadiah, d. yg. ; n. Amos, Jly. 20, '51, inherited the homestead, 
d. without issue ; in. Molly, d. um. y 
84. 68. ii. Timothy, 5 May 23, 1727, s. in Holl., m. Elizabeth Perry ; 
99. 69. in. Asa, 5 Dec. 28, '34, m. Sybil Littlefield, s. in W. part of Holl. ; 
101. 70. iv. Moses, 5 May 19, '37, m. Lydia Ellis; and 2d Hanh. Ellis, sisters, 
and dgs. of Tim. E., of Med., by w. Hanh. Adams, who m. 2d, Wm. Bickard- 
son, and had Amos. ; 
71. v. Aaron, 5 Mar. 8, '43-4, d. um. in the army, near Ticonderoga. 

26. 72. Benj. Bocket, 4 w. Bachel Morse, b. May 30, 1702, dg. of Benoni M., by 

w. Bachel Bullard, r. Grafron, and had 
73. i. Benj., 5 Nov. 18/23; n. Bachel, 5 Jly. 5, '37, at Med. 

27. 74. Hezekiah, 4 w. Esther, s. 100 rods. S. W. of his father, Rev. John, in E 



KOCKWOOD 219 

Medway, and had, i. Josiah, 8 Apl. 7, 1733, d. Oct. 20, '62; n. Seth, 5 
Apl. 10, '37, d. Sep. 15, '01 ; in. Amos, 5 May 22, '39, d. Feb. 26, '47. 

28. 75. John Rocket, 4 served as a soldier in the first French war, m. Hannah 
Fisher, from Dedhani, and s. at Bear Hill, then included in Mendon, and 
probably on land that had been assigned by the proprietors of Mendon, 
1720—1, to Josiah Rocket (No. 15), who had no male issue. He was 
admitted to full communion, 1743, in the chh. in Hopk., and had 

76. i. John, 5 juu., Dec. 3, 1733, m. Anne Taft, 1758, who no. 2d, Dea. 
Josiah Adams, of Mend., Feb. 14, 1702. He covenanted, 1758, and had 

77. i. Amos, 6 Jan. 20, 1760, at Hopk ; 

240. 78. n. ffezekiah? Feb. 0, '61, d. June 17, 1838, m. Elizabeth Wood, 

'81 ; 2d, Retsey Leland, dg. of Adam L., of Sh. ; nr. Hannah 6 
Apl. 18, 'G3, m. Daniel Fisk, of Upton, and d. without issue ; 
247. 79. iv. Josiah 6 Aug. 4, '05, m. Thankful Batchelder, of U-, '87; 

130. 80. v. Elisha 6 Sep. S, '67, m. Hanh Leland, Apl. 10, 1800 ; 

vi. Moses 6 who was idiotic, d. in H^; vn. Deborah 6 m. John Wood ; 
81. vin. Amiel Weeks, 6 who m. the sister of Oliver Ellice, of Med., and 

s. 10 m. from the capitol, at Montpelier, Vt. ; 
250. 82. ix. John, 6 m. Apl. 10, 1781, m. Lydia Whitney, r. Hopk. 

83. n. ? Ben]. Rockwood, of Upton, m. Ruth Adams, b. 1729, dg. of Daniel 
Ad.ms, of Med., had at U., i. Abigail, Mar. 12, 1754; n. Ruth, Mar. 12, 
'50 ; in. Rhoda, June 30, } 5S, d. May 10, '59 ; 
83^. iv. Benj., May 23, '00. 

68. 84. Timothy Rockwood, 5 s. 1 m. S. W. of Holliston Meetingdiouse, where 
Isaac Kibby resides, was distinguished for energy, industry and integrity, and 
was much relied on as an appraiser of estates. He in. 1st, Elizabeth Perry, 
Jan. 24, 1750-1 ; 2d w., Jemima (Leland) Underwood, Mar. 12, 'G7 ; 3d' 
Alice Littlefield, Aug. 22, '71, and 4th, Deborah (Leland) Fairbanks, Jan 
15, '87, who d. May 21, 1805. He d. Feb. 21, 1800. He had 

91. 85. i. Timothy, 6 b. in Med. Oct. 30, 175], s. \ m. N. of his father, in Holl. ; 

n. Elizabeth, Dec. 23, 1753, d. May 1, 1849^ ni. Col. Simeon Cutler, of H. ; 

80. in. Samuel, 6 Oct. 30, '55, d. yg. ; v. Deborah, 6 Dec. 10, '58, m. James 

Mellen, Esq., of Holl. ; vi. Rhoda, (i Oct. 12, '03, m. Ezra Brown, of H. ; 
88. vn. Aaron, 6 Jly. 6, '72, d. yg. ; vin. Miriam, 6 Dec. 13, '73, d. yg! ; 
ix. Lucretia, 6 Jly. 25, '75, m. Rev. Drury Fairbanks, r. Plym., N. H., 
whose descendants r. in and near St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; x. xVnna, 6 June 14 
'77, m. Sampson Bridges, of Hopk. ; 
259. 89. xi. Luther, Jan. 7, '80 in. Ruth Perry; 2d, Ruth (Littlefield) Temple 
r. Hoi. ; xn. Calvin, 6 Dec. 25, '83, d. yg. 



85. 91. Timothy Rockwood, 6 jun., w. Margaret Parker, m. Dec. 12, 1770, r. Holl. ; 
y 92 i. Nathan/ Aug. 8, '71, m. Sep. 20, '93, Joanna Day, and settled in 

Hopk. ; ii. Elizabeth, 7 Apl. 10, '73, d. yg. ; 
20D. 93. in. Nahum, 7 Dec, 1775, m. Elizabeth Newton, s. in Leicester; 

94. iv. Wm., 7 Nov. 13, '77, m. Polly Burnet, r. H., had Wm. (d.) and Mary; 

108. 95. v. Aaron, 7 Oct. 28, '79, m. Mille Watkins, r. Med., and Bell.; 

vi. Sophia, 7 Oct. 12, '82, m. Abner Ilolbrook ; and 2d, Martin Cutler; 

90. vn. Ezra, 7 Nov. 5, '84, m. Polly Stone ; 2d, Betsey (Stone) Perry, r. H.; 

vin. Milla, 7 Dec. 20, '80, m. EUhu Whiting, r. Barre ; 

97. ix. Timothy, 7 Jan. 17, '89, in. Polly Chamberlain ; 2d, Nancy Adams, r. H.; 

98. x. Calvin, 7 June 3, '92, m. Lois How, r. H. 



220 ROCKWOOD. 

69. 99. Asa Rock wood/' w. Sybil Littlefield, r. Holliston, had 

100. i. Samuel, 6 who m. Hanh. Pond, Jan. 7, '87, s. in Milford, and mi. to 

New Braintrce and Oakham; II. Sybil, 6 m. Ellis, of Med., and r. with 

her son, a surveyor in Hopk. ; ill. Lydia, 6 m. Saunders, of Milfd. 

70. 101. Moses, inherited the W. half of the homestead in Med. He was 

an industrious, frugal, kind and veracious man, possessed of an astonishing 
memory, and seemed to know the history of his vicinity and race as well as 
if he had lived there over since the beginning of the settlement. Many aii 
evening did I listen in my youth and early manhood to his narratives of the 
past. He was nearly 11 ys. old at the death of his grd. uncle, Benj., who 
was born in 1G51, and well remembered him. He m Hannah Ellis, and 
had only 
102. i. Moses, Cpt., d. Mar. 12, 1854, a ab. '82. He being an only child, 
settled with his father, and inherited his integrity, industry and tenacity of life. 
AVhen 80 years eld, his memory was unimpaired, and his active labors un- 
remitted. In early life he embarked in trapping in the then unbroken wil- 
derness of W. N, York, — learned the languages of the Indians ; and many 
a lon<* evening did the author in his boyhood, listen with delight to the history 
of his romantic adventures, receiving therefrom a bias for life. Capt. R. in. 
Lois Johnson, Jly. 1, 1798, dg. of Joseph Johnson, of Hoi., by w. Mercy 
Cozzens, b. June 3, 1767. They had 

103. i. Simeon, 7 Sep. 21, '99, m. Melatiah Clark ; n. Johnson, 7 d. yg. ; 

104. in. Hannah Ellis 7 Dec. 11, '02, m. Geo. Blake, of Med; 
100. iv. Calvin 7 m. Elizabeth Marsh, r. II., ; 

v. Eliza 7 m. Newell Lovering ; 
107. vi. Moses, Mar. 24, 1809, m. Adaline Johnson, r. Holl. 

95. 108. Aaron, w. Mille Watkins, r. Med. and Bell. ; 

109. I. Newell, 8 Jly. 29, 1801, m. Ann S. Winter; 2d, Susan Leland ; 3d, 
Sarah Smith ; n. Mary Ann, 8 Feb. 8, '05, m. Simeon Fisher, 1824 ; 

110. in. Aaron W., 8 May 2, '07, r. Bos., m. Almira Cobb, has Angelina, 

Jane M. ; iv. Caroline, 8 Feb. 8, '10, d. Mar. 1G, '24, at Bellingham ; 
v. Mille P., 8 Aug. 4, '12, d. Jly. 9, '24, at Bellingham; 

111. vi. Ezra B., 8 Bee. 29, '16, m. Hannah Sargent, r. Fitchburg ; 

vii. Harriot, 8 May 25, '21, m. Addison Warfield, of Holl, has Aaron R. ; 
vni. Sabrina Morse^Mar. 25, '23. 

93. 112. Nahum, 7 Bea., w. Elizabeth Newton, r. Leicester ; i. Mary 8 , Apl. 12, 
1801, r. um. atL. ; II. Ursula 8 , (d.) m. Edwin Waite of L. ; in. Elizabeth, 8 
m. Elijah, and 2d, Nathan Harkness, rs. Worcester; iv. Timothy P. 8 

89. 113. Luther, 6 m. Ruth Perry, and 2d, Ruth (Littlefield) Temple, inherits the 
homestead in II., and had i. Miriam, 7 Aug. 2, 1803, d. March 10, 1814; 
ii. Albert Perry/ June 9, 1805, m. Nancy Haven, r. Salt Lake City, Utah ; 
in. Elbridge L., 7 Oct. 3, 1808, a. Aug. 7, 1813; iv. Mary Ann, 7 June 
13, '10, d.°Aug. 5, '13 ; v. Thomas T., 7 June 5, '16, m. Eviline Leonard, 
rs. Norton ; vi. Eviline, 7 Sept. 4, '14, d. Feb. 17, '19; vn. Ruth, 7 June 5 
'16, m. Eli II. Warren, rs. H. ; VIII. Elsie L., 7 Dec. 13, '19, rs. H.; 
ix. Elbridge L , 7 Nov. 24, '24, m. Elizabeth Phipps, rs. H., has i. Wil- 
bur, 8 • ii. a son. 6 

109. 135. Newell, 8 w. Ann Sophia Winter, m. Apl. 20, 1823, d. Aug. 15, '24, 
a. 21 ; 2d w., Susan Leland, m. Mar. 12, '26, d. Bee. 28, '29, a. 23 ; 3d 








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w., Sarah Smith, m. Oct. 6, '30, rs. IIoll. had i. Ann Sophia, 1 ' Dec. 10, '27 ; 
n. Goo. Leland, 1 ' Dec. 9, '29; in. Sarah Jemima, 8 Oct. 17, '31, d. Nov. 
24, '33. 



80. 130> Elisba Rockwood, w. Hannah Leland, dg. of Saml. L., the s. of Simon 
and Hanh. Partridge L., and grd. s. of Dea. Win. L., by w. Mehetabcl 
Breck, dg. of John and Mehetabel Morse 13. Her mother was Mary 
Leland, b. Feb. 19, 1753, dg. of Henry L., by w. Keziah Bullard, and grd. 
dg. of Ens. Henry L., by w. Mary Morse, r. Slierborn, had T. John, 7 Feb. 
27, 1801, m. Adaline Farrington, r. S. Abington ; n. Clarissa, 7 July 17, 
1803, d. urn : in. Charles/ Mar. 27, 1806, in. Lois E. Farrington, dg. of 
Alfred F., ofWrenth., by w. Harriet Pond, sis.. of Rev. Enoch P., D. D., 
r. Natick, had i. Eden Maria? Mar. 11, 1834, m. Isaac N. Travis, of N., 

had Emma E., ,J Sept. 9, '54; n. Adeline* Mar. 3, '37; in. John* 

Jan. 4, '44 ; iv. Chs. E? Jan. 14, '4G. 
iv. Joseph, 7 and v. Mary, 7 Jly. 13, 1809, both d. yg. ; vi. Samuel Leland, 7 
Rev., A. M., b. Nov. 16, 1810, m. Christina Gilbert, dg. of James G., of 
Mansfield, by w. Deborah Sprague, the dg. of Gen. George Godfrey, of 
Taunton, and grd. dg. of James G , of Norton, a soldier in the French war 
of 1755. Mr. R. grad. at Amherst Col., 183(5, and was ordained at Han- 
son, where he still remains. He had i. Clarissa Erances? Apl. 15, 1842, 

d. May 8, '42; n. Samuel Gilbert? Mar. or May 1(5, '44; in. John 

Edwards? May 1G, '4G ; iv. Christina Eliza? June 1, '50. 
vn. Elizabeth Ann, 7 Apl. 1, 1814, (d.) m. James Austin, had i. Ann? (d.) 
vin. Hannah Adams, 7 Dec. 28, 1817, r. Natick. 

45. 140. Ebenezer Rockwood, 5 A. M., M. D., possessed a " character of great 
worth and acknowledged excellence," which his posterity and the race would 
do well to emulate. The excellent spirit which dwelt first in his ancestors 
lived in him, and throughout his long life he adhered to sound Christian 
principles in all his intercourse in society, in all his relations to the Church, 
and in all his influence over his family. He grad. at H. Col. 1773, studied 
medicine, entered the army of U. S. as surgeon, and afterward settled as a 
physician at Wilton, became eminent in his profession, and ever had an ex- 
tensive practice. On Feb. 10, 1830, then in his 84th year, he passed to his 
final reward, amidst the grief of friends and the regrets of the community. 
He m. June 10, 1779, Mary Emerson, b. Nov. 14, 1753, d. Mar. 9, 1848, 
(dg. of Rev. Daniel E., of Hollis, N. II., b. at Reading, May 1G, 1716,) 
by whom he had 

i. Win. E.,°Mar. 22, 1780, m. Oct. 22, 1812, Abigail Conant, dg. of 
Dea. Josiah C, of Hollis., rs. Merrimack, N. II., has 
I. Wm. J.? rs. Yonkers, N. Y. ; n. Elizabeth E. 

146. 142. ii. Ebenezer, Esq., A. M., June 2, 1781, d. May S, 1815 ; 

in. Betsey, Dec. 9, 1782, d. Oct G, 1846, in. Timothy Abbot, Esq. ; 
iv. Polly," Aug. 6, 1784, resides in Hollis, N. II. 

145. 143. v. Lubin, Apl. 6, 178G, d. May 15, 1826, in the triumphs of faith ; 

vi. Daniel, A. M., Oct. 15, 1787, d. Jan. 31, 1821, at Cuba. He settled 
as a lawyer in Boston, where I knew and regarded him as a gentleman 
of great urbanity, and destined for eminence ; Vii. Hannah," Feb. 19, 1790, 
d. Nov. 7, 1808; vin. Sally, Jly. 18, 1792, m. Rev. Leonard Jewett, 
r. Temple and Hollis, N. II. ; ix. Matilda, 6 Nov. 30, 1793, d. Apl. 21, 1823. 

143. 145. Lubin, 6 was a Christian of sound orthodox principles and firm esfablished 



222 ROCKWOOD. 

character. He was a devoted child, a worthy citizen, and a kind and devoted 
husband and father ; and his memory will long be cherished with respect and 
gratitude. He m. Lydia Burton, dg. of Abraham B., of Hollis. who still 
survives, by whom lie had 

i. Hannah, 7 Jly. 8, 1814, d. Apl. 13, 1832, eminent for piety and talent; 
ir. L. Burton, 7 Rev., A. M., Apl. 8, 1816, who grad. at, Dar. Col. 1839, 
and at Union Theo. Sem., New York, 1843 ; was financial agent of that 
Sem. 1843-50, and on Jly. 10, of the latter year, he was installed as col- 
league with the venerable and excellent Calvin Chapin, D. D., over the 
Congl. chb. at Bocky Hill, Ct,, which delicate and important station he now 
fills. He m. Abby Anne Abbot, May 1, 1845, dg. of Dea. Ezra A., of 
Wilton, N. H., and had i. Arthur Burton? Nov. 20, '46, d. Oct. 4, '47 ; 

ii. Edward Nelson, 8 Oct. 9, '48, d. Feb. 10, '49; 

in. Sarah Hale, 8 Dec. 9, '49; iv. Fanny Larcom? Aug. 23, '51; 

v. Wm. Emerson 8 Nov. 5, '54. 
in. L. Henritta, 7 May 24, 1819, d. June 22, '40, with strong and triumph- 
ant hopes in Christ ; 

iv. Mary E., 7 May 14, '21, m. Col. I. P. Clark, Dec. 5, '39, r. N. Ipsw., N. H.; 
v. Betsey D., 7 Apl. 19, '25, m. Chs. S. Davis, Esq., Aug. 28, '45, vs. Bos- 
ton, Mass., had i. Henrietta J?., 8 Aug. 28, '46, d. Sept. 10, '46; 
ii. Charles A., 8 Apl. 7, '47 ; in. Walter Ii. 8 Nov. 9, '49. 

142. 14G. Ebenezer Rockwood, 6 Esq., A. M. grad. at H. U., 1802, read law, s. 
in Bos., where he d. May 8, 1815, at the age of 34 ys. While he lived 
his intimate associates were of the highest circle of talent and refinement. 
Numbers of them, ere merit had ceased to be a passport, rose to the highest stations 
of honor in the gift of their fellow-citizens ; and had Mr. Rockwood been spared, 
such were his talents and address, and such his moral worth, that he could hardly 
have failed of a full share of such honors. One fact illustrates the nobility of his 
friends, and the esteem in which he was held. When his death was announced, the 
members of a class club of which he was a founder while at the University, met and 
resolved, as one of their testimonials, " that $500 of their funds be put out on inter- 
est for the aid of the first of his children who should wish a col. education," and 
thus it would have been cheerfully expended had there been need. The following 
obituary appeared in the Weekly Messenger of June 2, 1815 : — 

The late Mr. Rockwood but a few days since, was seen in our judicial tribunals, 
giving proof of powers of mind destined, as was anticipated, to adorn the bar and pub- 
lic assemblies of our country. Without the aid of fortune, and with no friends but 
those attached to him by his own merit, he was advancing with undeviating step to 
the first rank in his profession. His example has illustrated the truth, that patronage 
is not necessary to talents ; but that associated with virtue, they lead, with an inde- 
pendent vigor, over every obstruction, to the honors and advantages of society. He 
came into Boston a stranger. But there was in his exterior such a recommendation r 
of dignity and intelligence, that notice and respect were soon attracted to him. Ac- 
quaintance became esteem, and the great number of those who regarded him, are left 
to feel for his loss a regret much more lasting than was the period permitted to their 
friendship. 

Mr. Rockvvood's mind was naturally of a high cast. His understanding was 
sound and clear, and extremely rapid in its deductions. It possessed a springing 
energy which supplied at the same time quickness and force. lie was not habituated 
to long trains of reasoning — while others were arranging their arguments, he threw 
out his bold and luminous opinions. They were received with surprise, often with 
incredulity — but all who reasoned justly, came at last to the same result, though by 
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Although he was young, his knowledge was abundant ; for this, however, he was 
not much indebted to books. 

He never resorted to them, when he had opportunities for observation, and 

even in that profession, in which great erudition is almost a sufficient qualification, 
and learning often succeeds where talent alone fails, he seldom had recourse to books 
except as authorities, — his arrangement, his argument and his decision, were origi- 
nal, and apparently intuitive. ° 

But these powers, though rare and valuable, are not all that is worthy to be 
described in Mr. Rockwood. Clear and true as was the glance of his mind, this was 
not more admirable than his noble and generous heart, The selfish man would have 
shrunk in his presence and felt how elevated a principle of action is disinterestedness. 
He was ever more active, judicious, and even cautious, when others were concerned. 
The energy of his understanding, and the ardor of his feelings, found their true 
focus in the interest of others. He was full of affection and humanity —yet he had 
little of_ that tenderness which often weakens the best resolves. He neither shrunk 
from pain himself when it was salutary, nor hesitated in like circumstances to" inflict 
it on others. 

_ He was called from amidst the most active scenes in life to the bed of death. He 
did indeed desire to live ; for to him the prospect of life presented a scene of use- 
fulness, of tender attachments, and of advancing reputation. Few had less to fear and 
few had more to resign ; yet he looked up to Heaven with that humility which 'fears 
to trust even the approbation of conscience. He could not approach the throne of 
his Maker without trembling; yet with that decision which uniformly accompanied 
him, he bent his few remaining hours to prepare for death. Religion, that principle 
so congenial with great and good minds, was here his first resource. By her aid he 
was enabled to turn, with resignation and tranquillity, from the endearments of life 
to sever the tenderest ties which bound him to this world, and to await his last mo- 
ments, with a steady and confiding mind. 

He m. Abigail Breese Hazard, (now the w. of Eev. Dr. Tho. E. Yermilye 
of New York,) dg.of Hon. Ebenr. Hazard, of Phila., (P. M. General under 
Washington,) by w. Abigail Arthur, b. Aug. 5, 1759, dg. of Cot. Joseph 
A., by w. Jane (Chevalier) Anderson, (b. at Phila. Nov. 3, 1723 m at 
Bos. Jan 4, '49-50.) Capt. A. (b. in Bos. July 2, 1715) was the 'son of 
Joseph A., senr., (b. st Salem, Apl. 11, 1G91,) by w. Abigail A. (b. in 
Bos. 1G96, and d. Aug. 12, 1761. Mr. Rockwood had 
i. Abigail Arthur, 7 Sept. 19, 1808, resides a maiden lady in New York • 
ii. Ebenezer Hazard/ Aug. 1810, grad. M. D. at Yale Col., 1S32 and rs 
as a physician at Enfield, m. Juliet Bliss, fr. W. Springfield, b. Au* 16* 
1811 m Nov. 7 '32, d. June 11, '54; and 2d, Adelia 0. Wilson, dg. of 
tal. Smith, fr. Reboboth ; and had i. Ellen Louisa, 8 Jan. 31, 1831 at 
Longmeadow ; ir. Ebenezer Arthur? Jan. G, 1839, at Enfie'ld ■ 
in. Charlotte Elizabeth,' Feb. 3, 1842, at E. ; iv. Charles Ers- 
kme,* June 20, 1847. 
in. Yv r m. Erskine, 7 June, 1812, d. urn. 1SC5 at Havana, Cuba • 
iv. Charles Green,' Jly. 19, 1814, rs. a banker at Mauch Chunk Pa m 
June 23, 1840, Sarah Smith, dg. of Geo. B. S., of New York, by' w * 
Joanna Vermilye, and had i. Wm! Erskine, May 21, 1841, d. Jly. »42 ■ 
ii. Chs. Green? Jan. 11, '43; in. Joanna Smith,* June 13 '45 ■ 
iv. Elizabeth Vermilye? May 30, '48, d. May 6, '53. 

43. 150. Elisha, 5 jun., m. Mary Farnsworth, Apl. 29, l7G2,who d. Nov. 11, '65 
He m. 2d, Abigail Stone, b. July 8, 1749, of Groton, m. June 4, '71 He 
rm. fr. G. to Chesterfield, N. H. He had, t. Hannah, Feb. 10 1763 



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(1. yg. ; 2d, Mollv,' ; Oct. 20, '64, d. yg. ; in. Elisha, 6 Apl. 16, '72, d. Sop. 
9, 77 ; iv. Erame, 6 July 21, '73, ra. Deraatus Bennet, of Brattleboro'.Vt., 
and d. Feb. 4, 1810, without issue; v. Mary, 6 Aug. 13, '7a, d. July 15, 
1818, m. Roswell Parker, of Putney, Vt., had Emme, 7 m. Josiah Aiken ; 
vr. Abigail, Sep. 10, '76, d. Sep. 7, '77 ; 

155. 151. vn. Elisba, 6 Kev., D. D., m. May 9, '78, Susanna B. Parkman ; 
161. 152. vin. Wm., 6 July 27, '80, m. Anna Horton ; 

168. 153. ix. Jobn, 6 July 7, '82, m. Sally Green, of Westmoreland ; 
174. 154. x. Otis, 6 Rev., A. M., May 1, '91, m. Maria Johnston. 

151. 155. Elisba, 6 D.D., orad. atDar. Col., 1802, and became one of its tutors for two 

years. He was ord. at Westboro', Mass., Oct, 28, 1808, m. Oct. 5, 1809, 
Susanna Brigham Parkman, dg. of Breek P., Esq., and grd. dg. of Rev. 
Ebenezer P., the first minister of W., and b. Apl. 13, 1782, and d. June 4, 
1830. He next m. Feb. 21, 1838, Emily W. Herrick, b. Dec. 18, 1798, 
dg. of Abel Wilder, of Keene, N. IF, and wid. of Rev. Osgood Herrick, 
formerly of Millbury. Mr. Rockwood continued the minister of W. for the 
now remarkable term of 27 years, where his labors were greatly blessed and 
an amount of good accomplished through his instrumentality, to be measured 
by no scale in an angel's hand. Long may he survive, the object of our 
gratitude and reverence, until we salute him as our father, where sacred ties 
^hall be sundered no more. 

He was dismissed from W., March 11, 1835, and installed at Swanzey, 
N.H., Nov. 16, '36, where he continues his labors with great acceptance, 
though now in his 77th year. He had, at W., 
i. Elisba Parkman, 7 June 19, 1811, d. Jan. 22, 1828. 
157. 156. ii. Wm. Otis, 7 Feb. 12, 1814; in. Susanna < Brigham,' Oct. 1,1815, 
d. May 12, '43, m. Dea. Christopher C. Denny, of Keene, Oct. 10, '37, had, 

Henry Rockwood* Feb. 22, '39 ; 
iv. HannahAbiga,il, 7 Feb. 1, 1817, m. Feb. 1G, '42, Dexter Brigham, 
jun., of Harnden & Co.'s Express, and had, I. Susan Emily? Apl. 19, '46, 

d. Au*. 27, '46 ; n. Rockwood? July 27, '48 ; 
v. Robert Sreck, Jan. 17, 1S22, d. Jan. 17, '22. 

156. 157. Wm. Otis, 7 m. Dec. 6,1842, Helen-Mar More, of Quincy, 111., pre- 

vious of Auburne, N. Y., settled in Indianapolis, Ind., and had, I. Helen- 
Mar, 8 Sep. 13, 1844 ; n. Susan Brigham, 8 June 8, '46, d. Apl. 7, '47 ; 
in. Wm. Elisha, 8 Oct. 26, '47 ; iv. Charles Brigham, 8 Nov. 7, 'o0 ; 
v. Brock Parkman, 8 Nov. 6, '51. 

152. 161. Wm., 6 m. Dec, 1804, Anna Horton, from Brattleboro', who d. May % 

1806. He m. 2d, Chloe Heminwav, Apl. 2, 1807, dg. of Jacob IF, Esq., 

of Bridport, Vt., and b. Oct. 19, 1787. He rs. a respectable farmer, at 

Bridport, had, 

i. Wm. Horton, 7 by 1st w., who m. Susan G. West, dg. of John \\ ., Esq., ot 

New York, and rs. in N. Yk. a merchant ; 

ii. Elisha Heminway, 7 M. D., Jan. 6, 1808, m. Eliza Thompson, dg of 

Judge Amos T., of Poultney, Vt., and is. in Newark, N. Y., where he has 

a good practice and standing in society, lie had, 

i. Wm. T., s Jan. 17, 1836 ; ii. Harriet Grace? Nov. 13, 1840 ; 
in. Derastus Bennett, 7 Apl. 15, 1810, m. Mary Flinn, of Buffalo, r. Chi- 
cago, engaged in Lake navigation ; 
iv. Henry Otis, 7 Dec. 17, 1812, ra, Eliza A. Martin, r. New York ; 



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v. Daniel Parker, 7 May 27, 1815, m. Oct. 24, '48, Sarah B. Wilder, dg. 
of Abel W., of Kcene, N. H., r. Bridport, and lias Brigham 8 b. Sep. 8, 

'49 ; Elizabeth IF., 8 b. Nov. 1, '50; Jamie, 8 b. Jan. 21,' 53 ; 
vr. Charles Almeron, 7 Aug. 29, 1817, m. Emeline Barker, of Fredonia, 
N.Y., and r. a merchant at Cincinnati, O. ; vn. Harriet Ann, 7 Mar. 27, 1821, 
m. Nicholas W. West, of New York, and d. without issue, Jan. 9, '41 ; 
vni. Susan Elizabeth, 7 Oct. 13, 1823, m. Chs. N. Hayward, of Bridport. 

153. 168. Jobn, G m. June 26, 1817, Sally Green, dg. of Cpt. Levi G., of Westmore- 

land, resided on the paternal farm in Chesterfield until 1835, when he rm. to 

Ottawa, 111., where he now resides. He had, i. Mary Abigail, 7 Sep. 5, 

1818, m. Sep. 18, '44, Rev. James Bice Dunn, of Collinsville, 111. ; 

ii. Elisha Green, 7 Mar. 11, 1820, d. Jan. 29, '21 ; m. Martha Elizabeth, 7 

Nov. 8, 1821, d. Nov. 20, '29; iv. Laura Maria, 7 May 28, 1823; 

v. Loring Otis, 7 May 28, '23 ; vi. John Adams, 7 July 3, '25, m. May 23, 

'50, Sarah Jane Lewis, of Berwick, 111., dg. of John L., had, 

Emily Beach 8 June 1, '51, d. July 21, '54 ; 
vn. Wm. Henrv, 7 Nov. 21, '26; vni. Levi Green, 7 Mar. 13, '29, d. Feb. 
19, '36; ix. Efisha Earl, 7 Sep. 29, '34. 

154. 174. Rev. Otis Rockwood, A. M., graduated at Midd. Col., Vt., 1813, and 

at the Theol. Sem., Andover, 1817; after which he spent six months 
in the 1st Cong. Socy. in Charlestown, where he had a call to settle as 
Colleague Pastor with the Rev. Dr. Morse, and at the same time a call 
from the 1st Cong. Chh. and Socy. in Lynn. After due deliberation 
he concluded to accept the latter, and was ordained July 1st, 1818. He 
found that ancient and venerable chh. in very depressed and disheartening 
circumstances, being reduced to 40 members, only 8 of whom were males, 
and the Socy. much embarrassed with debt ; and their house of worship so 
much dilapidated as to be deemed unworthy of repair. During his ministry 
there of 14 years, the chh. was increased to 130 members — their pecuniary 
obligations discharged and their house of worship rebuilt. 
In Dr. " Cooke's Centuries " in Lynn, there is an interesting notice of Mr. 
Rockwood's ministry in that city, from which the following is an extract : 
" But the true importance of the work which he did here consisted in break- 
ing the force of the tide which was bearing all to destruction, and beginning 
to set it an opposite direction. He found here a church having but two 
praying families, and left it with many. He found few minds evincing an 
attachment for the doctrines of the cross, and left a church prepared to unite 
in a successor who gave fearless utterance to those doctrines. He found the 
church declining in life and strength, and left it in a state of thrift and 
rapid increase. And he has been honored of God to break the succession of 
an erroneous and life-depressing ministry, and head a new series of the 
preachers of the truth, to whose labors God will attach his blessing ; and 
whoever comes in after generations to write the history of this church, and 
trace events as time will then have developed them, will trace great results to 
causes which had their spring under his labors. 

" The honor which the providence of God put upon his ministry was this, 
that it was the turning point of life to an apparently expiring church. He 
sacrificed his own interests, and perilled his prospects of a happy settlement in 
the ministry, to make here what was thought to be the doubtful experiment 
whether this church could live. Such instances of self-sacrifice on the part 
of ministers are little thought of. With most it is taken as a first principle 
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that ministers have a selflsh motive for every act. And when he declined a 
call to one of the best churches in the State, that he might unite his fortunes 
here with an apparently linking cause, he had no credit for his self-denial : 
it was even turned to his disadvantage ; and many inferred that he must be 
a small affair if he would consent to labor here with such a forlorn hope of a 
church. So little do the world, judging others by themselves, appreciate the 
moral sublime in self-denial. But it matters not. He has not lost his 
reward. Events in after years will show — they have already begun to show 
— more good accomplished, that is, more honor achieved, by that self-sacrific- 
ing ministry than is ordinarily secured by a ministry in our largest churches. 
God has honored him by setting him at the head of a many-branching stream 
of life-giving influence here, where children and children's children will sec 
cause to call him blessed." 

The effect of the sea air upon Mr. R.'s health urged him to seek an inland 
situation, and his pastoral relation was dissolved, July 1st, 1832. He sub- 
sequently preached in Hopkinton, in Berkley, and Wayland, and in Canaan, 
N. Y., where he had invitations to settle. He was at length installed over 
the 1st Cong. Chh. in S. Woodstock, Ct., where he labored with success till 
1844, when his ministerial relation was again dissolved. For several years 
past he with his family have had their residence in Boston. 
He m. Maria Johnston, July 28, 1819, dg. of Nathaniel Johnston, Esq., of 
Hillsboro', N. H., by w. Catharine Clark, and had, 
i. Nathaniel Johnston, 7 m. June, 1855, Emily Daniels; 
ii. Charlotte Clark 7 ; in. Edward Otis 7 ; 
iv. Abby Ann, 7 m. Hon. Edward Kent, r. Bangor; v. Catharine Elizabeth 7 . 

54. 177. Benj., 6 m. Lucy Ware, b. Mar. 25, 1787, m. Jan. 17, 1810, dg. of 
Josiah W., s. in N. Wrentham, and had, i. Samuel, 7 Jan. 7, 1811. 
181. 179. ii. Benj., 7 Nov. 8, 1812 ; 

187. 180. m. Elisba, 7 Sep. 21, 1814; iv. Lucy M., 7 July 12, 1820, m. Ward A. 
Clark, Oct. '45, r. N. Wrenth., bad Willard P., Dec. 4, '46. 

179. 181. Benj., 7 m. Sarah R. Pond, b. Jan. 15, 1815, m. Dec. 27, '35, dg. of 

Jacob P., by w. Rebecca , r. N. Wrentham, and had, i. Benj. H., 8 

Jan. 20, 1839; n. Stephen T., 8 Jan. 18, '41 ; in. Sarah Maria, 8 Aug. 5, 
'43; iv. Nathan H., 8 Mar. 22, '46; v. Eunice A., 8 Oct. 27, '48; 
vi. Elisha W., 8 Mar. 10, '51 ; vn. Elijah C., 8 Oct. 9, '53. 

180. 187. Elisha, 7 m. Elizabeth Hewins, b. Jan. 6, 1815, m. Oct. 21, '41, dg. of 

Ebenr. H., by w. Anna , r. N. Wrenth., and had, i. Edwin O., 8 Nov. 

4, 1842 ; n. Walter H., 8 Aug. 23, 1850. 

24. 188. Joseph Rocket, 4 was sent in early manhood to keep garrison at Oxford, 
and became enamored with the country, and resolved on settling there. After 
the dispersion of the French Huguenots and the acquisition of a title to O. by 
a second company of settlers, he was upon the ground, and on the 5th of 
Feb., 1715, in the first division of lands, drew 60 acres where Oxford vil- 
lage now stands, and in 1730, a 12 acre lot on the N. side of Great Swamp. 
He was unfortunate in his location, however rich might have been his soil, 
for the substratum was too coarse for capillary attraction, and in seasons of 
unfrequent showers he must have lost his crops. This was probably learned 
by experience, for his sons settled in other parts of the town, and particularly 
in the S. E. part. He must have been an acquisition to the strength of the 
settlement, for his mother was a Twitchell, and " if a Twitchell, strong," said 



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the ballad of his day ; and several of bis grd. nephews, to my knowledge, had 
the strength of two common laborers, coupled with rare activity and modera- 
tion of diet. He m. Hannah , and had at O., Feb. 9, 1714-15, 

I. Sibila 5 ; it. Rebecca, 5 Dec. 4, 17; in. Mary, 5 May 11, '19; 
iv. Joseph, 5 Dec 11, '21, d. Dec. 11, '21; 

191. 189. v. Joseph, 5 Dec. 7, '23, d. 1749; vi. Sarah, 5 Nov. 16, '26; 

vii. John, 5 Mar. 5, '30, d. Nov. 26, '35 ; 
vin. Hannah, 5 Dee. 12, '33, d. Sep. 26, '40 ; 

192. 190. ix. John, 5 Nov. 7, '35. 

189. 191. Joseph Rocket, 5 jun., d. a husbandman at 0., 1749, and his estate was 

appraised at £783, 19s. He m. Mary Pratt, Feb. 2, 1743-4, who m. 2d, 
Mr. Jedediah Barton, Apl. 27, '65. He had at 0., i. Hannah, 6 Mar: 14, 
1745, m. Abner Claflin, '63; n. Rebecca, Feb. 21, '47-8. 

190. 192. John Rocket, 5 m. Hannah Frost, June 14, 1753, who m. 2d, Wm. 

Lamb, '92. They had at Oxfd. ; 
197. 193. i. James Frost, 8 Nov. 24, 1754, m. Sarah Pratt; 
204. 194. ii. Joseph, Feb. 5. '57, m. Martba Shumway; in. Samuel, Dec. 1, 

'59, s. and d. at Fitz Wm., N. H. ; iv. Salmon, Mar. 15, '62; v. Sarah, 6 

Aug. 25, '64, m. Theoph. Hamlin, '88, of Hallowell, Me. ; vi. Mary, Mar. 

7, '67, m. Pettingale; vn. Hannah, 6 Mar. 21, '70, m. Amos Patridge, 

of Augusta, Me. ; vm. Salmon, June 9, '72, m. Sally Marsh, rm. and d. 

Augusta, Me. ; ix. John, 6 Dec. 27, '74, s. and d. at Belfast, Me.; 

x. Ruth, Mar. 27, '77, m. Moses Patridge, of Augusta, Me. 

193. 197. James Frost Rockwood, m. Sarah Pratt, May 16, 1776, and had, 

198. i. Frost 7 ; n. Elias 7 ; in. Warren 7 ; iv. Rebecca, 7 June 15, 1783, at 
Oxf.; v. Fanny, 7 July 12, '85; vi. Samuel, 7 Aug. 24, '87, m. and had 
John and Samuel; 

202. vn. Rufus, 7 June 27, '89 ; 

203. vin. John, 7 July 5, ? 91 ; ix. Sally; x. Mary. 



194. 204. Joseph Rockwood, m. Martha Shumway, Nov. 11, 1779, and had at 




vi. Bet.-ey, 7 Aug. 24, '91, m. Ezra Davis, of Oxfd, Dec. 12, 1813, had, 
Ezra Davis, jun., who m. Ann Harwood, r. O., has Jane E?, Chs. 
H.\ Frank. P. 8 
vn. Polly, 7 Mar. 24, '94, m. Asa Wood, of Thompson, Ct., Mar. 11, 1813, 
has 6 chd. ; vm. Josephus, 7 May 1, '97, d. unm. in Me. ; ix. Ruel, 7 June 
13, '99, d. Jan. 20, 1802 ; x. Charles, 7 July 21, 1801, m. Jane McFarland, 
rs. in Hopk., and has Moses? Robert, 9 and Gibbs 8 ; 
xi. Hannah Frost, 7 June 27, 1804, m. Learned Sears, has 8 chd. 

14. 207. Joseph Rocket, 3 who seems to have inherited the paternal seat E. of Men- 
don Village, had land assigned him 1707, and subsequently on the E. side 
of Bear Hill, then included in M. ; and in 1718 a lot E. of the village. 

He m. Mary . and had at M. i. Mary, 4 Jly. 31, 1690 ; n. Johannab, 4 

Aug. 15, '92, m. Eliphalct Holbrook, Nov. 7, 1716; 

214. 207?,. in. Joseph, 4 Aujr. 4. '94, d. Jan. 22, 1722; 

216. 208. iv. John, 4 Aug. 22, '96; v. Margaret, 4 Feb. 8, '98-9; 



228 ft o c k w o o d . 

209. vi. Samuel, 4 Dec. 29, 1700, m. Elizabeth Wood, Apl. 9, '22 ; 

210. vii. Josiah, 4 Sept. 10, 1702; vm. Trial, 4 Jly. 31, '04; 

222. 212. ix. Richard, 4 Dec. 10, '0G, m. Sarah Thayer ; x. Susanna, 4 Oct. 15, '09 ; 
224. 213. xi. Benjamin, 4 May 8, '11. 

207J. 214. Joseph Rocket, 4 m. Elizabeth Turner, Nov. 28, 1717, and had at M., 
i. Joseph, 5 Oct. 25, 1719 ; n. Joseph, 5 Jly. 30, '22, posthumous. 

208. 216. John Rocket, 4 jun., had land assigned him at Bear Hill, 1719, and after- 
wards. He m. Deborah , who d. Jly. 24, 1750. He next m. Mar. 18, 

'51, Elizabeth Daniels, wid. of Ephm. D. She d. '58, while he was still liv- 
ing. He bad at M., 

227. 217. i. Ebenezer, 5 Sept. 7, 1718 ; 

229. 218. ii. John, 5 Aug. 24, '21 ; in. Simeon, 5 Aug. 23, **** ; 

iv. Abigail, 5 Mar. 2, **** ; v. Mary, 5 Jly. 12, 1725, at Bell ; 
257. 220. vi. Joseph, 5 Feb. 14, '28, at Bell., " d. Nov. 10, '78, in his 51st year ; " 
221. vii. Reuben, 5 Jan. 26, '29-30 at Mendon, ra. Lydia Green, Sept. 11, 
'54, and had, i. Hanh., Dec. 3, '55 ; n. Lydia, Feb. 8, '57 ; 
vm. Margery, 5 Apl. 29, '32; ix. Deborah, 5 May, 2, '34. 

212. 222. Richard Rocket, 4 m. Sarah Thayer, Feb. 12, 1729-30. He had, 
223. i. Josiah, 5 Dec. 22, "1730-1." 

213. 224. Benj. Rocket, 4 m. Margaret , who d. Oct. 9, 1739, and 2d, Meheta- 

bel , and had at Mendon in 1731, land assigned him on 2d Bridge 

River, near bis father's ; i. Johannah, 5 Nov. 30, 1735 ; n. Silence, 5 May 
17, '45 ; in. Benj., 5 Jly. 10, '50-1 ; iv. Seth, 5 Jan. 17, '52, pr. '52-3. 

217. 227. Ebenezer Rocket, 5 a cordwainer, d. Mar. 22, 1742. His estate was ap- 

praised by Saml. Hayward and Joshua Underwood, (fr. Holl.), at £36. 
His wid. Sarah administered. They had at M., 
228. i. Ebenezer, 6 Oct, 6, 1740. 

218. 229. John, 5 jun., m. Deborah , who in 1753 administered on his estate, 

inventoried Aug. 22, 1753, at £122 5s. She m. 2d, Amos Gates, who be- 
came guardian to her children by her 1st husband, viz. : 
i. Molly, b. Dec. 22, 1750 ; 
231. 230. ii. Simon, b. Oct. 8, 1752, and d. at Green, near Erie, Pa., 1823. 

230. 231. Simeon Rockwood, m. Damaris Olds, dg. of Silas Olds, of Brookfield, 

and resided successively at Brookfield, New Haven and Green, Pa., where his 
w. d. He had, 
236. 232. i. John, 7 Aug. 8, 1772, d. Feb. 21, 184G ; n. Win., 7 who sailed from 
New Haven unm., was never heard from afterwards ; in. Simon Thayer, 7 
Apl. 1795 or G, who became a soldier in the war of 1812, and afterwards re- 
moved with his parents and sister Sarah to Pa. He m. Mary Fenno, and rs. at 

Green, Pa.; iv. Polly, 7 d. ab. 1824, m. Carter, and had a large 

family at Brookfield ; v. Sally, 7 m. Levi Madden, fr., Hopk., and bad, 

i. Asia?; n. Africa? in. Euro-pi 1 ; iv. America? and v. Uzekiel 8 ; 

and d. at Green or Erie, ab. 1832 ; 
vi. Susan, 7 m. John Stoddard of Brookfield, and rra. N. Y. ; 

vn. Zeruiah, 7 d. unm. 1826, at Sturbridge ; vm. Bathsheba, 7 m. 

Newton, and r. Mass. ; ix. Damaris, 7 d. 1826, m. Foster Newton, r. 
Brookfield ; x. Deborah, 7 m. John or David Edwards, r. Rockdale, Pa. 



uockwood. 229 

232. 23G. John, 7 m. Hannah Upham, dg. of Nathan U., of Brookfield, and r suc- 
cessively at B., Warren and Munson, where they both deceased. They h-id 
i. Bathsheba,* Jan. 4, 1797, m. Orin Coy, r. Munson, had 

i. Ghs. F.» Mar. 7, 1821, d. Feb. 15, '52; n. Ann Maria 9 Nov 11 
23, m. James II. Beach, of Plym., Ct. ; in. Wm. Hurley? Sen 13' 
2o, d Jly. 26, '49; iv. Henry W.? Apl. 4, '29, m. Hanh M. Clove*' 
n. Maria, 8 Jly. 30, 1799, um. ; J 

« lr u H oT£'r 8 AP n 8 «! 18U3 ' IU - Ma ^ ParS ° nS ' d & 0f AmaS * *•> Of Spring- 
field; 2d, Mary C. Sargent from Brattleboro', and 3d, Susan Sargent from 
do., rs. as a landlord at Hartford, Ct., and has, 

1. John Thos. ; 11. Thos. II. ; in. Fred. S. ; iv. Franklin B. ; 
iv. Caroline, 8 June 20, 1805, m. Apl. 4, '20, Amos Ellis ■ 
v. Chester, 8 Mar. 22, 1808, d. Aug. 13, 1813 • 

vi. Gilbert/ Rev Aug. 29, 1811, m. Avis Bowman Hooper, clg. of Isaac 
H., of Braintree, Oakham and Boylston, by w. Sarah Wood, and r a Mis 
sionary among the Tuscarora Indians, N. Y. He had, 1. Sarah 9 Nov 18 
1838 ; 11. Gilbert? Aug. 28, '40 ; in. Harlan? May 11 '42 • 
iv. John? Apl. 24, '44 ; v. Avis Maria? Apl. 3, 46 ; ' 
«™ r, VH - Laura > 8 J1 y- 17 » 1814, m. Samuel Wellington Bliss, r.' SDrin*fieM 
239. 8 John Thayer, 8 Oct. 2, 1817, w. Caroline A. Granger, » June 29 '42 d 
May 26, '43 ; and 2d, Caroline Stebbins, b. Nov. 24 18^3 m Sen"^/ 
'45, r. a merchant at Springfield, had, ' ' F ' ' 

1. John Granger? May 18, '43, d. Aug. 20, '43 ; n. Mary E 9 Anl 
20, '47; in. Martha G.? Oct . 25, '49; iv. John F? May 5,\l. 

78. 240 Hezekiah Rockwood, c m. ElizabetlTTVood, 17S4; 2d, Betsy Leland, d ff . 
of Adam L., of Sherborn, and had at Upton, 1. Ezra/ Nov. 30 1785 A 
unm Jly 27 1804 ; n. Betsey/ Oct. 10, '87, d. unm., Mar. 23, 1808 

'92 dTnm ' ' "' *" HaVen ' ° f H ° pk - ; IV< Le ^ 7 Jan. 25, 

243. 242. v. Pearly/ Dec 7, '93, d. June, 1839; vi. Comfort/ Mar. 3 '90 m 

Lambert Pierce, r U. ; vii. Anna/ May 19, '98, d. 1854, m. Philo. Fisher" 

r. Frank. ; vm. Lovisa/ Aug. 2, 1801, d. yg. ' 

242. 243. Perley/m. Prudence Ward, and had at U., 1. Ezra, 8 Sep. 2 1819 m 
Amanda Starkey; n. Melita W., 8 Sep. 12, '21, m. Richard p P Harrin.t'on • 

245. in. Alanson P., 8 Aug. 2, '23, m! Betsey M. Fisk ; had at U g ' 
„ _ r ' teg*™ M.? Sep. 3, '44 ; n. Lelia A.? Nov. 25 '40 • 

246. iv. Pardius N., 8 Aug. 26, '25, m. Susan Ann Taylor, r. U • ' 
v. Betsey, 8 m. Geo. A. Corbin, (d.,) r. Milfd. ; vi. Melissa, 8 d.'y*. • 
vn. Sehna A., 8 m. Lyman Gleason ; vm. Phylira A., 8 r. unm. U • 
ix. Winslow, 8 d. yg. ' 

79 ' 2 B^eS^r BCar Hm **™^ and U P ton ' and h ? »■ Ttankfal 
250. 248. 1. Lewis/ m. Julia Haggles, 2d, Sarah Monro ; n. Emily/- 

;4J. in. Josiah Adams/ m. Esther Fisk, inherits the homestead at Bear Hill 
resides Upton. ' 

248. 250. Lewis Rockwood/ of Upton, m. Julia Ruggles, d. June 18, 1823, and 
-d, barah Monro, and had, 1. Lewis Lcander, 8 Apl. 17, 1810 m Marv 
A. Morse, r. U. and Hoi., bad, [ ' ary 

X ;H el ™^nn <7./Jly. 13, '34; it. Oscar Leandcr M* Feb 21 
61, r. Holl. ; in. Mary Ann? r. U. ; iv. Edwin? d. yg. • 



230 ROCK WOOD. 

ii. Charles R., Apl. 22, 1812, d. yg. 
252. in. Tho. McD., 8 Jan. 13/15, m. Sarah Lackey, r. U. ; iv. Levi R., Jly. 
30, '17, m. Maria Slocum, r. U. ; v. Calvin R., 8 Mar. 15, '20, m. Ann 
Maria Aldrich, r. Worcester; vi. Julia Ann, 8 June 18, '23, m. Lewis 
Woodward, r. U. ; vn. Francis A., 8 June 14, '24, m. Julia Lackey, r. TJ. ; 
vin. Sarah C, 8 Apl. 17, '26, m. Tho. Aldrieh, r. Worcester; 
ix Jame3 A., 8 Aug. 13, '28, m. Jane M. Walker, r. U. ; had, 

I. Clara E.? Jan. 19, '49 ; 
x. Clarissa, 8 m. Albert Pierce, r. U. ; xi. Esther, 8 m, Willard Comce. 

82 256. John Rockwood, 6 m. Lydia Whitney, b. Dec. 10, 1783, m. Mar. 19, 
1804, r. Hopk., had, i. Emily, 7 May 27, 1805, d. Nov. 3, '40, m. Elijah 
Forbush, r. U. ; had, Melissa E., s Oct. 17, '27, d. May 18, '42; 

ii. Deb. #, 8 June 7, '32, d. Apl. 12, '42; 
ii Deborah 7 Au". 3, 1807, d. Jly. 12, '32, m. Joshua Picket, r. H., had, 

John i?., 8 Fib. 9, '33 ; 
in. Betsey, 7 Jly. 13, 1809, d. Aug. 13,1813; iv. Gregory S.,' Jly. 28, 
1811 m. Silence Brown, Apl. 11, 33, r. Natick., has, 

i. Jane Maria? Feb. 14, '34 ; n. Geo. £., s Oct. 3, '35 ; 

in. Ann E., s Sept. 16, '37 ; iv. Harriet C., 8 Sep. 25, '40. 

2 9 257, Joseph Rocket, 5 m. Alice , settled in Bellingham and had, 

261 °5S' i Levi e Dec. 10, 1751, d. June 15, 1806, m. Deborah Lazell ; 

XI.' Deborah, June 17, '54, d. Oct. 3 9, '79, m. Robt. Batty; in. John, 6 

March 19, '56, d. Dec. 9, '86, drowned at sea ; iv. Alice, 6 Mar. 2, 58, d. 

1842, m. John Cook of B., had no issue; v. Joseph, 6 Apl. 14, '60, d. Oct. 

6 '78, on returning from the army ; vi. Melatiah, 6 Apl. 14, 'G2, m. Asa 

Holbrook, 2d, Caleb Adams, rs. Bell. ; vn. Cephas, 6 May 25, '66, d. Dec. 

10, '86, drowned at sea ; vra. Daniel, 6 Feb. 24, '68, m. Lovice Pond, Feb. 

1$, '93, had Alice, d. at Chicago, 111. 

258 261 Levi Rockwood, 6 w. Deborah Lazell, b. 1750, d. 1807, r. Bell, had, 

i. Rachel, 7 Jly. 31, '74, d. Apr. 6, 1852, m. Levi Thompson, r. near Lock- 
nort N Y.; ii. Susanna, 7 May 21, '76, d. 1840, m. Nahum Holbrook, r. 
Adamsville, N. Y. ; in. Hannah, 7 May 2, '78, d Nov. 18, '78 ; 
272. 262. iv. Joseph, 7 March 18, '80, d. Apl. 29, 1854 m. Anne Chilson,r. Bell.; 
263. v. Levi, 7 May 24, '82, d. 1839, m. Tryphena Holbrook, r. Boston, N. ¥.; 
264 vi Nathan, 7 Nov. 4, '84, r. Boston, near Buffalo, N. Y.; 
267 265. vn. Martin, 7 March 29, '87, m. Abigail Bates, 2d, Lois Hitchcock ; 
* 266. vin. Reuben, 7 . Dec. 26, '90, r. Eden, N. Y., near Buffalo. 

265. 2G7. Martin, 7 Dea., w. Abigail Bates, m. March 29, 1810, r. Bell; 

2G8. i. Horace, 8 Aug. 29, 1811, m.ElizaSmith r. Bel; ii. Caroline B., 8 Apr. 
25, '13, m. Pelatiab S. Bates, r. B. ; in. Martin, 8 Sept. 12, 14 m Julia 
Cook, 2d, Lydia Phelps, r. B. ; it. Abigail Legg, 8 Sep. 2o 10 (d)m. 
George Darling; v. Sena E., 8 Dec. 2, '19, d yg. ; vi. E hzabeth 8 Feb 27, 
'22 m. Silas F. Thayer, r. Ashland; vn. Varnum B., 8 Oct. 10, 24, m. 
Julia Burr, r. B. ; Tni. Calvi n N., 8 Aug. 12, '30, m. Jane Fornstall, r. B. 

262. 272. Joseph, 7 w. Ann Chilson, Oct. 28, 1783, r. Bell bad, i Lucena, 8 Oct. 
18, 1800, r. Bell; n. Preston, 8 Aug. 2, '08, r. Bell ; in. Artemon , 8 Dec. 
23 '10, r. Bell. ; iv. Susan, 8 May 15, '13, d. Aug. 22, '43, m. E. N. .Paine, 
E«q. of Blackstone; v. Maria, 8 Oct, 13, '15, ni. do. ; vi. Joseph Monro, 
Jly. 1, 18, m. Elizabeth II. Bixby, of Newton ; and had, 



ROCRWOOD. 2$0\ 

92,28.?. Nathan Rock wood/ d. nt Hopk. Aug. 7. 1841, m. Joanna Day, who d. 
Oct. 26, 1804 ; aud lid, Olive McFarland. Nov. 10. 1805; had i Deborah,' 
Sep. 20, 17! »5. n. Dexter/ Dae. .">. '97. nx. Bttoej,' Jane 18, 1800. 
iv. Erekiel Day," Feb. 23, 1802. re. S.boro', m. Ann S. Williams-.' | 

p. 264), had 1, Charles Henry,* Apl 13, 1820. 2, Alfred Elliot, 1 
Apl 28, 'S3. 3, Edward Payson/ Aug. 7, '35. 4, Justin Ed- 
wards.-' Oct. 5, '39. 
v. Joanna,' July 23, 1804. vi. Nathan." Sept. 11, 1S0G, d. 1851 vn. 
Emily A., 8 Mar. 30, '08. vm. Sophia," Mar. 21, '1(1. IX. Charlotte.' 
May 12, '12. x. Fanny W / July 9, '14, d. '52. XL Olive, May 23, 
'10. xii. Lucrotia, Juno 17, '19. 



19- .2,7. James Frost Rockwood/ dropped his first name, served as a soldier in 
the Revolution, and d. at Worcester, Mar. 0. 1842, a. 87 yre., 7 mo. In 
1800 ho abandoned the use of spirituous liquors, and for 12 yrs.' was a consis- 
tent temperance man. In 1833 he became a devoted member of the Old 
South Chh. in W., and d. longing to depart and be with his Redeemer. He 
m. May IT,. 1776, Sarah Pratt, b. at Hopk., Jan. 18, 1758, d. Nov. 1845, had 
i. Ejus ' Jan. 1, 1778, d. Feb. 24, 1S34, at Augusta, N. Y., m. Polly 

Rlenden, and had Samuel; and 4 das. H 
ii. Sally/ Oct. 11, 1779, m. Jes. Smith, of W., and had 1 son" and 5 das' 
in. barren.' July 22, 1781, d. Oct. 28, 1851. 

iv. Rel>ecca/ June 15, 178-i. m. Jona. Morrison, of Peterboro', N. H., and 
2d, All.ina Fairbanks, of Smithfield, N. Y., and had by the former, 3 
son,: and by the latter 2 sons" and 1 da,» and rs. a wid. with her s. Ira 
Fairbanks, at Wooster, O. 
v. Geo. W./ July 12, 1785, a twin, and d. July 14, '85. 
vi. Fanny P., 7 July 12, J 85, rs. unm. at W. 

tii. Samuel/ Aug. 24, 1787, m. Hanh Rasset, fr. New Salem ; rs. Sheri- 
dan, N. V., had 1, Samuel,* Warren; and 2 more sons* and 3 dqs* 
viii. Rufus,' June 27. 1780, m. Clarissa Glover, and 2d, Sally (Wilson) 
Adams ; re. Leicester; had by the former 1, Iienr V ; 2, Sarah? 3, Wil- 
ham, 4, Charles: 5, Francis; 0, Eliza; 7, Geo. IK/ b. Jan. 18, 1828; 
re. .Newton Falls, m. Mary A. Martin, had Ada," (d.) Clarissa,' (d.) 
ix. John ' July 5, 1791, d. July 24, 1841, m. Abigail Witt, fr. Dana; rs. 

Petersham, had 1, John; and 3 das. 1 
x. Frost/ June 10, 1703, m. at Elkland, Pa. Junia Osterbout ; rs. Nel- 
son. Tioga Co., Pa. ; had 1, Sarah F., s Oct. 1825; m. Mar. 12, 
49 >( Clius. Hoyt, of Elkland, and has two did./ 2, Mahala; Feb. 
28, '27, m. Apl., '4»;, ( )rrin Crandall, and d. Apl. 22, '51, leaving 
larker/ William, 1 * and Emogine," 3, Emily; May 15, '29, d. Mar. 
,J\ 7; 4 ' rAwrr «. s Nov. 14, '31 ; 5, Gervsha; Aug. 15, '34 : 6, 
Phebe Ann; oct. 24, '37. * 

xi. Mary Eddy/ Sept. 17, 1795, re. unm. at Worcester. 



!83 Satnuel/ Dea. d. May 29, 1804, w. Lucy Hubbard, dg. of Nathan fc 
i>7 a , Q ,0fl * r °! 0n ' andb - An *29. 1757; m. Jan. 19, '80, 



40,283. 

ft"? 

it, 1048, r. (f. bad 

i. Samuel/ Nov. 19, 1781, d. May 9, 1851, m. No. 19, 1818, Anna 
Houghton, b. Apl. 4, 1781, at Winchester, N. H. d. May 3, 1834, and 



230J ROCKWOOD. 

2d, Lucy Weston, Mar. 12, 1840, who was b. Mar. 11, 1789, and d. Apl. 
15, 1843, and had 

1. Samuel Curtis, 7 Jan. 4, 1820, rs. unm. at Springfield, an armorer, 
and machinist, and efficient member of the Cong'l Chb., has taken 
much interest in his genealogy, restored and published that of his 
brothers and cousins, as here introduced, but has been betrayed by 
another into statements relative to his Puritan sire, unauthorized by 
records or reliable traditions. 

2. Albert Smith, 7 Mar. 10, '23; m. at Palmer, Nov. 27, '51, Har- 
riet Josephine Clark, b. at Dedh. Mar. 15, '32, rs. at Beaver 

Dam, Wis. and had Albert E., 8 July 16, '53, d. Jan. 12, '55, and 
Carlos Smith, 8 Oct 23, '54. 

3. James Sidney, 7 Aug. 21, '24 ; rs. Beaver Dam. 

ii. Sewell, 6 June 22, 1783, m. Jan. 11, 1814, Lucy Moors, dg. of Jo- 
seph M., Esq., of Groton, and b. Dec. 26, 1700, d. Feb. 5, 1855 ; re. G., 
had 1, Caroline 7 June 9, 1816, and 2, Charles, 7 Sept. 30, '22. 

in. Elisha, 6 Dec. 11, 1784, d. Dec. 13, '86. iv. Lucinda, 6 Nov. 8,' 86. 

v. Curtis, 6 Aug. 22, '88, d. Sept. 7, 1843. vi. James, Sept. 9, '90, d. 
July 28, '95. 

vii. John 6 , June 29, '92, m. Jan. 23, 1823, Christiana Patterson, at Lu- 
nenburg, b. Apl 29, 1800 ; had 1, Walter P., 7 Jan. 4, '24, d. Apl 9, 
'55, m. Aug. 18, '50, Nancy, Shumway, fr. Townsend, Vt., b. Mar. 
31, 1814 ; had Agnes Sophia, 8 Mar. 2, '52, d. Feb. 18, '53, and Ann 
Walter, 8 Apl 11, '55. 

Till. Thomas, 6 Apl 7, 1794, d. Aug. 17, '95. ix. James, 8 Feb. 4, 1797. 

x. Abel, 6 Jan. 27, 1799, d. Nov. 21, 1828. 



No. 249. 294. Josiah Adams Rockwood, 7 Esq., a gent, of standing and respec- 
tability, inherits the enviable place of his ancestors at Bare Hill,* which about 
1779 was detached fr. Hopk. and annexed to Upton. 
May 26, 1714, the G. C. confirmed to Wm. Torry a grant of 515 acres near Mendon, 
on the road fr. M. to Marlboro'. In 1718-19 Eben'r Cook and Benj. Thayer gave a 
quit claim of their interest in this tract to Oliver Hayward, of Bell, who in 1716 
had rec'd fr. his father, Wm. H., another quitclaim to the same. Mar. 17, 1720-21, 
Oliver H. for £143 sold 533J acres of this land to Lt. (Rev.) John Rockwood, 3 and Jasper 
Adams, then " both of Medway." Apl 15, 1729, Jasper A., reserving 142 acres of the 
E. part, gave Lt. R. a quit claim to the remainder, who Dec. 4, 1729, deeded to his s. 
John* 291 acres of the original grant, who ab. this time took possession and began im- 
provements. Jan. 10, 1759, John R.' gave his s. John 5 a deed of half his real estate of 
244 acres in Hopk. and elsewhere," who by his will in 1 78G left it to Josiah and his oth- 
er sons, through whom most of it has passed into the hands of the present occupant, who 
has only adopted children to possess it. 
No. 275. 295. Joseph Monro, by w. Elizabeth II. Bixby, had (see page 231.) 

ERRATA. 

No. 146. EbenezerRockwood, 6 Esq. m. Sept. 9, 1S07 , Elizabeth Breese Hazard, 
(not Abigail) b. at New York, and had 1, Abigail Arthur/ Sept. 22, 1808 ; 
2, Ebenezer Hazard, 7 Aug. 1, 1810; 4, Charles Greene. 
No. 75. 2d line, for Mendon read Hopk. 

No. 83. " Benj. 3 ?" was not the s. of John, 4 but pr. of Benj. No. 72. 
No. 89 before which for 259 read 113. 

* There was another Bare Hill in Mendon, now Milford. 



RUSSELL. • 231 

i. Ann Elizabeth, 9 May 10, '43; n. John, Feb. 10, '46 ; 

lit. Lydia Maria, May 31, '48; iv. Susan Alice, Apl. 5, '51 ; 

v. Mary Agnes, Dec. 10, '53 ; 
vn. John, 8 Jan. 25, '21, m. Mary Eay, rs. Milford ; vin. Emily, 8 June 2, 
'23, m. Joseph Hay, of Blackstone ; ix. Abby A., 8 May 30, '26, m. L. 
Halsey Cook, of Milford. 

GRADUATES. 

No. 140. Ebenezcr Rockwood, A. B., Harvard University, 1773. 
142. Ebenezcr Hockwood, A. B., Harvard University, 1802. 
151. Elisha Hockwood, A. B., Dartmouth College, 1802. 
144. Daniel Hockwood, A. B., Dartmouth College, 1811. 

Joseph Rockwood, A. B., Dartmouth College, 1837. 
145|. Lubin Burton Rockwood, A. B., Dartmouth College, 1839. 
139. Samuel L. Rockwood, A. B., Amherst College, 1836. 
154. Otis Rockwood, A. B., Middlebury College, 1813. 
146|. Ebenezer Hazard Rockwood, M. D., Yale College, 1832. 

Cephas L. Rockwood, A. B., Middlebury College, 1808. 



James Russell, Esq. and Dea. ; pr. of the distinguished family of this name, early 
in Charlestown, and perhaps s. or neph. of " Mr." James Russell, of Medford, 
1690, came fr. Marblehead to H., s. as a blacksmith where Col. Whiting rs., 
opened the first house of entertainment in II., was chosen Dea., June, 1748, 
and was the first magistrate appointed in H. He was of a generous and 
hospitable disposition, and seems to have been a man of refinement. He d. 
Sept. 16, 1777, a. 62. He m. Nov. 24, 1737, Abigail Lovet, whose 
family are reported to have been from Salem, but quite as probably from 
Braintree, and of the same stock as the Lovets of Mend. She had many 
sisters, and if H. and S. then had an aristocracy, they belonged to it. Dea. R. 
had i. Mary, Aug. 18, 1738, m. Samuel Park, Esq., of H; n. Elizabeth, 
Mar. 11, 1739, m. James Mellen, of Hopk., had i. David, M. D., who d. 
at Hudson, N. Y., a. 83 ; n. Win., who d. at do., a. 60; in. James, 
whos. at Spafford, N. Y. ; iv. A dg., who m. Rev. Dr. Fisk, of New 
Braintree, and now living, 
in. Lovet, Mar. 4, 1741-2, d. Apl. 5, '45 ; iv. John, June 24, '44, d. 
Sept. 21, '45 ; v. Abigail, Apl. 13, '46, m. " Mr." Jona. Russell, of Provi- 
dence, 1768, and was the mother of Hon. Jona. Russell, LL. D , who as 
U. S. Legatus Pacificus, signed the Treaty of Ghent, 1814. 

1. Tho. Russell, from Woburn, s. on the S. E. side of Coarse Brook, where 
Capt. Amos Hill rs. His w., Hannah Cooledge, d. Dec. 21, 1800, a. 90. 
He d. prior to 1790; had i. Joel, Mar. 7, 1733--4, d. a. 115 ys., m. 

Rebecca , and had Edward, 1770, and removed ; n. Rebecca, Apl. 20, 

'35 ; in. Isaac, Sept. 27, '36 ; iv. Hannah, Jan. 27, '38-9 : v. Hannah' 
Feb. 21, '40-1 ; vi. Isaac, Nov. 21, '42, d. yg. 
13. 4. vn. Tho., Dec. 13, '44 ; vin. Hanh., May 11, '46 ; ix. Sarah, Sept. 28, '48. 
7. 5. x. Isaac, Lt., Mar. 8, '50 ; xi. Hanh., Apl. 2, '52, m. Sam'l Cooledge, '79 ; 
6. xii. Samuel, Nov. 18, '54. 

5. 7. Isaac, inherited and sold the homestead to John Hill, m. Hanh. Fairbanks, 
and had i. Isaac, 1778 ; n. James, Sept. 24, 1779 ; in. Rhoda, Apl. 28,' 



232 SANGER. 

'81 ; iv. Polly, Apl. 15, '83; v. Persis, Mar. 15, '85; vi. Hanb., May 1, 
1788. 

9. Dea. Jona. Russell, (br. of Tbo. 1st,) s. N. E. of Farm Lake, and d. Aug. 21, 
1775. His w. Mary Cooledge, m. Jly. 13, 1727, d. Jly. 18, 1771, a. 70. 
He was selectmau 10 ys., and 17 vs. Pea. in tbe ebb. He bad i. Mary, 
Dec. 11, 1728; ii. Elizabeth, Oct. 7, '30, m. Silas Stone, of Natick ; 
19. 10. in. Jona. Apl. 5, '32 ; iv. Mary, Mar. 7, '33-4, d. 1826, a. 92, m. 
Hopestill Leland ; v. Sarab, Aug. 4, '36 ; VI. Judith, Oct. 30, '38; 
vir. John, Mar. 1G, '40--1, d. 1760, on his return fr. the army at Crown- 
point ; vin. Amos, Mar. 29, '45. 

4. 13. Tho., w. Abigail; I. Daniel, Apl. 7, 1775; n. Joseph, Nov. 1, '76 ; 

in. Arnold, bp. Aug. 23, '78 ; iv. Tho., bap. Mar. 4, '81 ; v. Nabby, May 
30, '83 ; vi. Shubael, bp. Nov. 20, '85. 

10 19. Jona., w. Elizabeth Daniels, who d. May 13, 1793. Tbey had in S., 

I. John, Dec. 1, 1769, d. yg. ; II. Jona., Apl. 3, '72, inherits the home- 
stead at the farm ; in. Anna, June 5, '74, m. Dea. Jeremiah Smith, Sept. 
19, 1799, of Medfd. ; iv. Mary, Apl. 13, ; 76, m. Oliver Wight, Oct. 14, 
1800 ; v. Joseph, Apl. 13, '76, d. yg. ; vi. Betty, June 15, '79, m. Oliver 
Wight, (not the above) ; vn. Julia, Feb. 3, '86, m. Solomon Bigelow, of Sh. 

tmtmt 

4 1. Richard Sanger, if not a German by birth, had a German name, 
denoting minstrel, wbich did not occur in England much earlier than bis day, 
and wbich has not in the English world yet become common. In Germany 
it may be more ancient than Sangerhausen. Ricbard Sanger, tbe progenitor 
of the New England Sangers, embarked Apl., 1638, at South Hampton, 
settled as a blacksmith at Sudbury, 1646, took the oath of fidelity 1647, 
[Barry's His. of Fram.] removed 8, (9mo.) 1649, to Watertown, where he 
died, Aug. 20, 1690, leaving an estate, the inventory of which, though 
humble in°amount, shows tbat he bad, for bis day, tbe ordinary comforts and 
conveniences of life. To him and his two adult sons, with three others, was 
intrusted, during Philip's war, the charge of guarding the mill at Watertown. 

Richard, 1 w. Mary Rannals, 2d w., Sarah , r. Watertown, had, 

i. Mary, 2 Sep. 26, 1650, at Watertown, m. John Harris at W., 1670 ; 
5. 2. ii. Nath'l, 2 Feb. 14, '51--2, d. ab. 1735, m. 1st, Mary, 2d, Ruth; 
10. 3. in. John, 2 Sep. 6, '57, m. Rebecca Park, r. a blacksmith in W. ; 
iv. Sary, by 2d w., b. and d. '61 ; 
v. Sary, Mar. 31, '63, no further reported ; 
- 19. 4. vi. Richard, 2 Feb. 22, '66-7, d. Apl. 1, 1731, m. Elizabeth Morse, of Sh. 
vn. Elizabeth, 2 July 23, '68 ; vm. David, 2 Pec. 21, '70, d. 1695. pr. urn. 

2. 5. Nath'l, 2 1st w. Mary , 2d w., Ruth , r. Sh., Roxb., Ms., Wood- 

stock, Ct. ; i. >Mehetabel, 1680, at Sberborn, and baptized atRoxbury, 1684; 
ii. Mary, 3 1681, at Roxb., and bap. 1684 ; in. Jane, 1683, bap. '84; 
iv. a son, bap. 1684, at Roxbury ; v. Nath'l, 3 1685 ; vi. Benj., 1688, bp. 
1688, at R. ; vn. David 3 ; vm. Elizabeth 3 ; ix. Jona. 3 ; x. Eliazar, 3 who 
r. Hardwick, Petersham, and d. at Keene, N. H., Mar., 1765, a. 66, leaving 
a wid. Mary, who d. 1783, a. 80. [Barry's His. of Fram.] 

3. 10. John, 2 w. Rebecca Park, r. a blacksmith at Watertown ; I. John, 3 Dec. 

19, 1685 ; ii. Rebecca, Mar. 7, '88-9, m. Tbo. Flagg ; in. David, 3 Mar. 
21, '97, m. Patience Benjamin, 1720, and had, i. John'; n. David 4 ; 



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in. Win.* ; iv. Nath'l* ; v. Solomon*; vi. Sam*l* who m. Mary 

Fairbanks, 1757, 2d, Grace ; 

iv. Elizabeth, 3 born June 2, 1703, at Watertown, and no further reported. 

' 4. 19. Richard,- came to Sherborn at the age of 21, with his brother N'athl, to 
establish the business of blacksmithing. He probably built his house on the 
North side of the common. A few rods further north, cinders reveal the 
site of his shop. After passing the customary year of probation, he was 
approved as a good and wholesome inhabitant, and presented, by a vote of 
the proprietors, July 1, 1689, with "20 acres of land and town rights in 
future with themselves ; he to bear proportionable charges with them in the 
town, having no power to sell, let, or give said land for the space of 7 years." 
He subsequently, and at different times, drew other lots. July 5, 1690, 
Edward West gave him a deed of 31 acres, i. e. 12 of meadow received 
by his wife from her father, Daniel Morse, (jun.,) and 19 of upland received 
from the town. This tract was bounded N. by West's land, which separated 
it from Rev. D. Grookin's ; " W. by the road (from the plain), to the Meeting 
house in part: S. by Jona. and Nath'l Morse's, and by common lands on 
all other parts." This includes the sight of Elbridge Sanger's buildings. — 
By common lands must be included the burying-ground which formed a part 
of the West boundary ; for Eleazar Morse in 1722, deeded to " Richard 
Sanger, 2 3^ acres, bounded E. by Richard's own land," and " N. with the 
common land reserved or set apart for the burying place,"* (see Mid. Re°\ 
of Deeds, Lib. 32), " W. by the highway leading from the Plain to the S. 
part of Slier., andS. by Wm. Barron's, the said land beingnear the Meeting 
house." Richard's 2 estate at his death was inventoried at £706, not including 
town rights and allotments at Douglas. He seems to have been a useful 
and respected citizen, and an exemplary member of society. To him was 
committed the sacred charge of taking care of the Meeting house, to which 
his was much the nearest dwelling. His children were, I. Elizabeth, 3 Ap. 2 or 
16, 1693, d. 1775, unm. at Sherborn; n. Mary, Apt. 11, '95, m. Andrew 
Morse, 1745, d. without issue ; in. Hannah, Feb. 7, '97, m. Ephm. Twitch- 
ell, of Sherborn, Feb. 9, 1726--7 j iv. Esther, Oct. 20, '98, d. 1732, m. 
John Twitchell, of S., Feb. 2, '20-21, had David and Moses; 
v. Deborah, Aug. 5, 1701, d. Jan. 10, '27-8; 
. vi. Sarah, Feb. 10, '05, m. Nath'l Hollrook, Aug. 20, '28, r. Sherborn; 
22. 20. vii. Richard, 3 Nov. 4, 1706, d. May 14, '86, reed, to chh. Jan. 23, '85 ; 
vin. Abigail, July 3, 1709, reed, to full communion in chh. Aug. 8, '36, 
pr. d. unm. 
ix. David, 3 Feb. 22, 1715, (yeoman) m. Bathsheba Pratt, r. Framingham. 

* Richard Sanger 2 having: become the proprietor on three sides of this Reservation, probably 
inclosed it with his own land, as in it few interments had yet been made. The town bein<* inter- 
ested in two older graveyards, and having no record of the reservation, neglected to fence it 
until it came to be regarded as private property. Capt. Samuel Sanger the 1st so regarded it' 
and repeatedly offered to give the land, if the town would inclose it. But they disregarded the 
offer, ;. nd he, for the sake of decency, inclosed the portion containing monuments, and used it 
as a private burying place ; and it has since, in opposition to the wishes and effoits of his heirs, 
been sold and subjected to profane trespass. But the sale, though ordered by a Jud<*e of Prob., 
will be set aside whenever the land is reclaimed, as it can be at any future time. Possession 
" for no period whatever " can give title to land set apart like this, whose bounds are ascer- 
tainable : and if the town has forfeited all moral right, then let them procure an act of the Le°\ 
vacating the land as a cemetery, and give a quit claim to the present occupants. Regard for 
justice and the peace of posterity may require it. 

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20. 22. Richard, 8 was a remarkable num. He inherited the combative, mirthful 
acquisitive, and persevering characteristics of his mother's race, and excelled 
them in enterprise. He was brought up to the business of his father, and 
continued to be styled blacksmith until thirty years of age. Soon after 
attaining his majority, he purchased of Rev. Daniel Baker, two acres on the 
west side of the road, opposite his father's land, bounded south and west by 
Baker, and north by James Coolidge ; and the next year commenced build- 
ing the north half of the Old Sanger House, now occupied by Mr. 
Joseph Sanger. At the age of 23 he m. Deborah, dg. of Hn. Wm. Rider, 
by w. Deborah Morse, (see " Mem. of Morses," p. 3,) and at the next 
town meeting received a certificate of his marriage in the customary form of 
an election to the office of hogreeve. About this time he seems to have 
come into possession of the five acre building lot of Rev. Daniel Gookin, 
now in the first lot on the east side of the way upon the plain north of the 
meeting bouse, and for some time to have lived in the Gookin house. This 
house stood upon an eminence near the north side of the lot, and about twenty 
rods east of the road. His shop stood between the house and highway. On 
the death of his father, two thirds of his real estate was assigned to him and 
his brother David, whom he, in 1735, bought out. He soon after took down 
the Gookin house, and erected and adjoined it to the south end of the tene- 
ment he commenced in 1729. This part of the house was built in 1679, and 
is 176 years old. Near it may still be seen, in the rear of Eldridge Sanger's 
house, the Old Gookin Barn, having by repeated demands for sound tenants 
to new sills, lost half of its lower story. 

In 1733, he purchased, for £63, of Edmond Quincy and William Brattell, 
commissioners for the sale of lands formerly given by the town to Rev. D. 
Baker, seven acres south of his own land, east of the road from the meeting 
house to the south end, north of the farm road, and Nathaniel Holbrook's 
land, and west of N. Holbrook's. 

In 1734-5, he bought of Rev. Wm. Cooper and Judith his wife, (the 
dg. of Chief Justice Sewall), 200 acres, or one half of the Hull Farm; 
Capt. Joseph Ware purchasing at the same time the other half. 
In 1737, he opened a store, which he seems to have left in the hands of 
another in 1747, when he removed to Boston, and for a short time did a 
large and lucrative business. The climate disagreeing with the health of his 
lady, he returned the next year to S., and here traded extensively in mer- 
chandise and real estate. He was at that day concerned in land speculations 
in Maine. He accumulated a lar^e fortune, which he divided among seven 
children, without reserving enomrh for protracted old age. 
Between 1740 and '67, he served the town ten years as selectman, and often 
acted as moderator at town meetings. He was a good whig, served on com- 
mittees to provide for the poor of Boston, in the time of the war, and to 
report on the services of soldiers employed by S. In 1776, he was the first 
man placed on the committee of safety with President Locke. 
His wife, the daughter of the accomplished surveyor and clerk, Wm. Rider, 
and the niece of Rev. Joseph Morse, of Stoughton, was a lady of uncommon 
dignity and excellence. Her library consisted of such works as Willard's 
Divinity, Flavel's and Tillotson's works, &c. 

From the markings in these volumes, I infer that she kept a theological 
school in the nursery, doubtless from the conviction that doctrine is the only 
foundation of correct practice. She d. Aug. 15, 1789, aged 79, but her 
influence survives to this day. Their children were, i. Zcdekiah, Nov. 27, 
1730, d. Jan. 23, '35-5 ; II. Deborah, Mar. 4, '32-3, d. Feb. 2, '35-G ; 



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_3p. _ 
issue; v. Daniel, 4 Feb. 13, '39-40, d. Sep. 27, 1807, m. 0. Hooker, r. 
Fram.; vr. Mary, Sep. 30, 1742, dan. Oct, 10, '42, 
33. 25 




Sarah Eames, r. Sherborn, New Hartford, N. Y. ; 
40. 28. x. Asa, 4 May 19, '53, bap. May 27, '53, d. Feb. 14, 1839, m. Joanna 
Dana, of Natiek, r. Sh. 



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Capt. Samuel Sanger, 4 senr., was distinguished for his athletic frame, per- 
nal dignity, moral integrity, courage, independence, and energy. During 
a long period of active life, he bore a conspicuous part in the civil transactions 
of Sherborn, and was eminently serviceable during the great conflicts for our liberties 
and the maintenance of the constitution against the rebellion of '87. Then it was, 
that his appeals, from the moderator's chair, were wont to rouse his townsmen to en- 
thusiasm in their country's cause ; so that no town of its size in this patriotic com- 
monwealth, went before S. in the number of volunteers for the public service, or in 
promptness in furnishing supplies. To him Pomologists owe the discoverv and first 
cultivation of the incomparable Porter apple. He inherited the ancient Sanger 
house, kept a small store and tavern, and once entertained Gen. Washington. As a 
landlord he did much to discourage idleness and excess. No man dared roll at his 
ninepins between one holiday and another. Gross offenders against decency and 
good order would hide from his presence, and feel more terror at his rebuke, than at any 
fulminations from S. pulpit. On the sabbath his bar was locked, and a key of gold 
could not open it ; yet his rooms were open and fires free during the interim of divine 
service, while a solemnity befitting the day, reigned throughout the house, and no 
discourse was entered upon which could interrupt him in hi> uniform practice of read- 
ing the Bible. His children, all by bis 2d wife, Abigail Whiting, a lady of eminent 
piety, were : 

i. Mary, 5 Nov. 6, 1757, bap. June 11, '58, d. Dec. 17, 1819, m. Moses 
Perry, 3:1, of S., and had Nathaniel, of Boston ; 
43. 30. n. Samuel, 5 Capt., Oct. 23, '64, m. 1st, Mary Hart ; 2d, Margaret 

(Smith) Wyer ; and 3d, Elizabeth (Richardson) Coolidge, from Medway, 

and for 20 years a merchant in Boston ; 
46. 31. nr. Calvin, 5 Esq., Oct. 10, '68, d. Nov. 5, 1835, m. Anna Phipps, dg. 

of Jed. P., (gn grd. nephew of Sir Wm. P.) by w. Sarah Learned, dg. of 

Capt. Edward L., by w. Sarah Leland, dg. of Ens. Henry L. by w. Mary 

Morse ; 
50. 32 -_ n ;- Joseph, 5 June 24, '81, bap. July 1, '81, m. Sally Phipps, b. Jul. 7, 

1783, grd. dg. of Jed. Phipps and Sarah Learned, and dg. of John P., by 

w. Hanh. Coolidge, dg. of Jo. C, by Elizth. Frost; and grd. dg. of Isaac 

C, Esq., and Hannah Morse. 

25. 3;!. John, 4 Lt., s. with his father n. the ancient Phipps House, kept a store 
and tavern ; sold that place to Samuel Sanger, the late occupant, rm. to 
N. part of S., where he d. He was a man of integrity, a member of the 
chh.. and often one of the selectmen of Sh. He had by 1st w., 



236 SANGER. 

i. Anne, 5 Dec. 17, 1769, bap. Dec. 25, '74, m. Josiah Perry; II. Abigail, 4 
Aug. G, '72, bap. Dee. 25, '74 ; in. John, 5 Ap. 5, '77, d. '89 ; iv. Bonj., 5 Dec. 

G, '81, m. , had Thankful, w. of Lowell Bahcock ; v. Louisa, 5 Mar. 24, 

1800, (by his 2d wife) ; vi. Evalina, 5 Feb. 20, '02, m. Joseph Sanger, of 
Sherborn ; vir. Jedediah, June 27, '05, d. Oct. 13, '25, um., at Sherborn. 

2G. 34. Zedekiah, 4 Rev. D. D., grad. H. U., 1771, settled in the ministry at Dux- 
bury. From D. he rm. 1788 to S. Bridgewater, where he performed the la- 
borious duties of pastor until about 1820 ; and instructed a private classical 
school. He was highly esteemed for genius and learning, reverenced as a 
minister, and sought for as a counsellor. He had, i. Richard, Mar. 25, 
1778, d. Jan. 1st, 1831. He grad. atH.U. 1800, where he became tutor ; 
m. Sally Tisdale, 1807 ; n. Deborah, Sep. 26, 1779, m. John Ames, jun., 
of Easton, 1799; in. Jos., Mar. 17, 1781, m. Hannah Marcy, of Plymo., 
r. Sullivan, N. Y. ; iv. Caroline, Sep. 5, 1782, in. Rev. Samuel Clark; 
2d, Hon. Alvah Foot, of Burlington, Vt. ; v. Zedekiah, June 5, 1784; 
grad. at B. U., m. Sarah Kissam, r. merchant, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; 

55. 38. vi. Ralph, Rev A. M., June 22, 1786, m. Charlotte Kingman, of East 
Bridgewater; vn. Samuel F., Feb. 3, 1788, m. Susan Alden, r. S. 
Bridgewater; vni. Irene, Oct. 19, 1789, died Oct. 2, 1789, at South 
Bridgewater; ix. Olivia, Oct. 8, 1790, m. George Moore, of Burlington, 
Vt., 1815; x. George P., Sep. 30, 1792, d. Aug. 24, 1818; xi. Sarah, 
Nov. 22, 1795, m. Wm. Henry Allen, of Providence, R. I., Nov. 3, 1833, 
and had Franklin Sterling, Apl. 4, '36; xn. Eliza, Mar. 16, 1797, d. um. 
Jan. 28, 1847 ; xin. John, andxiv. Martin, (twins) Nov. 22, 1798, d. Apl. 
25, 1799 ; xv. John M., June 3, 1800, m. Mary Fuller, who d. Oct. '48, 
r. Sharon. 



28. 40. Asa, 4 received a deed of half his father's home farm, and in 1775, com- 
menced the house in which his s. David resides, and had, i. Deborah, 5 
Oct. 16, '73, m. Willard Hart, of Sherborn; n. Rebecca, 5 Feb. 18, '76, m. 
Eli Leland, of S. ; 

60. 41. i;i. David, 5 Feb. 19, '78, m. Susannah Johnson of S. ; iv. Polly, 5 May 
26, '80, m. Alpheus Ware of S. ; v. Calvin, 5 Sep. 2, '82, d. Aug. 9, 1831, 
m. Mary Goulding ; vi. Nancy, 5 Apl. 27, '85, m. Col. Alpheus Ware for 
2d wife, r. Sherborn ; vn. Richard, 5 May 23, '90, m. Ruth Wood, had no 
children, r. Sherborn ; vni. Experience, 5 June 20, '92, m. Tho. Brick, of S. ; 
ix. Sally, 5 Feb. 27, '95, m. Lewis Brick, of S. 

30. 43. Samuel, 5 Capt., formerly a merchant in Boston ; r. Sherborn, had 

i. Avery, 6 Jan. 1, 1788, became master of a vessel and d. at sea without 

issue; n. Ambrose, 6 Oct. 31, '89, died at sea, unmarried, aged 26 jears ; 

in. Lucy, 6 May 28, '92, d. June 22, 1843, m. Joshua Crane, r. Boston; 

iv. Abigail, 6 Dec. 17, '94, m. Geo. Howard of S., has only C/ias. Henry 7 ; 

v. Mary, 6 Mar. 23, '97, m. John Park of Boston, had, I. Mary C. 7 d. ; 
n. Abigail S. 7 ; in. John B 7 ; iv. Lydia Ann 7 ; v. Mary C 7 ; 

vi. Samuel Heart, 6 Jan. 16, 1800, m. Eliza Weston, r. Sh., had Samuel A. 7 
Ann M. 7 Ambrose, 7 Abigail, 7 Wm. H. 7 Eliza 7 Mary 1 ; 

vn. Elizabeth, 6 Aug. 19, 1804, m. Joel Powers, r. Lowell, has Ellen M., 7 
Mary A., 7 Wm., 7 Grant 7 ; 

vni. Wm. P. S.,° May 26, 1810, m. Martha Webb., Feb. 20, '34, r. Wash- 
ington city, had, i. Wm. Alex. 7 Nov. 3, '34 ; n. Geo. D. 7 Feb. 9, '37 ; 

ix. Sarah C., fi Oct., 1808, at Boston, and d. Aug., 1848, unm., at Sh. 



SANGER. 237 

31. 46. Hon. Calvin Sanger, 5 of Sherbom, one of the most distinguished citizens 
who ever lived in this ancient town, was not born to an independency, nor 

favored with academical advantages above the youth of his day in the 
country. His constitution was naturally feeble, and his health too precarious to 
justify hopes of success in the toilsome pursuits of agriculture, then the only pursuit 
towards which the emulation of his associates was directed. Under circumstances 
thus adverse, he passed his minority without any regular initiation for cither mechani- 
cal, mercantile, or professional employments. But not more wisely adapted to benefi- 
cent ends, are nature's irregularities in the physical world, than are the dispensa- 
tians of Providence to develop talent when and where it is needed. Sherborn would 
soon want a leader. Her aged counsellor and guide, Daniel Whitney, Esq., was ad- 
vanced in years. Her social and civil order, which had been preserved with scarcely 
a temporary interruption, from the arrival of Nicholas Wood and his colony in 1G52, 
would be in danger. Her inhabitants, being an intelligent, strong-minded, and inde 
pendent yeomanry, would furnish numerous aspirants, with equal claims to office ; 
the political sophistries, and base appeals of Jefferson's pen, to the vilest passions 
and prejudices, were being circulated ; men were taking sides ; the political conflict 
was coming on ; and some man of master spirit would soon be needed for the good 
of all. Such a man could not be expected from abroad. There was nothing to 
allure him. One must be raised up among them, — a man of patriotism, honesty, and 
responsibility, of intelligence, modesty, and good address; and above all, one who 
could give the strongest reasons. 

Young Sanger was endowed with the natural gifts, and, in consequence of feeble 
health, subjected to the right discipline, to fit him for the service which his fellow 
citizens would require. Besides possessing the rare gift of an uncommon share of 
common sense, he had an active and discriminating mind, a tenacious memory, and a 
remarkably sound judgment. He was fond of books. He treasured up facts in 
history and political economy, and investigated the political questions of the day, 
which enabled to form and defend correct opinions. He acquired so much knowledge 
of law, as made him the Lawyer and draftsman of his community : and had he de-" 
voted himself to the legal profession, his judgment was so good, and his memory so 
capacious and ready, he could hardly have failed of eminence. 

As his health was improved by travelling, he was much abroad in distant States, 
and often in cultivated society, to which be owed, among other acquisitions, easy 
and polished manners, and the happy use of language. By intercourse with 
senior and maturer minds, he escaped every symptom of that vanity which is so liable 
to sprout in situations admitting few comparisons. Thus was he formed; and in 
1806, as soon as Sherborn had need, they almost by acclamation placed him at the 
head of her public affairs. 

When a company of cavalry was first raised in S. and vicinity, he was elected Capt., 
and subsequently Col. of cavalry. 

In 1806, he was chosen to represent S. in the General Court, and for 30 years 
after, re-elected almost without opposition, as often as he would consent to be a candi- 
date, until he was advanced to the Senate ; and the records of the Legislature attest 
the high and continued confidence of that body in his wisdom and fidelity. 

He was appointed a magistrate about 1806, and acted in that capacity until his 
death. 

For more than 40 years he served the town in various minor offices, freely devoting 
a large amount of time and labor. He was Town Clerk in 1800, and for 25 years 
be kept her books in a model style. The plainness of his chirography, considering 
its range, will enroll him as a favorite with antiquarians. In his care for the public, 
he was vigilant, self-denying, and persevering, consulting the interest of the future 
as well as of the present. His earliest efforts at trade were directed to the purchase 



238 SANGER. 

of soldiers' rights, choice tracts of land in "Western N. Y., and the township of San- 
gerville, and a part of (larland in Maine. In 1805, he opened a store in Sherborn, 
and for a series of years, did an extensive business, and established a high reputa- 
tion for honesty, fairness, and responsibility. During this period, above 20 farms in 
S., beside others in conterminous towns, passed through his hands ; and never, during 
this time, nor, on inquiry, since, have I been able to hear of those who ever charged 
him with fraud, or any act inconsistent with fair and honorable traffic. 

With him originated tbe first cotton manufactory in Framingham ; and other enter- 
prises, in the benefits of which, individuals and the public have largely participated. 
In all business transactions his honesty and judgment were universally acknowledged. 
Such confidence was reposed in him, that he was wont to be the first chosen to arbi- 
trate differences at home and abroad, and he was sometimes associated in such courts 
with the most eminent lawyers in Mass., where immense sums were in dispute. 

Col. Sanger possessed a large and liberal spirit. He never forgot the imperfect 
rights of the unfortunate, nor waited for their cries to pain him to action. He antici- 
pated their wants, sympathized with their feelings, and gave without ostentation, not 
in stinted measures, but heaped, and in proportion at least to his ample means. His 
history supplies no argument for agrarianism. All had reason to rejoice that he was 
rich, and all, honorably dismissed from his employ, were his fast friends. Tbe old 
adage that familiarity breeds disgust is founded in the fact, that human nature is so 
corrupt, that it loses more than it gains by inspection. But in reference to Col. 
Sanger, it is evident that those who knew him best, esteemed him most ; and none 
but an envious man can deny him great benevolence and extensive usefulness. In 
his domestic relations, he was true, affectionate, indulgent, and kind. He left a 
widow still living, and eight children, six of whom survive in houorable prosperity, 
testifying by their refinement and beneficence to the wisdom and care of a father in 
their nature and education. He had, 

i. Calvin Phipps, 6 Jan. 8, 1779, m. Mary II. Ingersoll, of Cbarlestown, N. 
H, had Geo. T. 7 grad. H. U. 1855, Chs. F 7 Edmond P. 7 James 
H. 7 Wm. H M., Calvin P. and r. a merchant, New York ; 
ir. Mary Ann, 6 Nov. 7, 1805, m. 1st, Eugene Bell ; 2d, James Lord, r. 
Fram., had Emily F. 7 and Henry G. 7 Bell ; Chs. L. 7 and Mary 
Agnes 7 and Isaac Sanger" Lord ; 
in. Maria, Oct. 2, '07, d. Oct, 14, '07 ; iv. Hamlet, 6 Nov. 13, '08, m. 
Sarah Ann Paul, had, i. George Henry 7 who r. New York ; n. Anna, 
m. Nathl. H. Dowse, r. Sherborn ; 
v. Hellen, 6 July 14, 1810, m. Wm. Mellen, merchant, r. New York, and had 

Ellen, d. agd. 2 years; 
vi. Ophelia, 6 Jan. 7, '13, m. Elbridge Sanger, of S. ; 
vii. Agnes, Apl. 9, '15, m. Horace B. Claflin, merchant, r. New York,- and 

had Horace B., Wm. B., and John Clafiin ; 
vni. Anna Phipps, 6 Sept. 8, '17, d. 1847, at Sherb. ; ix, Whiting Phipps, 
Aug. 14, '19, m. Lucy Tomlinson, had Anna P. S., Francis W., r. Cali- 
fornia ; x. Infant son, b. Mar. 4, '23, and d. unnamed. 

32. 50. Joseph, 5 long and honorably associated with his brothers in trade, r. Sh., 
had, i. Elbridge, 6 June 8, 1805, m. Ophelia Sanger, had Agnes G. (d.), 

John Francis 7 (d.), Frederick Whiting 7 (d.), Agnes Clafiin, (d.), 

infant, r. Sherborn ; 
ii. William Whiting, November 19, 1807, resides unm. in Sherborn; 
in. Maria, 6 May 9, '09, m. Oliver Everett, A. M., M. D., of S. ; 
iv. Rufus, 6 June 14, '12, m. Marie Louise Debost, had, Eugene, Orlando, 

Rufus, r. New York ; 



SAWIN, SCOTT. 239 

v. Eleanor, June 11, '15, m. Samuel 0. Daniels, of Framingham, and had, 
I. Albert 7 ; II. Eleanor S. 7 ; III. Samuel Olney ; IV. Infant son ; 

vi. Sarah Eliza, Mar. 3, '18, ra. Geo. F. Sanford (d.), had Martha F, 
Geo. S., Edna J. ; 

vii. Abigail Whiting, July 16, '23, d. Sep. 19, '45 ; 

viii. Joseph Eugene, Feb. 18, '27. 



38. 55. Ralph, Rev., grad. at H. U., 1808, where he became tutor, '11, studied 
divinity with his revered father, was ordained at Dover, 1813, where he has 
served as pastor until the present time, and repeatedly represented D. in the 
Leg. of Mass. By w. Charlotte Kingman, b. July 5, 1792, m. 1817, he had 
I. Ralph, 6 Mar. 31, 1818, m. Mary Maywood, r. trader, at New Orleans, 
where be d. witbout issue, Mar. 31, '50 ; 

n. Geo. Partridge, 8 Nov. 27, '19, grad. H. U., 1840, m. Elizabeth S. 
Thompson, of Portsm., N. H., Sep. 15, '46, has 2 sons 7 and r. a lawyer, in 
Boston ; 

in. Charlotte K., 6 Aug. 17, '22, m. Wm. W. Gannett, has Thomas Brattle ; 
iv. John W.^ Mar. 14, '24, is a mariner; v. Simon Greenleaf, 6 Mar. 0, 
'27, grad. at H. U., and is a teacher; vi. Irene F., G Aug. 13, '30. 



41. GO. David, 8 inherits the homestead, a part of the Phipps farm in Sh. He had 
t. Rebecca, Feb. 8, 1799, m. Benj. Capen, had Benj., 7 r. Holl. ; Ellen 7 m. 
Jona. Morse; Elizabeth,' m. Ben. Ware, of S. ; n. Joseph, Feb. 25, 
L801, d. ab. 1837.; in. David, Jan. 13, '03, m. Anna Sawin, r. S., had 
Geo., 7 Sarah, Mary (d.), Maria, Fanny, Justin, Horatio, Mary" ; 
iv. Natal., 6 Apl. 1, '05, r. unm. in Sherborn ; v. Horatio, 6 Mar. 12, '07, 




Susan E. 



1. ThO. Sawill, b. Sept. 27, 1657, the son of John S., of Watertown, 

by w. Abigail Manning, and grd. s. of Robert S., of Roxford, Suffolk Co., 
England, in. Deborah Rice, b. Feb. 14, 1659-60, dg. of Mathew B., of 
Sudbury, by w. Martha Lamson, (see Bond) was a millwright, settled at 
Chestnut Brook, in Sherborn, whore he had a* home lot of 24 acres assigned 
him, 13 (3), 1679, and built the first mill in S. lie afterwards removed to 
Natiek. He bad in S., i. Ruth, Jly. 24, 1686 ; 
3. 2. ii. John, June 26, '89 ; in. Deborah, Apl. 4, '96. 

2. 3. John, m. Joanna , inherited his father's rights in S. ; drew land in 

Douq;., 1715 and '30, and had, i. Joanna, Aug. 28, 1715 ; n. Tho., Oct. 
12, '17; in. Deborah, Jan. 23, '19-20, m. Geo. Fairbanks, of H, '35; 
iv. John, Jly. 23. '22; v. Abigail, Jan. 24, '24-5; vi. Ezekiel, Apl. 3, 
'28; vii. Mary, Nov. 2, '31. 

Abijah, w. Millicent, had Joseph, Dec. 14, 1715, at S. 



Hugll Scott, w. Sarah, had Sarah, June 2, 1733, at S. 



240 SHEFFIELD 



1- Edmund Sheffield, was of Boxbury, 1644-5, where he m., Apl. 
it, 1044, Mary Wooddy, ?nd of Braintree, 164G-67, where he m. 2d, 
feirali Marsh, 5 (7), 16G2. In 1672, he, in company with his brother, Wm. S., 
purchased of Lt. Joshua Fisher, the grantee, 600 acres at Chabboquasset, E. 




7. Wm. Sheffield and w. Mary , were of Braintree in 1660, and began 

the first settlement of IL, 1673, on what is now called the Stedman place. 
On the breaking out of Philip's war, he is supposed to have retreated 
to Portsmouth, N. EL, from whence he afterwards came to S., where land was 
assigned him, 27 (11), 1682. Of the land which he purchased with his brother, of 
Lt. Fisher, he had obtained no deed in 1688, Lt. F. having d. 10 (6), 1672, im- 
mediately after the sale, and before completing him a deed ; and, not knowing how 
to proceed in the case, the poor man was in much trouble, and "on a training day 
in Sherborn, Nov. 22, 1688. the following petition of Wm. Sheffield was pre- 
sented " to ye fathers, with all the inhabitants of Sherborn." "' Wm. Sheffield, of 
Sherborn, the aged, your humble petitioner, doe humbly intreat you to show your 
love to me, to give, grant or con6rm my land which I bought of Lt. Fisher, of Ded- 
ham, to confirm to me and mine, I shall be very thankful to you forever; for I am 
like a man having myself half in the mire, and want to be holpen, help I pray you 
and damnifie no man with it." In answer to this " request, the inhabitants then 
present, did generally by their vote, grant and confirm to him the said land, soe far 
as they had any interest in it." He seems, by an order of the Court, to have after- 
wards obtained his deed ; but the Indian title to this tract he had extinguished in 
1675. Inl68G, he was rated the 3d highest in S., and d. Dec. 6, 1700. He had 
12. 9. I. Wm., m. Hannah Bullard ; ir. Joseph, d. urn. ab. 1750, leaving a large 
estate to his brothers and nephews, and Natha'l and Jeremiah Clark, of Med. ; 
16. 10. in. Nathaniel; iv. Daniel, pr. d. um. ; v. Mary, m. John Clark; 

vi. Hannah, m. Patridge, was dependent on her brother Natha'l in 1752 ; 

vn. Martha ; vm. Thamazin, m. Jona. Adams ; ix. Susanna ; x. Elizabeth ; 
xi. Rachel, b. 24 (3), 1660, at Braintree. Wm., senr., in his will, proved 
Mar. 24, 1700-1, gave a house and land in Boston to his wid. Mary, and 54 
acres W. of Black Swamp, in Med., to each of his daughters ; and to his 
4 sons, he divided his farm of 600 acres, giving Wm., junr., the N. E. part, 
Joseph the S. W., Nathaniel the N. W., and Daniel and the wid. Mary, 
the S. and S. E. part. 

9. 12. Wm., purchased Hopper's farm of 280 acres in the W. part of IL, d. 
intestate, Aug. 23, 1732, and his s. Wm., 3d, and wid. Hannah administered 
on his estate. She made her will, June 23, 1741, giving her estate to sons 
Isaac and Wm., Hannah Hill and Mary Foster, and d. Mar. 31, 1750. He 
was selectman, 1709, and had at S., i. Hannah, Nov. 24, 1693, m. Ephm. 
Hill ; it. Isaac, Mar. 3, 1697, drew land in Doug., 1730 ; 
15. 14. in. Win., Feb. 28, 1699 ; iv. Bachel, Oct. 12, 1702, m. Edmond 
Morse, '22, and rm. to Mendon, had Beulah, who m. Mr. Lovet, and had 

Beulah, who m. Col. Andrew Peters, of Medfd., and had Lovet 

Peters, Esq., of Westboro' ; 
v. Sarah, June 18, '08, m. Paul Morse ; vi. Mary, Nov. 27, '10, m. Jacob 
Foster. 



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14. 15. Win., a clothier, ra. Mary , rm. to Mend. ab. 1730. He had in H., 

i. Mary, Sep. 7, 1722; n. Hannah, Feb. 28, '23-4, in S; m. Deborah. 
Sep. 3, '26, in Hoi.; it. Abigail, Jly. 21, '29; v. Rachel, d. Mar. 3, 
1731, at Mendon. 

10. 16. Nathaniel, d. Jan. 21, 1753. His will, dated Dec. 8, 1752, when he 
was aged, weak and infirm, gave half his farm to his wid Mary, to dispose of 
as she should see fit, instructing her to provide for his aged sister, Hannah 
Partridge, and the other half to his s. Nathaniel, and legacies to two dgs. His 
wid. Mary, d. Jan. 25, 1754, " aged about 53 years," [see her will, Mid. 
Prob.] She gave clothes to her honored mother, her half of the farm to 
Nathl., (he to take care of his aunt, Hannah Partridge,) and other property 
to dgs. Mary and Rachel Partridge ; 

23. 17. i. Nathaniel, Feb. 3, 1727 ; n. Rachel, Mar. 30, '32, m. Partridge ; 

in. Ann, Mar. 15, '34, d. Nov. 13, '43 ; iv. Katherine, June 13, '37, d. 
Jan. 1, '43-4; v. Mary, m. Partridge. 

18. Isaac, ? m. Martha Albee, of Mend., Feb. 16, 1737-8. He r. on Doctor 
Fisk's place, S. E. part of H., and had, i. Elizabeth, Mar. 25, '41, d. Apl. 
2, '41 ; ii. Isaac, Jan. 2, '48-9, m. Abigail Wood, r. Upton; m. Mary, 
Mar. 12, '52, m. John Claflin ; iv. Elizabeth, Sep. 16, '51, d. Dec. 9, '60. 

20. John,? w. KeziaLeland, m. Apl. 17, 1750, d. Aug. 6, '58 ; 2d w., Mary 

, had at Hoi., i. Denning, Oct. 14, '50 ; n. Lois, Jan. 2, '52, d. Apl. 

5, '57 ; in. Mercy, Sep. 10, '57 ; iv. Catherine, Mar. 3, '60 ; v. Mary, 
Apl. }2, '63, by w. Mary ; vi. Joseph, June 12, '65. 

17. 23. Nathaniel, m. Lydia Gibbs, Oct. 11, 1751, had at H., i. Daniel, Oct. 31, 
'51 ; ii. Jona., Oct. 23, '54; in. Joseph, Dec. 7, '58. 

27. Daniel, m. Lydia Burbank, Mar. 1, 1772, had, i. Hannah, Oct, 8, '72; 
ii. Daniel, Jan. 23, '83. 

29. Edmond, ? m. Rachel , r. at Mendon, had, i. Elizabeth, d. Sep. 21, 

174- ; ii. Wm., d. Jan. 31, '35-6; in. Margaret, d. Oct. 4, 174- ; 
iv. Wm., d. Feb. 11, '47-8, at M. 



Nathaniel Shepard, w. Phebe, had in S., I. John, Dec. 1, 1765; 
ii. Martha, June 13, '67 ; m. Nathaniel, Aug. 29, '69. 



James P. Simons, fr. Boston, s. in H. as a merchant tailor, 1829. 



Lewis SlOCTim, s. of John S., by w. Esther Plympton, of Bellingham, m. 
Elmira Richardson ; and 2d, Louisa Watson, s. in H. ab. 1830, had Asa R., 
Lewis W., Francis D., Joseph W., Geo. W., Albert, Elmira. 



1- Nathaniel Smith,? w. Abigail, had at S., I. Katherine, Apl. 2 . 
1746; ii. Abigail, Apl. 18, '48; in. Nathaniel, Jan. 4, '49-50; 
iv. Hannah, Mar. 8, '52 ; v. Wm., Feb. 28, '54 ; vi. Wm., Mar. 24, '57 ; 
vn. David, Nov. 4, '58 , vin. Jona., Nov. 4, '58. 

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242 SPAEROWK, STANFORD, STANTON, STEDMAN, STEWART, STONE. 

0. Caleb Smith, ? w. Deborah, had in H., i. Baruck, and n. Deborah, Feb. 11, 
1705. 



8. Abel Smith,? v.-. Sarah, had in 11., i. Abigail, Oct. 19, 1766 ; 
n. Samuel, June 5, '80 ; 



10. Isaac Smith, «. of John S., of Hopk., w. Mary; 2d w., Prudence, had in 
H., i. Betsey, Nov. 9, 1778 ; it. John, Apl. 19, '81, r. H. ; in. Achsah, 
Apl. 19, '81 ; iv. Isaac, Jan. 5, '92, by 2d w., d. in H. ; v. Anna, May 
18, '96. 

1. Timothy Sparrowk, from Natiek, whose father was b. in Medfd., m. 
Deborah Leland, Dec. 14, 1775, dg. of Wm. L., of S., by w. Jemima 
Daniels, and grd. dg. of Dea. Wm. L., by w. Mehetabel Breck. He had in 

S., i. Deborah, Apl. 12, 1776, m. Wardsworth, r. N. Y. ; II. Timothy, 

Sep. 15, 1779, d. umii. ; in. Melvin, Jan 29, '80, d. yg. ; iv. John, Oct. 
5, '81, m. Betsey Young, r. N. Y. ; v. Calvin, Dec, 19, '82, m. Betsey, 
dg. of Reuben Marsh, of II., and had at S., i. Emlyn, m. Sally Green- 
wood, and 2d, Sarah H. Whitney, and has a son ; 
n. Emily, m. Lendall Perry, r. Nat. ; in. Ellis, m. Mary J. Sweet, 
..fr. Bos., rs. S., has Edwd. E., Ellen E., Chs. E., Melvin G. ; 
vi. Betsey, Apl. 21, '85, m. John Curtis, rs. Provid. ; vn. Polly, Oct. 24, 
'90, m. Samuel Fuller, of Medfd. 

6. Jacob Sparrowk, (br. of Tim. above) m. Judith Leland, 1775, dg. of Caleb 
Leland, by w. Judith Morse, had at S., i. Sinthy, Sep. 5, 1776, d. uum. ; 
ii. Alclen, Sep. 5, '79, rm. Me., m. and d. without issue ; iv. Rowland, Dec. 
11, '87, (d.), rm. Me., m. and had issue ; v. Ambrose, Oct. 3, '90, d. urn. 



1. David Stanford, m. Lydia Morse. Dec. 30, 1712, (p. 20 of Memorial 
of Morses), and had at S., i. Richard, May 23, 1714; 
4. 3. n. Caleb, Aug. 31, '16; m. Lydia, Mar. 8, '17-18 ; iv. Sarah, Sep. 22, 
'19 ; v. Rebecca, Aug. 22, '23. 

3. 4. Caleb, w. Ruth, had in S., i. Lydia, Apl. 19, 1741 ; n. Joseph, Mar. 9, 
1744--5 ; in. Abner, May 12, '47 ; iv. Phineas, Feb. 1, '48-9, m. Comfort 
Morse, '73; v. Betty, May 22, 1751; vi. Caleb, Mar. 27, '53; 
vn. Joshua, Mar. 27, '53 ; vm. Caleb, Dec. 27, '54 ; ix. Caleb, Feb. 27, '5G ; 
x. Joshua, May 4, '58 ; xi. Betty, June 3, '60 ; xn. David, May 8,. '62. 



TllO. Stanton, w. Mary, had in S., i. Mary, Jan. 25, 1742-3. 



John Stedman, m. Abigail, s." at Chabboquisset, in S. E. part of Hull., and 
had, i. Anna, Mar. 17, 1766, m. Daniel Tidd, May 5, 1791 ; 
ii. Mary, Mar. 4, '68 ; in. John, May 17, '72. 

Benj. Stewart, m. Deborah Rider, Apl. 10, 1754, who d. Jan. 9, '66. He 
had, in 11., i. Alenath, Sep. 17, '54; n. Anna, May 21, '59. 

1. James Stone, Rev. the first pastor of the chh. in IIoll., b. June 8, 
1701, s. of Ebenezer S., of Watertown, by w. Margt. Trowbridge, and grd. 
s. of Simon S., by w. Mary Whipple, and gr. grd. s. of Simon S. (w. Joan) 



STONE. 243 

who came from England in the Increase, 1G34, and settled at Watertown. 
Rev. James grad. II. Col., 17-4, kept a school at Fram., '25, ord. at Hoi., 
Nov. 20, '28, d. July 28, 1742. aged 38. "In an uncommonly sickly- 
time among his people, when he was almost constantly, night and day, visiting 
and praying with the sick, sometimes for whole nights together, being, as he 
said, willing to spend and be spent in the service of the souls of his people, 
he composed his last sermon from John 17:4. 'I have glorified thee on the 
earth ; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.' This sermon 
was published after his death, with the following preface, by Rev. Messrs. 
Porter, of S., and Peabody, of Natick. [Fitch's Dis ] 
" The great esteem which his own people, as well as those in the neighbor- 
ing towns, had of the author for his great sweetness of temper, his good 
humor, his instructive conversation, his exemplary piety, his great diligence 
and faithfulness in the work of the ministry, his prudence in all his conduct, 
his uncommon and excelling gift in prayer, and his orthodox, judicious and 
fervent preaching, — all which, and many more desirable qualifications were 
well known to shine in him, — have caused many in Holliston, and some in 
other towns to urge the publication of this sermon." 
He married Apl. 15, 1731, Elizabeth Swift, who d. Apl. 12, 1739. He m. 

2d, , and had, 

2. r. John, Esq., b. June 21, 1732, d. Aug. 13, 1817, at Fram. ; 
ii. Elizabeth, May 13, 1735; 
[ii. Ncvinson, b. March 17, '36-7, d. Dec. 8, 1740. 



2. 3. John, Esq., inherited the place of his father, whose house is yet standing 
a few rods N. of the Wictbrop House in II., in which he long kept a tavern. 
He m. Mary Haven, from Fram., who d. Oct. 1, 1809, a. 77, and had, 

5. 4. i, James, June 25, 1754, m. Deborah Puce ; n. Sarah, Dec. 2, '59, d. 
1843, m. John Bent, of Fram. ; in. John, June 6, '65, m. Rebecca Sanger, 
'00, kept the only store in H. for almost 20 years, and d. without issue. 

4. 5. James settled about 40 rods S. of his father as a ploughmaker, m. Deborah 
Rice, '79, and had, i. Hannah, July 24, 1783, m. Luther Hart, r S.boro', 
ii. James, 's6 ; in. Nathan; VI. Nevinson, Nov. 14, '93; 
v. Deborah, July 19, '97. 

9. Daniel Stone ? m. Hannah Foster, Sep., 15, 1755, and had at H, Nath'l, 
Mar. 22, 1750. 



11. Timothy Dwight P. Stone, Rev., born at Cornwall, Ct., about 1811, son of 

Rev. S. and the adopted s. of Rev. Ebenr. Porter, D. D., Prof, in 

Theo. Sem., And., grad. at Amh. Col., 1834, studied Theology at the Sem. 
in And., where he m. He was ord. at H. Mar. 1. 1843, dism. Mar. 2, '49, 
chaplain of the S. Reform School, at W.boro', next Princ. of the S. Normal 
School, of Ct., and now, 1855, rs. a teacher at Norwich, Ct. 

12. Silas Stone, Esq., b. at Natick, Apl. 5, 1755, s. of Silas S., by wife 
Elizabeth Russell, s. at W. Sherborn, having previously lived at Dublin. He 
was selectman, 1793, 1801, '08, '09, '14, had a facetious turn of mind, an 
inventive genius, and uncommon knowledge of books. He m. Jennett 
Twitchell, who d. June, 181<>. lied. .July, 1820, had, i. Caroline, May 21, 
1781, d. nnm. ; n. Ebenezer, May 20, 1783, d. yg. ; in. Daphne, March 
10, '85, m. Luther Leland, of S. ; iv. Roval, 'Mar. 6, '87, d. Nov. 11, 
1854 ; v. Deborah, Apl. 17, '89, d. unm. ; vi. Seneca, Feb. 21, '91, d. a. 



244 STOItRS, STOW, STRATEN. 

13 yr. ; vn. Silas, Jan. 16, '93, d. unm., '47 ; vm. Emlyn, Feb. 28, '95, 
d. aged 18 yrs. ; ix. Ebenezer, Oct. 10, '97, M. D., r. Walpole, m. Elizth. 
H. Hawes; x. Mary, Oct. 20, '99, r. S. 



John.StorrS, Bev., b. at Mansfield, Ct.,_Sep. 6, 1801, grad. at Middleb. Col., 
'24, studied Theology at the Sem. in New Haven, was installed pastor of 
Congl. Chh. in H., Dec. 20, '36, dis. Nov. 2, '42, and s. in Winchendon, 
Aug. 22, '49, where he d. May, '54. 



Samuel StOW, w. Abigail, had in S., I. Anne, Aug. 17, 1770 ; n. Samuel, 

June 25, '72; in. Melvin, Jly. 6, '74; iv. Sally, Oct. 28, '77; 

v. Andrew Newell, May 13, '80 ; vi. Polly, Dec. 12, '84 ; vn. Walter, 

Oct. 27, '88. 

■ « i » « 

1. Jabez Straten, b. May 28, 1701, from Natick to S., where he d. 
Feb. 15, 1774. His w., Tabatha Cooledge, m. Apl. 29, 1725, d. Jly. 21, 
1794, a. 94. He, according to Bond, was the s. of John S., of Watertown, 
and grd. s. of John, of W., by w. Elizabeth Traine, and the gr. grd. s. of 
Samuel, of Concord, by w. Mary Fry, and gr. gr. grd. s. of Samuel S., of 
W., who was b. 1592, and admitted freeman, May 18, 1653. He had 
17. 2. i. Abijah, May 4, 1726, m. Sarah Kimball ; 

6. 3. ii. Nathan, Oct. 7, 28 ; 
11.4. in. Elias, Oct. 22, '30 ; iv. Sarah, Nov. 29, '34 ; v. Ebenezer, Apl. 30, '41. 

3. 6. Nathan, Col., m. Oct. 27, 1784, Mary Bullen, settled upon the farm left by 

her father, at Chestnut Brook, now Isaac Cozzen's, and d. Feb. 7, 1805, 
laying down a wen which he long carried upon his back, the post mortem 
weight of which exceeded 401b. She d. Apl. 24, 1810, a. 87, and was the 
last witch in S. accused of miraculous power derived from Satan. They had 
in S., i. Nathan, May 1, 1761, who m. Sarah Stratten, his cousin, and 

had in S., i. Ruth, Nov. 12, 1784; n. Amelia, Mar. 18, '87; 

in. Mary, Feb. 12, '89; iv. Ephraim, Nov. 27, '93 ; v. Jabez, May 

12, '96, s. pr. in Leominster ; vi. John, May 17, '98, s. pr. ditto; 

vn. Sally, Dec. 2, 1800. 

4. 11. Elias, m. Mellicent , and had, i. Mellicent, May 20, '55 ; u. Sarah, 

June 13, '57 ; 

12. in. Ebenezer, Aug. 27, '59 ; 

13. iv. Elias, Dec. 20, '61 ; 

14. v. Jona., Jan. 20, '65; vi. Hannah, Apl. 23, '66; vn. Joseph, June 
11, '68 ; vm. Jabez, Apl. 2, '70 ; ix. Abijah, Mar. 6, '72 ; x. Molly, 
Jly. 1, '73. 

2. 17. Abijah, Cpt., w. Sarah Kimball, i. Abigail, m. Warren; 

25. 18. n. Daniel, m. Susanna Morse, r. N. ; in. Betsey, m. ■ Adams; 

iv. Abijah, Apl. 10, 1751, m. Sarah, b. Jan. 3 4, 1756, had 
21. 20. i. Abijah, May 25, 1775, d. Oct, 29, 1838, m. Hannah Bacon; 2d, 

Hannah (Fuller) Kimball ; n. Polly, May 2, '78, m. Jonas Green- 
wood ; in. Sally, May 21, '80, d. urn.; iv. Betsey, Mar. 13, '83, 
m. Ezra Morse, of S. 

20. 21. Abijah, w. Hannah Bacon, r. on the homestead, on the old road fr. S. to 



STROUD, SUMNER, TAY, TENNEY, TOMBLING, TRAVIS. 245 

S. Nat,, E. of a brook, and had at N., i. John, Nov. 4, 1798, inherited the 
ancient homestead, m. Betsey Kimball, and had, 

i. Catherine D. (d.) ; n. Elizabeth A. ; in. Harriet A. j iv. Hanh. ; 

v. Catherine D. (d.) ; vi. Abijah E. ; vn. John H. ; vin. Martha 

I. ; ix. Geo. W. ; 
ii. Moses, r. on the farm formerly Samuel Perry's, m. Sarah Perry ; 2d, 
Mary Whitney, and had at N., i. Mary W. (d.) ; n. Chs. (d.) ; 

in. Francis ; iv. Miriam C. ; 
in. Mary, d. urn. ; iv. Sarah, m. Caleb Fosket, r. N. ; v. Aaron, Jan. 26, 
1811, m. Susanna Russel, r. on his father's homestead, S. of Peter's Hill, had 

i. John E. ; ii. Horace J. 



18. 25. Daniel, by w. Susanna Morse, had at N., i. Daniel ; II, Jona. ; in. Wm., 
Mar. 0, 1795, (d.,) ra. Sally Bullard, r. S., had 

i. John, rs. Bos. ; and Eliza M., Apl. 6, 1829, m. Andrew Becker, b. Alp. 
6, 1824, at Schornsheim, Hesse Darmstad, Ger., s. of Andrew B., by w. 
Catherine Lahr, and has Mary E., and Wm. 



Wm. Stroud, w. Rebecca , had at S., i. Moses, Dec. 30, 1778 ; 

n. Aaron, Dec. 4, '80. 



Daniel Sumner, m. Lydia Fairbanks, and had Joel, July 31, 1761. 



DOCt. Jona. Tay came from Salem and established himself as a physician in 
the S. W. part of S., had an extensive practice, served as selectman, 
1795-1807, m. Mary Holbrook and had, i. Polly, Jan. 11, 1776 ; 
ii. Betsey, Sep. 30, '77; in. Calvin, Nov. 8, '81, a teacher, pr. d. unm.; 
iv. Mary, Aug. 23, '84 ; v. Sally, May 11, '90 ; vi. Sylvia, Aug. 29, '93 ; 
vii. Jona., July 25, '96, d. yg. 



Tho. Tenney, w. Abigail, had in H., i. Samuel, July 19, 1745 ; 

ii. Deborah, Sep. 16, '47, d. Sep. 20, '48 ; in. Daniel, May 13, '49 ; 
iv. Ebenezer, May 24, '51 ; v. Sarah, May 8, '55 ; vi. Ruth, Mar. 5, '57 ; 
vn. Tho., July 29, '58; vin. Isaac, May 28, '60; ix. Oliver, Aug. 21, 
'62 ; x. Olive, Aug. 21, '62, m. Seth Sprague, Aug. 9, '83 ; 
xi. Abigail, July 8, '64. 

Seth Tombling, m. Susanna Thompson, Nov. 6, 1746, and had in H., 
i. Martha, Oct. 17, '47, d. Aug. 3, '59; n. Rebecca, Feb. 1, '48-9, m. John 
Travis, '70; m. Susanna, Oct. 29, '50, d. Aug. 27, '59; iv. Sarah, Oct. 
30, '52, d. Aug. 20, '51; v. Seth, Dec. 10, '54; vi. Timothy, Nov. 11, 
'56; vn. Pegga, Dec. 25, '58, m. Elkanor Prentice, '84; vin. Patty, Jan. 
23, '67; ix. Eleoner, Sep. 23, '69. 



Joseph Travis, w. Mehetabel , had in S., i. Sarah, Apl. 21, 1728 ; n. Asa 

May 28, '29; ill. Zeruiah, July 10, '33. 

Daniel Travis, m. Abigail Sanger, May 29, 1793, had i. John, Apl. 8, 
1794; ii. Curtis, Feb. 8, '96; Mercy, w. of Jas. Travis, d. Dec. 1, 1744. 



246 TUCKER, TWITCHELI. 

James Travis, w. Rebecca, d. a wid., Dec. 8, 1757, had in H., i. James, b. 
Feb. 29, 1731-2; n. Daniel, June 17, '34; m. Thankful, July 15, '37. 

John Travis, m. Anna Maxwell, Jan. 7, 1741-2, had, in IIol., i. Isaac, Apl. 
27, 174G, d. May 12, '46; n. John, Sep. 15, '47 ; in. Mary, Oct. 1, '49, 
d. July 20, '51 ; iv. Mercy, Nov. 23, '51 ; v. Sarah, Sep. 27, '53. 

. m*^* 

JOSh.Ua TllOmaS Tucker, Rev., born Sep. 20, 1812, son of Joshua T., 
of Milton, by w. Wealthy Thomas, from Pembroke, grd. s. of Samuel 
T., and gr. grd. s. of Samuel, and gr. gr. grd. s. of Manasseh, (Dea. of 1st 
chh. in Milton) and gr. gr. gr. grd. son of Robert Tucker, of Weymouth, in 
1639, fitted for Col. at Phillips Acad., grad. at Y. C, 1833, studied Theol- 
ogy at Lane Sem., ord. by the Presbytery of Alton, 111., '37, missionary at 
Rushville, 111., '37-40 ; Pastor at-Hannibal, Mo., '40-46, and do. and editor at 
St. Louis, Mo., '46-48 ; and installed at H., June 6, '49, and is the present 
Pastor. Mr. T. is advantageously known both as a preacher and writer. 
His publications, besides many rich contributions to our periodical literature, 
are 11 in No., viz., Dying Scenes, a memorial of Mrs. Mary 0. Tucker; 
Thanksgiving Ser., Hannibal, Mo., '45 ; Hist, of 1st chh. at Hannibal, '45 ; 
Ser. on God's Ministry of Judgment, Holliston, '49 ; Funeral Ser. on Mr. 
Harding Daniels, H., '49 ; Ser. on State Fast, H, '51 ; Maine Temperance 
Law, '51 ; Sers. on the Death of Dea. Horace Partridge, II., '53 ; to Young 
Men, '53 ; and on the death of Rev. Alfred Hawes, H., '54. His work en- 
titled The Sinless One, or the Life Manifested, a 12mo vol. of 324 pp., Bos., 
'55, is a work of great merit, proving what may be expected hereafter from his 
pen. He m. Mary O. Stibbs, dg. of Christopher and Elizabeth S., of Lond., 
England, who d. '44 ; and 2d, Ann D. Shackford, dg. of John and Jane S., 
of Portsmouth, N. H, has had 5 chid., only 2 of whom survive. 



William Tucker, from Milton with a family, s. in S., about 80 rods S. W. 
of Peters Hill, was T. clerk, and rep. in 1787, and selectman in '87 and 
'90. His son Wm., jun., m. Julia Twitchell, May 18, 1786, and had in S., 
i. Sally, Jan. 4, '87 ; n. Wm., Feb. 17, '89 ; m. Calvin, Apl. 15, '91. 



1. Joseph Twitchell, of Dorchester, was admitted freeman, May 14, 
1634, had land there assigned him, Feb. 18, 1635-6, was received into the 
chh. 8 (1), 1644, lost a son Joseph, 13 (7), 1657. He might have had a 
2d Joseph, [No. 3 and 8,] who bought land, and s. in S. ? or he did so. 

2. Benj. Tutchell, of Dorchester, probably his brother, appears to have re- 
moved to Medfield as early as 1663, where he and his children took the 
name of Twitchell. His wife's name was Mary. He had 

8. 3. i. pr. Joseph, ? d. Oct. 24, 1710, at S. ; or as I had reported, he might 
have been the sou of Joseph, No. 1., and named after 13 (7). 1 <> ">7 ; 
63. 4. ii. Benj., m. Mary White, at Medfield, Apl. 5, 1683, d. at_S., 1715-30, 
pr. with issue ; in. Mary, 8 (1), 1658-9, at Dorch., m. Josiah Rocket, at 
Medfield, May 9, 1677, d. 1699. She had Bethia, Hank., Mehet. ; 
iv. Hannah, who m. Nov. 4, 1679, Samuel Hill, at Sh., son of John Hill, 
fr. Dorch., had Bphm., Sarah, Lydla ; 

v. Bethia, who m. Jly. 19, 1688, John Rocket, and d. Jan. 1, 1706-7. 
She had Joseph, Benj., Deborah, fyc. ; 
5. vi. Abiell, b. Nov. 1, 1663, at Medfield, and pr. others, from whom 



TWITCH ELL. 24 7 

G. Benoni T., of Medfd., descended, who m. Hannah Allen, Apl. 18, 
7. 1705, and had, besides 4 children that d. yg. ; Seth, Nov. 9, 1711, 
who m. Dorothy Bishop, Jan. 7, 1735--G, at Wrenth., and became in 
1715, with Joseph Hoeket, his cousin, apronrietor of Oxford. 

8.? 8. Joseph, became the owner of 100 acres of the 1st grants in S., and united 
with others to extinguish the Indian claim to them, June 12, 1GS2, and was 
rated, 1686, to extinguish the Indian claim to the rest of the lands in S. He, 
Jos., the younger, m. Lydia, who d. 1715-30, s. at W. Sherborn, and built 
Ins house a few rods N. W. of Royal Stone's, where home lots were assigned 
him and his namesake, Benj. He had, i. Patience, Dec. 2, 1G78, m. 
Samuel Eames, Apl. 21, 1698; n. Content, Jan. 25, '80; in. Charity, 
Dec. 7, '82 ; iv. Sarah, Nov. 15, '84 ; v. Lydia, Oct. 11, '8G, d. 1710 ; 

11. 9. vi. Joseph, Sep. 3, '88, d. Jan. 31, 1728; 

14. 10. vii. Epbraim, Oct. 24, '95. 

9. 11. Joseph, m. Klizabeth Holbrook, of p. 142, and had at Sherborn 

15. 12. i. Joseph, Esq., Feb. 13, 1718-19; 

27. 13. ii. Jona., Den., July 22, '21, d. prior to 1781. 

10. 14. Ephraim, m. Sarah Millen, who d. Aug. 28, 1725. He m. 2d, Hannah 

Sanger, Feb. 9, '2G--7, do. of Richard S., by w. Elizth. Morse ; had at S., 
50. 15. t. Tho., Sep. 29, 1722; 

1G. ii. Ephraim, Oct. 25, '23, m. Patience Eames, 1752, he then of Mcndon ; 

in. James, Aug. 7. '25. d. May 5, '52 ; iv. Hannah, June 7, '29, m. 

Tim. Leland, jun., of H.-; v. Sarah, Sep. 1, '31, d. Nov. 9, '34; 

vi. Lydia, Dec. G, '33; 
52. 17. vii. Timothy, June*ll, '36; vnr. Elizabeth, Nov. 20, 'S3. 

From this family, the Twitchells of Milford have probably descended. 

12. 18. Joseph, Esq. Tradition has brought down a high character of this man, 

and the records confirm it. He was Capt. of the militia, Commissary for the 
army in the war of '7G, Town Clerk, Representative and Magistrate, and the 
leading man of the town, until succeeded by his junr. half brother, the Hon. 
Daniel Whitney. He m. Deborah Fairbanks, June 28, 1739, dg. of Capt. 
Eleazer F., of S., and was, with her, received into the chh., Jly. 27, 1740. 
He m. 2d, Deborah (Sanser) Fassct, Jan. 1, 178G, and d. with the apo- 
plexy, Mar. 12. ''.12. He had 

28. 19. i.'Samuel, Capt., Aug. 24, 1740 ; 

33. 20. ii. Joseph, jun., Nov. 27. '41; m. Elizabeth, Jly. 27, '13, m. Joel 

White, fr. Medfd., May 30, '67, and rm. Dublin, N. H. ; 

21. iv. Eleazer, Jan. 22, '44-5, r. Nelson, N. H., Bethel, Me., m. Martha 

Mason, Apl. 4, '68, had Simeon, Feb. 18, 1770, at S., Deborah, Feb.l, '72, 

at Dub., rm. Bethel. 3Ie. ; 

35. 22. v. Ezra, June 23, '46; vr. Martha, Deq. 16, '47, m. Nathan Bixby, of 

Fram., Oct. 3, '71 ; vn. Deborah, Mar. 26, '49, d. May 13, '52 ; 
41. 23. vin. Abel, May 28, '51 ; ix. Deborah, Dec' 23. '52, m. Joseph May- 
nard, of F., May 5, ? 7"» ; x. Molly, May 17, '55, m. Moses Rider, of 
Jeffery, N. II., dan. IS. '84, and bad Ezra, Aug. 30, '86, of Kecne; 
2-1. xi. Amos, Dec. 28, '56, who d. in the army ; 
25. xii. Eli, Feb. 17, '59, m. Rhoda Leland, Sep. 23, '84; 
48. 20. xin. Peter, bap. Aug. 30, 'GO ; xiv. Jule, Mar. 18, 'GG, m. Wm. 
Tucker, of Fram. 



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13. 27. Jona., Dea., m. Deborah Bullard, Mar. 1, 1743-4, dg. of Benj. B., of S., by 
W. Miriam Morse, and was killed by a fall from a horse, Jly. 23, '81. He was a 
merab. of thechh.,had, i. Miriam, Dec. 17, '44, m. Capt. Isaac Bullard, of Hob, 
Apl. 5, '87 ; ii. Jona., Apl. 7, '47, d. Aug. 7, '49; in. Kezia, Apl. 13, 
'49, ni. Benj. Kendall, of Sh., Apl. 1, '67; iv. Anne, May 24, '51, m. 
Jabez Patridge, of S., May 19, '72, and had Henry, of Medfield; 
v. Jona., Apl. 6, '54, d. yg. ; vi. Peter, Aug. 11, '57, d. yg. ; 
vn. Jennett, Nov. 5, '60, m. Silas Stone, Jan. 9, '81, and s. on the home- 
stead ; vin. Deborah, Dec. 15, '64, d. yg. ; ix. Jona., Sep. 2, '67, d. yg. 

19. 28. Samuel, united with the chh. in S., Mar. 18, 1764, m. Alice Wilson, 
Feb. 2, 1766, dg. of Dr. John and Mary W., of S. ; 2d, Elizabeth Young, 
Nov. 2, 1807, and was among the first planters of Dublin, and resided on the 
place now occupied by Harvy Learned. He had, i. Hannah, Jly. 7, '67 ; 
29. ii. Ephraim, Aug. 7, '68 ; in. Mary, Jan. 23, '71, m. Samuel Fisk, of D. ; 
iv. Betty, Apl. 18, '73 ; v. Samuel, June 13, '75, d. Sep. 1, '77 ; 
vi. Samuel, Nov. 13, '77, d. Apl. 8, '84 ; 
• 30. vn. Amos, M. D., Apl. 11, '81, d. May 26, 1850, m. Betsey Goodhue, 
r. Keene, was a physician and surgeon of great eminence, [see Bowditch's 
Life of him ; 

31. vin. Timothy, Jan., '83, r. Mobile, Alaba. ; 

32. ix. Samuel, Feb. 26, '85, s. on the homestead at D. 



20. 33. Joseph, m. Marcy Holbrook, Nov. 13, '66, dg. of Nathl. H., of S., by w. 
Sarah Sanger, settled very early at Dublin, and had, i. Joseph, Nov. 
24, 1767, d. yg. ; n. John, Nov. 24, '67, d. yg. ; in. Jona., June 27, 
'69, pr. d. yg. ; iv. Marcy, June 4, '72, d. yg. ; v. Joseph, Nov. 12, '74, 
d- yg- ; vi. Moses, Jan. 6, '77 ; vn. Marcy, Feb. 4, '79, m. John Snow ; 
vin. Joseph, June 21, '81, m. Sally Taggart ; ix. Persis, May 4, '84, m. 
Daniel Twitchell ; 
119. 34. x. Reuben, May 17, '86, m. Sally Wilder. 

22. 35. Ezra, m. Susanna Rice, fr. Fram., r. Dublin, Nelson, Bethel, 

i. Susanna, Nov. 9, '68, d. Dec. 19, '76, at Fram. ; n. Hannah, Nov. 9, 
'68 ; in. Anna, Dec. 15, '70 ; iv. Calvin, June 4, '73 ; v. Susanna, Nov. 
27, '77 ; 

36. vi. Calvin, Nov. 2, '79 ; 

37. vn. Ezra, Nov. 24, '81, r. Bethel, Me. ; 

38. vin. Eli, Jly. 26, '85 ; 

39. ix. Thadeus; 

40. x. Nathan, r. Bethel, Me. 

23. 41. Abel, m. Sarah Adams, settled in Dublin, and had, i. Sally, Apl. 9, 1775; 
ii. Deborah, Aug. 14, '76 ; 

43. in. Cyrus, Mar. 13, '78; iv. Polly, Feb. 5, '80; 

44. v. Peter, Jly. 10, .'81, m. Hannah Belknap, Dec. 22, 1803 ; 
116. 45. vi. Abel, Jly. 13, '83, d. Jly. 15, 1834, m. Abigail Greenwood; 

vn. Betsey, Oct. 18, '84 ; 
46. vin. Timothy Adams, May 29, '92. 

26. 48. Peter, rs. at Bethel, Me., has been for 40 ys. a vegetarian in diet; was 
accustomed in 1851 to walk 4 m. to chh. and back on the Sabbath, and stand 
during the delivery of the sermon ; has aided, by his clear recollection, in re- 










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covering the his. of S., and long been in intellect, heart, and habits, an honor 
to his race. He m. Sarah Bullard, May 8, 1783, d. Sep. 20, '91 ; and 2d, 
Amy Perry, Jan. 10, '93, dg. of Edwd. West Perry, of S., and had 
i. Almond, Jly. 10, '83, d. Nov. 18, '92, a. ab. 9 ys. ; n. Jona., b. 
1789 ; in. Eli, d. of small pox, Sep. 26, '92, at S. ; iv. Eli, b. Jly. 22,'94 ; 
v. Julia, Apl. 10, '97. 

15. 50. Tho., m. Susannah, and had at Hoi., i. Sarah, Jan. 25, 1718-9 ; 
ii. Joshua, Nov. 13, '50; in. Mary, May 2, '51. 

17. 52. Timothy, inherited the farm of his father, in Hoi., which he sold to Major 
Miller, about 1802, and rm. to Barre. He m. Sarah Adams, Feb. 25 
1702, dg. of Benoni A., of Hoi., and grd. dg. of Moses A., and gr. grd 
dg. of Moses, of Sh., and had 

5G. 53. i. Joseph, Jan. 9, '63, rm. to Wardsbury, Vt. ; n. Hannah, Jly. 4, '64 
in. Sarah, Sep. 2, '66 ; iv. Mary, Jan. 20, '69 ; 

54. v. Timothy, Oct. 1, '70, s. in Wardsbury, Vt. ; vi. Lucy, Dec. 13, '72 
vn. Ruth, Oct. 9, '74; 

55. vm. Uriel, Feb. 2, '77, rm. to Black River, N. Y. 

53. 56. Joseph, s. pr. at Wardsbury, Vt., and had 

i. Joseph, of Hoston; n. Appleton, rs. Jamaica, Vt. ; in. Horace, rs. 
at do.; iv. David, rs. on Black R., N. Y. ; v. Timothy, rs. do.; 
vi. Uriel , rs. do. 



62. Joshua, ? m. Sarah Cousins, Jan. 1, 1778, and settled in Dublin. 



4. 63. Benj., settled in S., with Joseph T., as early as 1678, drew a home 
lot of 14 acres, at W. Sherborn, 13 (3), 1679, and seems to have been con- 
nected with Ebenr. Badcock, fr. Milton. He had, by w. Mary White 

67. 64. i.. Benj., Sep. 15, '84, d. 1722-30 ; 

71. 65. n. John, Jan. 4, '88 ; 

74. 66. in. Ebenezer, Dec. 10, '91, d. June 14, 1778 ; iv. Mary, Aug. 28, '94; 
v. Abigail, June 5, '99. 



64. 67. Benj., m. Mary , and had, t. Daniel, Nov. 11, 1711 ; 

68. ii. Daniel, Feb. 22, '14-15 ; 

77. 69. in. Benj., Dec. 2, '16 ; 

70. iv. Jonas, May 15, 19 ; v. Abigail, Mar. 24, '21-22. 

65. 71. John, m. Esther Sanger, Feb. 2, 1720-1, who d. ab. '28; and 2d, Hanh. 

Perry, Mar. 10, 1728-9, dg. of John P., jun., of S., by w. Sarah Hill, and 
had at H. 
79. 72. i. David, Mar., 1722, m. Sarah Marsh, May 21, '47 ; 

81. 73. ii. Moses, Mar. 18, '23-4, m. Mary Foster, Nov. 24, '49; 

in. Miriam, Feb. 27, '33. 

66. 74. Ebenezer, m. Sarah Pratt, of S., Dec, 1717, who was red. to the chh., 

Apl. 7, '54, r. S., had 

82. 75. i. Ebenezer, Dec. 20, '18, d. Aug. 18, 1800, m Mercy Sawin ; 

ii. Sarah, June 12, '20, m. Seth Bullard ; 
87. 76. in. Gersham, Oct. 6, '25, m. Hanh. Sawin, fr. Watertown. 

69. 77. Benj., m. Lydia Fisk, Nov. 25, 1740, at Med., pr. dg. of John F., of S., 
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250 TWITCHBLL. 

by w. Lydia Adams, and b. Jan. 14,1711-12, or her sis. L., 2d, and had at S., 
i. Lydia, June 7, '41 ; 
78. n. Isaac, Feb. 9, '42-3 ; in. Lois, Dec. 20, '44. 

72. '79. David, m. Sarah Marsh, May 21, 1747, dg. pr. of Joseph M., of S., by 

w. Sarah, and had, i. Esther, Sep. 29, '48 ; n. Joseph, Sep. 10, '50. 

73. 81. Moses, m. Mary Foster, Nov. 24, 1749, dg. of Jacob F., of Holl., and 

had at Holl., i. Rachel, Aug. 19, '50. 

75. 82. Ebenezer ( " doublet "), m. Mercy , d. Jan. 29, 1774, had at S. 

i. John, Aug. 24, 1743, d. Oct. 28, '46, r. in S., h m. S. of the W. ; 
92. 83. ii. Ebenezer ("triplet"), Ens., Aug. 15, '45 ; in. John, Apl. 7, '48; 
112. SSh iv. Abijah, Aug. 3, '50, d. Jly. 11, '77, in the army; 
99. 84." v. Joshua, Mar. 4, '53, r, Fitzwm., Dub., N. H., and rm. Andover, Vt. ; 

vi. Mercy, Mar. 4, '55, m. Moses Leland, of S., May 26, '74; vn. Elizth, 

bap. Mar. 26, '58, m. John Golden, of S., May 23, '76; vm. Comfort, 

bap. June 8, '60 ; •> 

96. 85. ix. John, bap. Jan. 30, '63, m. Catherine Tucker, June 1, '86 ; 

x. Julia, bap. Mar. 25, '65, m. Wm. Tucker, jun., of S., May 18, '86 ; 
86. xi. Sawin, bap. Oct. 7, '69, r. Fitzwm., and rm. Andover, Vt. 

76. 87. Gersham, was reed, to the chh. in S., 1748, m. Hanh. , rm. to Dub. ; 

105. 88. i. Gersham, Sep. 13, '48 ; n. Sarah, Nov. 12, '50 ; 

111. 89. in. Stephen, June 25, '53; iv. Hannah, Dec. 20, '55 ; v. Isaac, Mar. 
29, '58 ; vi. Isaac, 2d, Sep. 27, '67 ; vn. Sawin, Oct. 6, '69. 

83. 92. Ebenezer, Ens., m. Waitstill Greenwood, June 4, 1767, dg. of Wm. G., 

of S., who d. June 11, '88, settled in Dublin, and had i. Sarah, Jan. 9, '68 ; 
114. 93. ii. John, June 2, '70, m. Dorcas Twitchell ; in. Mary, Jan. 23, '71 ; 

94. iv. Eli, Oct. 29, '72, r. Unity, N. H., or Vt. ; 
117. 95. v. Daniel, Apl. 3, '75 ; vi. Lydia, Apl. 2, '81 ; vn. Miriam, Apl. 7, 

'83 ; vm. Waitstill, Jan. 21, '86, m. Aaron Brooks, Mar. 13, 1806 ; 

ix. Julia, May 28, '88. 

85. 96. John, m. Catherine Tucker, June 1, '86, inherited his father's farm in S. 
i. Abigail, Oct. 1, 1787, d. urn. ; 
120. 97. ii. John, Mar. 6, 1789, m. Lucy Metcalf, dg. of Philip M., d. where his 
son, Ben. Twitchell; r. in S. ; in. Clary, Oct. 5, '92, m. Daniel Metcalf, r. 
Med. ; iv. Calvin, b. Feb. 25, '99, m. Mary Greenwood, r. Fram. ; 
v. Polly, bap. June 5, 1803, d. yg. ; vi. Chs., Oct. 20, '05, d. yg. ; 
vn. Chs., m. Joanna Cuzzens, r. Ashland ; vm. Mary Ann, bap. Apl. 3, 
'09, m. Gardner Edmunds, r. Boston. 

84. 99. Joshua, m. Sarah Cousens, Jan. 1, 1778, had at Dublin 

100. i. Abijah, Apl. 10, '78, m. Rachel Hogg, Dec. 4, 1800, r. Me. ; 
n. Sally, Mar. 21, '80, m. Benj. Wilder, r. Plymouth, Vt. ; 

101. in. Joshua, Aug. 26, '82, r. Jackson, Me., m. Julia Cozzens; 

102. iv. Ebenezer, Jly. 7, '84, m. Polly Cozzens, r. J. ; 

118. 103. v. Joseph, Sep. 16, '86, m. Hannah Greenwood, r. Dublin ; 

104. vi. Timothy, Mar. 23, '89, m. Sally Bullard, and s. in Sherborn ; 
vn. Patty, Mar. 28, '91, d. urn. : vm. Betsey, June 12, '93, r. Dub., urn. ; 
ix. Asa; x. Hanh., m. Crombe Chadwick ; xi. Moses, r. um., Dublin ; 
xn. Aaron, r. Harbour Cr., Pa. 



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88. 105. Gersham, m. Prudence Adams, Sep. 12, 1771 ; 2d, Prissilla Holt, 

Oct. 2, '79, settled at Dublin, and had, i. Luther, Sep. 18, '73 ; 

ii. Hannah, May 20, '75 ; hi. Prudence, Apl. 19, '77 ; iv. Josiah, Mar. 

14, '79 ; v. Daniel, Feb. 21, '81 ; vi.. Prudence, June 10, '83, ra. John 
Minot, Sep. 15, '05 ; vn. Polly, Apl. 22, '85 ; vm. Dorcas, June 1, '87 ; 
ix. Gersham, Apl. 10, '89; x. John, Apl. 20, '92. 

89. 111. Stephen, m. Lucy Norcross, May 27, 1779, r. D., had, i. Elizabeth, 

Dec. 7, '80 j ii. Sarah, Jly. 8, '81 ; in. Julah, Oct. 6, '82 ; 
iv. Hannah, Oct. 13, '94. 

831 112. Abijah, m. Lydia Adams, Feb. 27, '72, d. Mar. 10, '76, r. D., had, 
115. 113. i. Thaddeus, Jan. 23, '73, reared by his grd. father, T. ; n. Dorcas, 
Oct. 5, '74, m. John Twitchell ; in. Lydia, Mar. 2, '76, d. yg. 

93. 114. John, m. Dorcas Twitchell, had at D., i. John, Aug. 20, '98, d. Oct. 
11, '98; ii. Gilman, Jly. 28, 1800, d. Oct. .19, 1800; ra. Matilda G., 
Jly. 28, '01 ; iv. Silvia, Mar. 23, '03 ; v. Leander, Nov. 16, '04, d. Oct. 
20, '05 ; vi. Emily, Feb. 19, '06, d. Oct. 31, '07. 

113. 115. Thaddeus, m. Nancy Fairbank, of Mend., Nov. 25, 1795, r. Dublin. 

i. Abijah, Feb. 3, '97 ; n. Hannah, Apl. 5, '99 ; in. Mary, Jly. 6, 1801 ; 
iv. Nancy, Aug. 20, '03 ; v. Mira, Jly. 31, '06 ; vi. Lucy, Sep. 1, '08. 

45. 116. Abel, m. Abigail, i. Elvira, Apl. 25, 1809 ; n. Albertson, Feb. 23, 
'11; in. Elvira, Apl. 14, '17. 

95. 117. Daniel, m. Persis, r. D., i. Adaline, May 30, 1807 ; n. Almira, Jly. 

15, '08; in. Darius, June 25, '10; iv. Persis A., June 25, '14; 
v. Joseph, d. Oct. .5, '16. 

103. 118. Joseph, m, Hannah Greenwood, Dec. 29, 1814, r. D., i. Rufus, Oct. 9, 
1815, d. yg. ; n. Horace, Nov. 21, '16, r. Med. ; in. Julia Ann, Feb. 9, 

'19, d. yg. ; and others. 

34. 119. Reuben, m. Sally, i. Orlando, Feb. 6, 1808 ; Reuben W., Sep. 17, 10. 

97. 120. John, w. Lucy Metcalf, had, i. Benj., Jan. 23, 1817, m. Mary Chap- 
man, has Harriet N. ; ii. Abigail, m. Sylvester Eames, r. H.; in. Lucy 
E., m. Luther E. Leland, r. Ashd. ; iv. Chs., m. Catherine Dearth, r. Fram. ; 
v. Susan, in. John Allen, r. Holl. 



John Twitchell, jun., ? of Warwick, m. Lydia Tenny, Nov. 3, 1781, at Milfd. ; 

Thomas, ? of W.boro', m. Phebe Pond, Nov. 5, 1783 ; 

Morris, ? m. Cath. French, Nov. 9, 1797, at Mendon ; 

Gersham, ? of Milford, had i. Martin, Jan. 18, 1779, who m. Elinor Lamb, 
of Oxfd., Jan. 25, 1807; n. Levi, 1780, d. um. ; in. Elisha, r. M., 

and um. ; iv. Betsey, Sep. 18, '85, m. Paine, of Custom House, 

Boston ; v. Gersham, d. without issue ; vi. Ella, May 18, '83 ; 

Ephra ,? of Milfd., by w. Lydia, had, i. Lydia, Feb. 2, 1770 ; n. Mercy, 
Sep. 22, '73 ; in. Mary, Oct. 4, '76 ; iv. Olive, Mar. 14, '80 ; 

Jonas,'? of Mil, by w. Olive, bad John, Apl. 28, 1785 ; 

Benj., ? of do., by w. Patience, had Patience, Oct. 26, 1774. 

1 . Joseph UnderWOOd, of Hing., 1637, of Reading and Watertown,1645, 
was admitted to the freeman's oath, 1645. His first w. Mary, d. 13 (12,) 
1658. Hem. 2d, Mary How, at Dorch., 29, (2), 1665, who wasdism. from 



252 WAIGHT, 

the chh. in D. to the chh. in TV., 1666. He d. at TV., 16, (12), 1676, a. 
62. lie was probably the father of I. Tho., of Dorchester, and of TV., 1690-1, 
whose children s. in Lex. ; n. Joseph, of TV., who was admitted to the chh-. 

Dec. 5, 1686, took the freeman's oath Apl. 18, 1690, m. Elizabeth -,' 

who was received to the chh. 1687. They had at TV., [see Barre & Bond] 
3. i. John, Mar. 6, 1676-7 ; n. Elizabeth, May 8, '79 ; 

in. Joseph, May 28, '81 ; 
6. 5. iv. Joshua, Lt., 28, (11), '82, d. Sep. 2, 1727; v. Sarah, Feb. 9, 
'87; vi. Hanh., bap. Apl. 13, '90, m. Daniel Richardson, at S., 1709. 

.5 6. Joshua, Lt., m. Mercy Fairbanks Jan. 13, 1707-8, dg. of Eleazer F., of S., 
2d, Hannah TVheelock, Feb. 16, '37-8. He purchased part of Hopper's 
farm in H., in 1712, and s. on the TV. side of Chicken Brook about 1 m. S. 
W. of the common in H., drew land in Doug., 1715, was rated, 1721, 
amono; the 8 highest, and d. Sep. 2, 1727. He had at S., I. Mercy, Apl. 
3, 1709, m. Eli Jones, '29; n. Jona., Nov. 4, '11, m. Priscilla Bailla, '40 ; 
in. Joshua, Sep. 22, '14, d. July 17, '31 ; 
10. 8. iv. Joseph, Nov. 21, '10, d. June 7, '59; v. Thankful, Feb. 8, '19, m. 
John Hill, June 4, '44 ; vi. David, May 18, '21, d. July 7, '42 ; 
vn. Mary, Feb. 2, '22-3, m. Eleazer Robbins, Jan. 26, '43-4. 

8. 10. Joseph inherited the homestead, m. Jemima Leland, dg. of Dea. Timothy 
L., and had at H., i. Reuben, Jan. 17, 1740-1, m. Abigail Burbank, May 
20, '62, and had Thankful, Feb. 19, '96 ; n. David, Nov. 24, '42, m. 
Bathsheba Adams, Nov. 10, '63, and s. in Barre ; in. Elizabeth, Oct. 20, 
'46, m. Bridges, of H. ; iv. Timothy, Dec. 18, '48, tn. and. s. in Hubbard- 
ston, had i. Isaac, of Jamaica, Vt. ; n. Asa ; 
17. 14. v. Joshua, Nov. 21, '44, d. Mar. 15, 1821 ; vi. Joseph, Jan. 31, '54, 
d. Aug. 31, '56 ; vn. Millicent, Sep. 18, '56, d. Sep. 18, '56 ; 

15. vni. Asa, July 26, '57, m. Mary Kilton, Feb. 29, '83, s. at TVardsbury, 
Vt., and had Asa, July 27, '86, of Newfane ; 

16. ix. Joseph, June 5, '59, s. at TVardsbury, Vt. 

14. 17. Joshua inherited the homestead, was a member of the chh. in H., and by 
trade a tanner, m. Lydia Eames, noted for benevolence, dg. of Daniel E., of 
H., by w. Silence Leland, who inherited insanity from her mother, who 
inherited it from her mother, born 1683. They had, i. Silence, Oct. 7, 
1766, m. Aaron Pond, of H., 2d, John Claflin, of H. ; n. Lydia, Jan. 8, 
'68, m. TVm. Mellen, 2d, Win. Unthank, 3d, Ebenr. Sumner; in. Daniel, # 
Jan. 28, '70, m. Susan Bowker, 2d, Mille Bowker, r. Hopk. ; iv. Jemima, 
Oct. 22, '72, m. Levi Fisk, of H., '91 ; v. Anna, Oct. 25, '74, m. TVm. 
Claflin, May 18, '94 ; vi. Joshua, Mar. 14, '77, r. New York ; 
vn. Joseph, Doct, May 9, '80, m. Sylvia Chapin, Apl. 22, 1801, at Mend. ; 
and s. at Belfast, Me.; vni. Noah, Mar. 4, '82, m. Sophronia Bragg, 1704, 
r. N.york ; ix. Betsey, Mar. 4, '84, m. Timothy Mellen, 1802 ; 
x. Clarissa, Mar. 13, '86, in. Ichabod Hawes, from Frank. ; 
xi. Shem, July 2, '89, d. yg. ; 
xn. Chloe, May 22, '91, m. TVm. Drake, of Mend., 1812. 

Reuben Underwood ? w. Mercy , had Lucinda, Mar. 25, '94, at H. 

Ezekiel Waight, w. Rebecca, had in H., i. Tho., July 29, 1753 ; 
ii. Thaddeus, May 26, '55 ; in. Silas, July 12, '58. 

Mercy TVaight, m. Daniel Claflin, Nov. 22, 1750. 



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Geo. Wair, m. Lucy Littlefield, bad in H., i. Sally, June 22, 1791 ; 
ir. Wm, Aug. 10, '95 ; tii. Lucy, Sep. 28, '97 ; IV. Geo. S., Nov. 11 , '99. 

Wm. Wait, w. Abigail, bad in S., i. Gersbom ; n. Jason ; 
in. Sarab ; iv. Hepsebath, Nov. 25, 1707 ; v. Rebecca, June 29, '09 ; 
vi. Abiel, Nov. 18, '11 ; vn. Betsey, Aug. 31, '14. 
1 «i» i 

1. Solomon Walker, w. Sarab , bad Josepb, Dec. 26, 1760, at S. 

2. Timothy Walker, Dea., son of Comfort "W., from Rehoboth. to Med., came 
from Med. to Hoi., 1850, built at his own expense on the S. side of Jasper 
Hill, Mt. Hollis Academy, in which instruction in the classics and higher 
branches of English, have been given by accomplished instructors to the 
present time. Mr. Elbridge J. Cutler, a grad. of Harv. U., is now Princ. 
Mr. W. m. Louisa Turner, dg. of Col. Amos T., of Med., and grd. dg. 
of Amos T., and gr. grd. dg. of Amos T., Esq., of Hanover, representative, 
1720, '27, '28, '32, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of John T., of Scituate, by wife 
Mary Brewster, dg. of Jona. B., and grd. dg. of Elder Brewster of Plym., 
and gr. gr. gr. grd. dg. of Humphrey Turner, who arrived at Plym, 1628, 
s. at Scituate, erected a tannery, and was much employed in public affairs. 
They have i. Geo. Fred., A. M., b. May 31, 1825, m. Amelia E. Bullard, 
rs. a teacher at Auburndale ; n. Louisa A., b. Apl. 21, '34. 



1. John WalliS, w. Mary , had at S., I. John, Dec. 20, 1717 ; 

ii. Nathaniel, Oct. 12, '21 ; in. Benj., Dec. 15, '23 ; iv. Rachel, Apl. 10, 
'34, at Hoi. ; 



5. Nathaniel Wallis, w. Abigail, had in S., i. Abigail, Nov. 21, 1724 ; 
ii. Lydia, Jan. 25, '27-8 ; in. Daniel, Nov. 28, '30. 



Joseph Ware, Cpt., b. Jan. 2, 1681-2, s. of John W., of Wrenth., 

by w. Joanna , and grd. s. of Robert W., of Decl., m. Jan. 5, 1708, 

Hannah Wood, b. Feb. 11, 1688, dg. of Eleazer W., by w. Dorotha Bab- 
cock, ? from Milton, and grd. dg. of Nicholas W., by w. Mary, pr. Williams, 
from Roxb., and through her succeeded to the inheritance of *!ie E. half of 
the ancient Wood farm, now owned and occupied by Maj. John Goulding, a 
descendant. Capt. W. was an able, enterprising man, and much respected 
citizen. He served as cornet of horse in an expedition against the Indians, 
and was selectman 11 years. About 1710, he, in company with Cpt. Joseph 
Morse, built the first grist mill on Se well's brook, and bis slave, Duty, being 
a better miller than Capt. M. could supply, secured him all the custom, and 
induced my ancestor to sell out, and the privilege has remained to this day 
in the family of Capt. W. The ancient Hull farm having descended through 
Hull's only dg., Mrs. Judge Sewell, to her dg. Judith, the wife of Rev. Dr. 

Cooper, of Boston, Capt. W. in 1734-5, purchased of them, for ■, the 

the S. E. half of the same, consisting of 250 acres, Richard Sanger purchas- 
ing at the same time, for an equal sum, the N. W. half. Capt. W. proceeded 
immediately, it is believed, to ei*ect the venerable mansion yet standing on 
the N. bank of Sewell's Brook, upon the W. side of the road to E. Med., 
known from a magnificent Elm, planted about the same time by his slave, 
Duty, moved into it and there spent the remainder of bis days. His remains 
were interred in the desecrated burying-ground at the S end of S., where his 
elegant headstone may be found lying in the vicinity of his grave, if not yet 
thrown into Charles R. He had, i. Hannah, 2\ug. 10, 1710 ; 



254 W A E E . 

ii. Zipporah, Nov. 22, '12, m. Curtis Goulding; in. Abigail, Apl. 27, '15 ; 

5. 2. iv. John, May 26, '17, m. Martha Prentiss; v. Eleazer, Nov. 3, '19; 

vi. Abigail, Jan. 7, '22--3, m. Nathaniel Prentiss, who s. upon the S. quarter 

of the Hull farm ; vn. Joseph, Aug. 3, '25, pr. d. yg. ; 

viii. Benj., Apl. 18, '30, d. about 1754, m. Mary Cooledge, had no issue. 

2. 5. John inherited the N. half of the homestead, § m. S. of S. Common, was 
selectman, 1758, had by w. Martha Printiss, who d. Apl. 20, 1805, a 81, 
i. Martha, May 7, 1744, d. yg. ; n. Elizabeth, Aug. 22, '46, m. Peter 
Bullard, 'Go ; in. Mary, Dec. 5, '48, m. Jona. Holbrook, Dec. 20, 70 ; 
9. 6. iv. Joseph, Esq., Apl. 30, '51, m. Grace Cooledge; 
14. 7. v. John, July 4, '53, m. Hannah Leland ; 

vi. Martha, June 6, '56, m. Joel Cooledge, Oct. 11, '81 ; 
18. 8. vn. Benj., Jan. 8, '59, d. Feb. 2, 1814, m. Mehetabel Leland ; 
viii. Persis, Aug. 12, '61, m. Wm. Adams, Jan. 1, '80 ; 
ix. Henry, Rev., D. D., Apl. 1, '64, m. Mary Clark; 
x. Uriah, Jan. 12, '69, a clothier, m. Sarah Babcock, Nov. 25, '90, had, 
Otis and Mira, rm. to Newton and next to Barre. 

6. 9. Joseph, Esq., enlisted in the army of the Revolution, lost an arm in the 

battle at White Plains, but became an able surveyor and instructor of youth. 
He inherited the homestead ; was appointed a magistrate, served the town in 
various offices, but could never be induced to represent her in the Gr. C. 
He was a gent, of great intelligence, personal dignity, and moral worth, and 
ought to be long and gratefully remembered as one of the most exemplary 
and useful citizens whom S. has ever had. He m. Grace Cooledge, and had, 
i. Betsey, Dec. 7, 1777, m. John Mason, of Shrewsburv ; 
23. 10. ii. Alpheus, Col., Mar. 23, '81, m. Polly Sanger; 

in. Asher, Hon., LL.D., Feb. 10, '82, formerly a Prof, in Harv. Univ., 

now a Judge of U. S. Dis. Court, rs. at Portland, Me. ; 

iv. Patty, Apl. 21, '87, m. Horatio Gardner ; 

v. Henry, Feb. 15, '89, d. about 1814, m. Irene Death, Jan. 11, 1810, had, 

I. Martha, (d.), m. Dalton Goulding, Esq. ; n. Albert, P., who owns 

the homestead ; in. Henry, d. yg. 

7. 14. John m. Sep. 28, 1775, Hannah Leland, who was b. May 17, '57, and d. 

in childbed, Mar. 1, '90, and 2d, Zeruiah Brown, Dec. 13, '90, r. S. and 
Newton, had, i. Sylvia, Jan. 22, 1776, m. Doct, Starr, of Newton ; 
ii. Walter, Sep. 28, '77, rm. to Canada ; m. Orland, Aug. 29, '79, rs. Deerf'd. 
iv. Sophia, Aug. 13, '81, r. unm. Bos. ; v. Eleanor, June 28, '83, d. 

1852, m. Small, r. Newton ; vi. Elbridge, Aug. 14, '85, was clerk in 

Epis. chh. at N. and rm. N. J. ; vn. Pamelia, Jan. 22, '88, r. Deerfield; 
viii. Gabriel, Mar. 1, '90, d. at her birth with her mother; 
ix. Harriet, July 30, '91 ; x. Emily, Feb. 23, '94, at Newton. 

8. 18. Benj., Capt., w. Mehetabel Leland, b. Mar. 11, 1759, m. Dec, '78, d. 

July 20, 1846, had i. Caroline, Jan. 15, '82, d. June 21, 1806, unm. ; 
ii. Polly, Feb. 7, '84, m. Lemuel Leland, senr. ; in. China, July 30, '86, 
d. Oct. 6, 1838, m. Moses Bullen ; iv. Dan., Sep. 11, '88, d. 1816, unm., 
at Louisville, Ky. ; v. Eleazer, Nov. 2, '91, m. Lucy Breck, b. July 30. 
'97, r. S., and inherits the water-power where his gr. grd. father, Joseph, 
built the first mill on Sewell's Br., had, i. Caroline, 1820; n. Vorestus, 
Apl. 27, '22, ra. Mary Butler, (see Butler;) in. Benj., Jan. 24, '24, 
m. Elizabeth Capen ; iv. Samuel L., June 21, '30; 
v. Lucy D., June 15, '33. 



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10. 23. Alpheus, Col., inherited the talents of his ancestors, served as 
selectman, 1820-1, m. Polly Sanger, 1798, who d. Sep. 10, 1810, and 2d, 
Nancy Sanger, had, i. Betsey, Jan. 10, '99; n. Orlando, who r at Wor- 
cester ; in. Charles, who rm. to Con. ; iv. John, who m. Mary Wentworth, 
dg. of Isaac W. from Canton, rs. on the E. part of the ancient Breck Farm, 

has Ann Maria and Mary Elizabeth ; 
v. Joseph ; vi. Dana. 

Wm. Warren, had bap. at S. Sep. 29, 1793, had, i. Wm. ; n. Nabby ; 
in. Benj. ; iv. Polly; v. Joseph. 

1. Andrew WatkinS, of Boxb., had bap., 1686-88, i. Andrew; 

ii. Peter ; in. Samuel ; IV. Elizabeth ; v. Mary ; VI. Sarah ; vn. Abigail. 

2. Andrew W., pr. of the same race, w. Mary, had i. Andrew, b. Mar. 5, 
1706, at Needh. 

3. Andrew W., pr. gr. grd. son of the 1st And., was killed by falling from a 
load of hay, July 26, 1805, a. 68 yrs. 4 mos. and 16 days, m. Thankful 
Morse, and s. in W. part of H., nest to Hopk., had, 

i. Sarah, Aug. 6, 1757, m. Elisha Adams, of Hopk. ; n. Henry, Mar. 22, 
'60, d. Dec. 13, '72 ; in. John, d. yg. ; iv. Stephen, Mar. 23, '62, d. 
Dec. '72 ; v. Chloe, '64, d. Dec. '72 ; vi. Aaron, Oct. 5, '65, d. Nov. 20, 
'72 ; vii. Moses, d. Nov. 28, '72 ; vra. Daniel, Oct. 25, '66, d. July 10, 
'67 ; ix. Thankful, d. Sep. 14, '75 ; 

x. Elijah, July 18, '76, m. Polly Badger, b. in Natick, Feb. 14, '72, in- 
herited the homestead, and had, 

Nancy, d. yg., Emilia, Miranda, Nathan, d. 184:1, Andreiv, m. Chloe 
Wilcox, rs. at Sandisfield, had, Geo. E., June 13, 1832, rs. in H. ; 
Jane, m. Wm. Perham, rs. Hopk. ; Mary E., Sarah B., Chs. S. ; 

xi. Henry, d. Sep. 20, '75 ; xn. Ede, b. Jan. 20, '81, m. Claflin, of 

Hopk. ; xin. Mille, Nov. 25, '83, m. Aaron Bockwood, and d. Aug. 20, 
1841. 



Jacob Wenzel, w. Sibble , had, at H., i. Louisa, Apl. 20, '87 ; 

ii. Seneca, Jan. 22, '99. 



JosephuS Wheaton, Bev., b. Mar. 16, 1788, s. of Joseph W., Esq., of 

Behoboth, a descendant fr. Bev. W., the 2d pastor of the Bap. chh. of 

Swansey, " early evinced a strong thirst for knowledge," and by his own 
energy and perseverance, obtained a thorough education. Hegrad. with distinguished 
honor, in 1812, at B. U., where he continued his residence, studied theology, and at 
the same time, had charge of the Acad, connected with the Univ., was tutor in the 
same, 1813-15 ; licensed, 1814 ; ordainea pastor at H., Dec. 6, 1815 ; and d. of a 
consumption, Feb. 4, 1825. He was by nature, a most amiable man, endowed with 
fine sensibilities, rare sagacity and self-control. He penetrated into the arcana of 
whatever he made his study, and could communicate his knowledge with readiness 
and propriety. As a tutor, he excelled in gaining the esteem of undergraduates, and 
in rendering them thorough in their studies, and circumspect in their deportment ; 
and had he chosen the profession of a teacher, few of his* cotemporaries could have 
excelled him at the head .of a college. But this was to him a secondary calling. 
From the date of brightened hopes in the pardoning mercy of God, his heart and 
understanding were fixed upon preaching the Gospel as the highest pursuit in which 



256 WHEATON. 

men or angels can engage ; and from that time he devoted all his energies to become 
a workman that would not need to be ashamed. He had previously pursued a 
variety of studies, having no reputed direct connection with the duties o f the sacred 
office, yet " well calculated " to prevent that hostility to science, which battles not a 
few otherwise valuable men, and " to enlarge his sphere of ministerial usefulness." 
His various attainments, soundness in doctrine and evident consecration — his ap- 
pearance as a speaker, and his plain, yet winning address, fitted him peculiarly to 
harmonize and restrain the then discordant elements of H., and to inculcate and de- 
fend those truths, which alone could ensure permanent peace. For such reasons, II. 
was proposed to him, and he to H. ; and he was engaged to supply the pulpit, be- 
fore he resigned his tutorship. After his settlement, the chh. had rest, and was 
edified. 

" In his intercourse with his people, Mr. Wheaton's wisdom was evangelical ; first 
pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated. His conciliating deportment, 
amiable temper, and dignified, yet unaffected manners, won the affections of those who 
were not always pleased with his theological sentiments ; " which closely resembled 
those of his worthy predecessor, and embraced the peculiarities of Calvinism to which 
the term Hopkinsian is applied by way of designation. He was completely success- 
ful in uniting and harmonizing this people at a time when they were found not a little 
discordant in opinion and feeling • and enjoyed, in an unusual degree, their respect, 
confidence, and affection, from the commencement to the close of his ministerial life. 

" Mr. W. was a student as well as a pastor. What time the more active duties of 
his office would permit, he was with his book and his pen. He excelled in an 
intimate acquaintance with the classics. His literary character, and eminent talents 
as an instructor of youth, made his house a favorite resort of young men fitting for 
college, or perfecting their education." 

" As a preacher, Mr. TV. was, what he principally aimed to be, instructive. Yet 
he was also an animated and animating preacher. His whole soul appeared in his work. 
To be eloquent was not his object ; and yet he was occasionally eloquent to a high 
degree. His style was worthy the man who wrote, and of the important subjects on 
which it was employed. He seemed to think with Addison, that good thoughts ought 
to be well dressed. As it respects the delivery of his discourses, it was natural," 
though uncommonly rapid ; " and his animation, united with the rich materials of his 
sermons, made him a highly acceptable speaker." 

" His piety was ardent ; and humility was a distinguishing feature of it. His trials 
with respect to his own piety, though not without example, were peculiarly severe. 
But his sun was not always overcast ; he hoped in God ; resigned himself with confi- 
dence to his disposal ; and often had joy and peace in believing." [Chris. Magaz.] 

During his ministry the present orthodox chh. was built and consecrated. On the 
latter occasion Mr. TV. delivered a discourse, which was published — "a lasting monu- 
ment of the man and the event." He published several other sermons, a work on 
School Education, and one often referred to, on the Equality of Mankind, and the 
Evils of Slavery. He m. 1st, Mary Ide, Jan., 183 6, who d. Jly , 1817 ; and 2d, 
Abby Fales, and had, i. Francis, grad. B. U., 1840, a lawyer; n. Henry 
Stewart, grad. B. U., 1841, r. a lawyer in Calf. ; in. Mary; iv. Louisa. 

1. David Wheaton, w. Susanna, had in H., i. David, Dec. 1, 1731 : 
G. 3. 




3. G. Daniel, w. Unity, had, in H., i. Abigail, Aug. 13, '61 ; n. Daniel, May 
12, 1763; in. Amos, Jan. 16, '66, by w. Emily. 



WHEELOCK, WHITE, WHITING, WHITNEY.' 257 

1. ThO. Wheelock, w. Hannah, had in H., i. Henry, Aug. 8, 1771 ; 
ii. Moses, Mar. 8, '70. 



3. Jc )h Wheelock, had by w. Sarah, at S., i. Cyrus, Mar. 29, 1776; 
H. Sally, Oct. 17, '78, d Nov. 19. 1802 j in. Ebenezer, Feb. 2, '81 ; 
iv. Thankful, Aug. 23, '82. 



1. David White, w. Abigail, had in S., i. David, Sep. 16, 1731 ; 
ii. Sarah, Mar. 16, '33-4 ; m. Peter, July 28, '35 ; 
iv. Abigail, Feb. 10, '38-9. 

4. Stephen White, w. Mary, had in H., Mary, Mar. 17, 1763. 



1. Josiah Whiting, w. Abigail , from Ded. to S., and rm. to Barre, 

had in S., i. Amos, Nov. 16, 1761 ; n. Abigail, Oct. 11, '63 ; 
in. Martha, Jan. 11, 'G6; iv. Josiah, July 25, '70, rm. to Barre. 

4. Jason Whiting, br. to Josiah above, w. Deborah , had in S., 

I. Molle, Aug. 2, 17 G7, and rm. to Barre. 

5. Samuel Whiting, br. to Jason, w. Deliverance , had in S., 

7. 6. i. David, d.1807, a. 55; ii. Abigail, m. James Curtis; in. Sam'l, d. um. 



6. 7. David Whiting, m. Anna Bullard, and had at H., i. Nathan, July 28, 
1774, d. 1819, m. Meletiah Partridge, fr. Med., and s. on the farm formerly 
Col. Perry's, in H. ; n. Rhoda, June 14, '76; in. Ede, Jan. 14, '78, m. 
Wm. Heminway, of Leverett ; iv. Anna, Oct. 17, '79, m. John Eames, of 
Ashland; v. Sarah, Mar. 16, '81, d. unm. ; vi. Asa, Col., Nov. 3, '82, 
m. Clarissa Hill, dg. of Tim. H., 2d, Cynthia, (Sawyer) Wheelock, r. H. ; 
vn. Elihu. Sep. 27, '81, m. Mille Rockwood, r. Barre ; vnr ' aniel, June 13, 
'86, m. Sally Bridges, dg. of Hachaliah B., of H. ; ix. Amos, Mar. 2, '88, gd. 
B.Univ., 1812, d. '38, at Port Gibson, Miss , a lawyer, had Charles William, 
A. M. ; x. Betsey, Dec. 28, '89, (d.) m. Eli Phipps, of H. ; xi. Martin, Nov. 
4, '91, Har. U., 1814, d. 1823, at Natches, unm., a lawyer; 
xn. Joanna, Dec. 20, '94, d. unm. a. 21. 

13- Nathan Whiting ? w. Miriam , had, i. Nathan, June 19, 1794, at H. ; 

n. Miriam, Nov. 4, '86. 



15. Phineas Whiting,? had, at S., i. Betty, bp. June 3, 1781 ; 
ii. Ebenezer, bp. do. ; in. Micajah, bp. do. 



1- John Whitney, w. Elinor, according to Dr. Bond, embarked at Ips- 
wich, 1635, a. 35, s. at Watertown and became a prominent citizen. He had, 
3. 2. i. Jona., b. in England, 1631 ; n. Benjamin, b. June 6, 1613, m. Jane 

, s. first at Saco, 2d at Watertown, and 3d at S., where his w. d. Nov. 

14, 1690. As Benj., senr., he drew land at Doug., 1715. 

2. 3. Jonathan m. Lydia Jones, Oct. 30, 1656, s. first in Watertown, where all 
his children are recorded, and where he sold his property for a considerable 
sum, and ab. 1678 or 9, came to S., built his house, 1678 or early in '79, on 
the spot where Capt. Paul rs., and this pr. by agreement with the proprietors 
before the lot was legally assigned him. He had a home lot of 30 acres, includ- 
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ingthe Rocky Hill N. of bis house, and lying on both sides of the main road ; 
also, 24 acres more in three other lots. He d. about 1702. He had, 
i. Lydia, July 3, 1657, d. 1719, m. Moses Adams, of S. 

8. 4. ii. Jona., Oct. 20, '58; in. Anna, Apl. 28, 'CO, m. Cornelius Fisher. 

9. 5. iv. John, June 27, '62; v. Josiah, Way 19, '64 ; vi. Elinor, Oct. 12, 

'60, d. Nov. 23, '78 ; vn. James, Nov. 28, '68, d. Nov. 30, '90 ; 
vin. Isaac, Jan. 12, '70-1, d. Dec. 2, '90 ; 
24. 6. ix. Joseph, Mar. 10, '72-3 ; x. Abigail, Aug. 18, '75 ; 
7. xi. Benj., Jan. 6, '78-9, d. 1718. 

4. 8. Jona., m. Sarah pr. Hapgood, s. on lands assigned to his father near Chest- 

nut Brook, and rm. to W. He had at S., i. Sarah, Mar. 2, 1692-3 ; 
ii. Jona., Sep. 27, '94, d. yg. ; m. Tabitha, Aug. 22, '96. 

5. 9. John, m. Mary Hapgood, fr. W., dg. of Shadreck H., 2d, Sarah , 

3d, Martha Walker, 1718, inherited the homestead in S., and had, 
i. Mary, Mar. 27, 1689, m. Daniel Moore, 1709 ; 
ii. Elizabeth, Jan. 29, '90, m. Jona. Willard. 
11. 10. m. James, Dea., Dec. 28, '92, " d. Apl. 10, 1770, a. 77;" 
vi. Lydia, Apl. 18, '96, m. Richard Haven, 1713-14; 
v. Hannah, Sep. 27, '97, m. Ezekail Rice, 1722-3. 

10. 11. James, Dea., inherited, ab. 1727, the homestead at Edward West's 
Plain, m. Martha Rice, and 2d, Elizabeth (Holhrook) Twitchell, (the wid. os 
Joseph T , of S., and the mother of Joseph T., Esq.,) 1696, d. Mar. 31, 
1782, a. 85. He had, i John, Apl. 10, 1716, m. Abigail Perry, '38-9 ; 

30. 1\\. ii. James, June 4, '18, m. Patience Leland ; in. Mary, May 12, 1720; 
iv. Martha, Nov. 9, '21 ; v. Benj , June 13, '23, d. yg. ; vi. Micha, June 
4, '25, d. June 23, I860, m. Lydia Mason, '47, r. Nat. 

16. 13. vn. Benj., Oct. 23, '27 ; vin. Ezra, Feb. 22, '29-30, m. Mercy Morse, 

r. Doug., had i. Elizabeth, June 29, 1754; 
39. 15. ix. Daniel, Hon., Dec. 13, '33, of 2d w., and d. Apl. 6, 1810, a. 76. 

13. 16. Benj., Dea., m. Esther Leland, b. July 31, 1728, dg. of Joseph L., by w. 
Esther Thurston, and grd. dg. of Hopestill L., by \y. Patience Holbiook, 
and gr. grd. dg. of Henry L., by w. Margaret Babcock, and gr. gr. grd. dg. 
of Hopestill L., s. at W. Sheiborn, where Capt. Curtis Golding rs. He had, 

19. 17. i. James, b. Oct. 21, 1755, m. Susanna Hill, 1780; 

18. ii. Joseph, b. 1762, inherited the homestead which he sold to Eleazer 
Goulding,m. Sally Parks, fr.Fram., and rm. to Gardner, had i. Joseph Park; 
ii. Geo. ; in. Chs. ; iv. Samuel ; v. Ann P., all bp. at S., 1800-9. 

17. 19. James received from his grd. father Leland, in 1779, a deed of half his 

farm, situated partly in Holl., and upon which occurs a valuable quarry of 
sienite, and upon which the towns of S., Holl. and Ashland corner. In 
1785, he received from the same hand another deed. He r. where Tim. 
Twitchell rs., but sold this farm to Wm. Adams, and d. at Dover. He had, 
23. 20. i. Isaac, Col. and Esq., Sep. 6, 17S3, m. Mary More, and 2d 5> Sally 

Thayer; n. Benj., who m. More, and s. in N. Y. ; in. Martin, m. 

and s. in Attleboro' ; iv. Sylvia, d. unm. ; v. Patty, d. unm. 

20. 23. Isaac, Col., inherited the homestead of his father, was esteemed a man of 

strong mind and an able military officer. He was long a leading citizen of the 
Town. He m. 1st, Mary More, and 2d, Sally Thayer, (still hving) dg. of 



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Elijili T., of Mil ford, by w. Sarah Robinson, the dg. of Samuel R., pr. a 
descendant of Elder John Robinson, of the Pilgrim Chh. He had, 
i. Susan, m. Chs. Bonney ; n. Martha, m. Moses Stratton; 
in. Mary, May 7, 1812, m. Ebenr. Babcock ; iv. Jane, Apl. 9, 1816, m. 
' James N. Hill ; v. Warren, b. June 15, 18 10, m. Ann E. Watson, b. Feb. 
2, '23, and had Abhy, Apl. 11, '46, r. Homestead ; IV. James R., Feb. 24, 
'21, m. Almira Cleale ; vir. Amanda; VIII. Sally Ann. 

6. 24. Joseph, m. Rebecca, r. S., had, i. Jonas, June 7, 1708 ; II. Joseph, Mar. 
22, '10; ill. Sylvanus, Feb. 22, '11-12; vi. James, Mar. 22, '14; 
v. Ephraim, Mar. 11, '15-1G, r. Natick ; 

11^. 30. James, m. Patience Leland, s. at W. Sherborn, at the junction of the 

roads to Ashland and the W., and had, 
33. 31. I.John, Mar. 10, 1742--3, m. Hannah Holbrook ; II. Joseph, May 7, 

1745; ill. Martha, Aug. 16, '47 ; iv. Abigail, Dec. 11, '49. 



31. 33. John, 1st w. "Molly" , 2d w. Hannah Holbrook, dg. of Nath'l 

H., inherited the homestead at W. Sh., and had, i. Hannah, Sep. 3, 1768, 

m. Henry Pratt; n. Nathaniel, July 12, '72, m. Eames, fr. Fram., r. 

N. Y.; in. John, bp. '72-81, m. Clarissa Slack, r. Boston. 

38. 30. iv. James, bp. '72-81, m. Lois Blodget, fr. N. Y. ; 

v. Ezra, bp. '72-81, s. at Medibemps, Me. ; VI. Patty, bp. "72-81, pr. d. yg. 

3G. 38. James, s. on the homestead, but built with his father the house now occu- 
pied by Mr Lyman W., and had, i. Louisa, m. Cyrus Daniels, of Med. ; 
II. Phebe, m. Partridge Hill; 2d, Jacob Pratt, of S. ; III. Ljman, m. Mary 
Leland, and inherits the homestead ; iv. Sylvester, m. Fanny Sanger, r. W. 
Sherborn ; v. Lois, m. Augustus Leland ; vi. Elmira, m Harrison G. O. 
Hooker, of S. ; vir. James, m. Mary Ann Clark; viii. Vespatian, d. yg. ; 
ix. Caroline, m. James Wight of Newton; x. Abigail, d. yg. 

15. 39. Daniel, Hon., was a strong-minded, facetious and patriotic citizen. He was 
early and long in public life, and during the revolutionary struggle, an efficient 
instrument in arousing and directing; the energies of his fellow-citizens. He 
was a member of the Provincial Congress, 1775, rep. '76 ; member of the 
convention to form the State Constitution, '80, and of that which adopted 
the Federal Constitution, in '88 ; and between 17il and '09, he represented 
S. 14 years in the G. C, and was several sessions a member of the Senate, 
and repeatedly of the Executive Council. As a magistrate, he was much 
valued, and he passed away amidst the regrets of an extended acquaintance. 
The following inscription on his gravestone should be exempt from the sar- 
casm, "Here lie the dead, and here the living lie." 

" Stranger, tread lightly on the remains of one such as thou ought to be, true 
to his conscience and country." He m Miriam Leland, June 11, 1761, 
dg. of Daniel L., by w. Mary Death, inherited the ancient homestead on 
Edward's Plain, and had, i. Amos, a mercht. in Boston, d. without issue ; 

ir. Daniel, m. White, fr. Newport, R. I., and bad, i. Daniel, rm. South ; 

ii. Amos, d. in New York ; in. Win. S. (d.) ; 
in. Aaron, Feb. 0, 1772, d. Nov. 20, 1810, m. Edie Fisk, Apl. 30, '04, 
who d. Sep. 1, 1848. He had at S., i. John, Jan. 21, '05, d. a. 21 ; 

n. Mary, July 24, 1801, m. Moses Stratton, of S. ; in. Elizabeth, July 
16, '03, d. Aug. 24, '24; iv. Daniel, July 26, '05, d. Aug. 10, '44, 
m. Hanh. (Smith) Rcaud, and had Mary E. m. Robert F. Berwick of 
New York : 



260 WIGHT, WILLIAMS, WILSON, WINSIIIP, WISWALL. 

v. Aaron, Sep. 15, '09, rs. Natiek has a family ; vi. Miriam L., Nov. 

8, '11, r. S. ; vii. Sarah H., July 9, '13, m. Emlyn Sparahawk ; 

vni. John F., Feb. 20, '16, d. 1816 ; 
iv. Elizabeth, m. Dea. Win. Clark, of S. ; 
v. Mary, m. John Billiard, Esq., of S. 

The following occur on S. and Holl. records, supposed to be the descendants 
of Benjamin Whitney, No 2, but incapable of being traced by our records. 

47. Benj? w. Hester, hail Benj., May 22, 1709, at S was innholder and drew 
lands in Douglas, 1715, but disappeared before 1730. 

48. Eleazer,? had Daniel, Feb. 27, 1704--5, at S. ; 

49. Jona.,? w. Susanna, had, at S., i. Susanna, Jan. 20, 1702-3; 

n. Jona., Oct. 17, 1704; in. Keziah, July 31, '06; iv. Dorotha, 
Aug. 28, '08 ; v. Mary, May 28, '10 ; vi Lydia, Mar. 3, '11-12 ; 
vn. Jesse, Feb. 8, '14 ; vni. Hanh., Feb. 11, '14-15 ; ix. Elias, 
Nov. 14, '1G ; x. Mehit., Dec. 27, '18; xi. Geo., '21 ; 

50. Geo.,? w. Sarah Cozzens, had, i. Isaac, Sep. 7, 1746; n. Hanh., Apl. 12, 

'48 ; in. Mercy, Dec. 22, '49 ; iv. Sarah, Nov. 30, '52, at H. ; 

51. Elias,? w. Elizth., had i. Abigail, Mar. 19, 1747 ; II. Elias, June 15, '50 ; 

in. Ann Allen, June 1, '53, at H. ; 

52. Isaac,? w. Lydia, had Lydia, May 4, '52, at Holl ; 

53. Samuel,? w. Deliverance, had Samuel, Nov. 21, '65; 

54. Isaac Whitney,? w. Mary , had at II., i. Sarah, Sep. 12, 1773 ; 

ii. Isaac, Aug. 12, '75. 

55. Simeon had Betsey, bp. '95, at S. 



1. JaiUGS Wight, an active and useful citizen, long leader of the Choir 
in H., had, i. James, r. II. ; n. Warren, Aug. 13, 1794, r. II. 

4. Nahum Wight w. Hannah, had, Hanh., July 27, 1772, at S. 

5. Joel Wight, had, I. Hannah, Mar. 11, 17G9, at Dublin; 
ii. Ephraim, May 20, '71, at S. ; ill. Eli, May 6, '73. 



Samuel Williams, m. Abigail Godard, who d. Mar. 6, 1716-17 ; 2d, Abig'l 
Wood, Feb. 4, '19-20, bad at S., i. Eleazer Wood, Jan. 5, 1720-1; 
n. Dorotha, July 8, '22, and rm. to Marlboro'. 



John Wilson, Doct., w. Mary , had at S., i. Elizabeth, July 25, 1740; 

ii. Alice, Aug. 4, '42, d. Nov. 7, 1805, m. Samuel Twitchell, Esq., of Dub. ; 
in. Sarah, Feb. 8, '44-5 ; iv. John, Nov. 14, '47 ; 
v. Hannah, June 2, '53. 



Nathaniel Winship, w. Mercy, had in H., i. Amos, Aug. 10, 1745 ; 
ii. Mary, Nov. 24, '47, d. yg. ; in. Nath'l, d Dec. 27, '53; 
iv. Mercy, b. Apl. 26, '54, at S. 



Jona. WiSWall, m. Mary Daniels, July 5, 1764, had in H., i. David, Mar. 3, 

1765, m. Mary , and had, i. Moses C, June 30, '94 ; 

ii. Lowell, Oct. 8, '95 ; in. David, Oct. 27, '98 ; 



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ii. Margery, Sep. 11, '66; in. Sabery, Jan. 23, '71 ; iv. Betty, Aug. 10,72 ; 
v. Sally, Aug. 7, '74; vi. Mary, Aug. 12, '76. 

3. Jona. Wiswell, w. Polly , had, Margery, Dec. 2G, '97, at H. 

Nicholas Wood. In the early forest of Woods in New England, appeared 

1. Nicholas, of Concord, where he had Abigail, 10 (2), 1642 ; 

2. Nicholas, of Dorchester, in 1G40, who, in company with And- Pitcher, 
took the freeman's oath, June 2, 1641, and for a series of years occupied as tenant, 
the extensive farm of Hon. John Glover, in what is now Milton. 

Here a gross insult was offered to his wife by an Indian, from about Providence, 
which the Government noticed, by sending to Meantanomo, Sep. 8, 1642, a demand 
that the offender should be sent to them to be punished, " not with death, but some 
other punishment." 

The Sachems, Sacanonoco, of Pawtuxet, and Pumhom of Shawomock (now 
Warwick, 11. 1.) having, on 22 (4mo.) 1643, formally placed themselves and country 
under the jurisdiction of Mass., Nicholas Wood, with Henry Adams, senr., of Brain- 
tree, Henry Adams, junr., and Tho. Samuel, John and Christopher Adams, and 
above twenty others, were induced to petition the General Court, who, Oct. 1, 1645, 
granted them 10,000 acres West of Narragansett Bay, to be " set out for their 
town," and resolved that the number of 7 actual settlers should have power to admit 
or keep out whom they should think' good ; that the General Court should write 
letters to Benedict Arnold to compound with Pumhom at the easiest rate he could, 
for his right in any improved ground ; and that the petitioners should dispose of the 
houses built upon said ground [by the persecuted Gortonites], and pay to such as built 
them, what the Court shall hereafter appoint, adding for their encouragement, " if 
they shall see cause so to do." [Col. Rec. and Drake's Book of Indians.] 

The iniquity of this enterprise, which no doubt originated with the intolerant and 
grasping Winthrop & Co., was probably discovered, and voluntarily relinquished; or 
the prior sale of Shawomock, by Miantonomo to the Earl of Warwick, and by the 
Earl to Rev. Samuel Gorton and associates, compelled the Government to revoke 
their grant, and yield to Gorton his prior rights ; for neither Nicholas W. nor his 
associate grantees ever took permanent possession ; nor does it appear that they ever 
received indemnification for the relinquishment of the grant. 

On 8 (omo.) 1652, Nicholas W., with Tho. Holbrook and Andrew Pitcher, all 
of D., received of Richard Parker, of Boston, a deed for 535 acres of meadow and 
upland, "lying in the woods on the W. side of Charles River, 3 ms. from Natick, 
lying between the land of Capt. Robert Kayne on the S. side, and Mr. Richard 
Browne, of Watertown, in some part on the S. side, also ; by Charles R. on the E., 
[and a rocky point, now called the neck, running into the R.] ; and by common 
woods on the W." 

This tract now includes most of the farms of Mj. John Goulding, Jona. Holbrook, 
Martin Barbour, Walter Barbour, David Daniels, Joseph and Jedh. Leland, Dexter 
Amsden, and Charles How. It seems probable that Goodman Wood had taken pos- 
session, and made improvements prior to the date of this deed, for an act of the Gen. 
Court, passed three weeks after, directing the laying out of Natick, ordered the 
Eastern line to be extended up the river as far as his house ; and he had a child, b. 
pr. at Milton, recorded at Medfield, the nearest incorporated town, as early as Jan. 
3, 1651. He erected his house 13 rods S. of Holbrook's mills, where the road now 
runs, and founded it upon a rock ; as if he would say to succeeding generations of the 
town he first planted, build upon the rock of ages. He seems to have been a very 
responsible and enterprising man. He signed the first petition for the incorporation 
of S.; was a member of the chh., and for his day, possessed of a lart'e property. 
He left no male posterity, who perpetuated his name, but his blood has mingled 



262 wood. 

extensively with families of other names ; and from him have descended many orna- 
ments of literature, science and religion. His grave, marked by a mound, more than 
that of any other founder of S., merits an imperishable monument. 

WILL OF NICHOLAS WOOD. 

In the year of our Lord, 1669, on the 16th day of January, I, Nicholas Wood, 
living at my farme in Natick Bounds, having been for some considerable time under 
the afflicting hand of God, and thereby very weak and low in body, but of perfect 
remembrance, thanks be to God, and considering that the end of man's life is very 
uncertain, and forasmuch as I am persuaded that it is my duty to provide for death, 
that [ be not unprovided when I shall approach [my Judge] I have thought it good for 
the quiet of my mind, to ordain and make this my last will and testament, in manner 
and form as followeth : — First, I having most and chiefest care of my soule, do 
humbly commend the same into the hands of Almighty God, from whom I first 
received [it], trusting in and through the mercy of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, 
that my said soule, after it be departed out of this my body, shall immediately inherit 
life and glory ; and as for my body, I commit it to the earth from whence it was taken 
to be Christianly buried at the discretion of my Executors. And as concerning my 
worldly goods, which God of his mercy have given me, I do dispose of them as 
followeth : — First, I will and bequeath unto Anna, my now loving wife, the thirds 
of all my houses and lands at my farm, which I formerly bought of Mr. Parker, with 
all her wearing clothes and linen, and £17 a year out of the produce of the farm and 
my other lands, until my son, Jona., come to one-and-twenty years of age, for the 
bringing up of my two younger children. Item, I will and bequeath unto my son, 
Jona. Wood, all those lands, both upland and meadow, which I formerly bought of 
Mr. Parker, being the farme which I now live upon, with all the buildings upon it ; 4 
acres of English pasture, lying on the N. side of the brooke, that runneth by my 
house, excepted ; allsoe I give unto the above said Jona., ten acres of meadow land 
out of that parcell of meadow, which I formerly bought of Lt. Fisher, of Dedham, 
as it shall be set out to him by my executors, at the south line of the said meadow 
next unto Mr. Jno. Hull's far d : allsoe I give unto the said Jona., one pair of oxen, 
one cow, one young horse, two ewes, one-half of all my tackling belonging to my 
teame, onedialf of all my wearing clothes, and one-fifth part of all my household stuff. 
Item, I will and bequeath unto my son, Eleazer Wood, all those lands, meadow and 
upland, which I formerly bought of Lt. Fisher, of Dedham, adjoining to my other 
farme above said, the ten acres of meadow land given to my son, Jona., above said, 
only excepted. Allsoe I give unto the said Eleazer, four acres of English pasture, 
which lyeth on the North side of the Brook above excepted : allsoe I give unto the said 
Eleazer, one pair of oxen, one cow, one young horse, three ewes, onedialf of all my 
tackling belonging to my teame, one-half of all my wearing clothes, and one-fifth part 
of my household stuff. Item, I will and bequeath unto my daughter, Mehetabel 
Wood, all that my meadow land, lying in the town of Milton, in the salt marsh, 
provid >d that what it shall amount to more than £60, upon a just and due valuation 
by indifferent men, shall be returned into the hands of my executors. Moreover, I 
give unto the said Mehetabel, two cows, two ewes, and one-fifth part of all my house- 
hold stuff. 

Item, I will and bequeath unto my daughter, Abigail Wood, all those my lands 
lying and being in the town of Roxbury, both upland and meadow, and what it shall 
fall short of £60, upon a just and due valuation by indifferent men, it shall be made 
up by [my] executors out of my other estate. Moreover, I give unto the said Abigail 
two cows, two ewes, and one-fifth part of all my household stuff. 

Item, I give unto my daughter, Bethya, all those houses and lands that I have in 
Watcrtowne, which I had with my last wife, after her decease, provided that what 



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they shall amount to more than £G0, upon a just and due valuation by indifferent 
men, shall be returned to my executors. Moreover, I give unto the said Bethya, 
two cows, three sheep, and one-fifth part of all my household stuff. And further, 
my will is, that if it should please the Lord to take away my son Jona. befoie he 
come to one-and-twenty jears of age, being in a single condition, that then my son 
Eleazer shall be sole heir to his portion, paying out to all his sisters then living, ten 
pounds apiece, which said payments shall be made as followeth, viz., ten pounds to 
his sister Mary Thurston within one year after the decease of ye said Jona , and so 
annually until he have paid to each of them ten pounds ; or if it should please God 
to take away my son Eleazer by death, before he shall come to the age of one-and- 
twenty years of age, that then my son Jona. shall be sole heir to his estate, paying 
out thereof six pounds apiece to all his sisters then living, which said payments shall 
be as followeth, viz., £G to his sister, Mary Thurston, within one year after the 
decease of his brother, and so annually until such time as he have paid each of them 
£6 ; or if it should please God to take away any of my three daughters, now in their 
minority, before they be of age to dispose of what I have left, then being in a single 
condition, that then their portions shall be equally divided between their brothers 
and sisters then living. 

Item, I will to my grandchild, Abraham Harding, the son of my dear daughter, 
Hannah Harding, now deceased, the sum of £5, to be paid him by my son Jona. 
•when the said Abraham shall be one-and-twenty years of age. 

And as for the residue of my estate, bills, bonds, debts, or moveables, with the 
produce of my farme, and my other lands, the £17 a year above mentioned, for the 
bringing up of my two younger children, except unbequeathed,and not given in this 
my last will and testament, my debts being paid, and funeral expenses, with all other 
necessary charges defraid, my mind and will is, that it should be equally divided 
between my two sons and my six daughters, when my son, Jona. Wood come to one- 
and-twenty years of age. And considering that the future as well as the present 
good of my family consists as much in their peace and love, as in what I have done 
for them ; and therefore as it have been so, at present is, as my duty, so my care, 
God assisting, so to leave things as might most conduce to the end, and therefore my 
will is, that if any of my children, one or other, son or daughter, shall be discon- 
tented with what I have here done, and shall thereby occasion any uncomfortable 
agitations or distractions, or suits at law, thereby to trouble my executors, notwith- 
standing their faithful endeavors to perform the trust committed to them, according 
to my true intent and purpose, their so doing shall stand as a just plea and bar against 
them, whosoever they be, for having any right to any part of my estate left, and the 
portion above willed them, shall be equally divided between the rest of my children. 

Item, I constitute, appoint and ordain Anna, my now loving wife, and John 
Thurston, jun., and Tho. Bass, both my sons-in-law, all executors of this my last 
will and testament, to ye intent that they shall see the same effectually performed, 
according to my true intent and meaning in the same. 

Item, I nominate and appoint my loving friend, George Barbour, of " Medfield," 
suproursar of this my last will and testament, desiring him, that he would be aiding 
and assisting to my executors in the execution thereof ; and I do hereby utterly 
revoke all other wills made by me at any time, with all gifts, legacies, whatever, by me at 
any time made ; and in token that this is my last will and testament, I have hereunto 
put my hand and seal this 18 of ye 4, 1G69, in the presence of 

Henry Layland, at ., ^ , . , , , ~ 

Hopestill Layland. Nicholas X Wood, his mark, and seal.* 

* He wrote when in health a fair hand, as did other Puritans whose wills were signed by a 
mark. The same could not be anciently said of all the nobility of England. 



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Nicholas W. d. Feb. 7 1G69-70 and his estate was inventoried 1. (12) 16G9-70 
at £1,040, consisting of real estate, 88 bus. of wheat at 4s. 6d. per bus., GO do. of 
Indian corn at 4s. 4d. ].er bus. ; 12 oxen at £60 ; 4 horses and a colt at £15 ; 11 cows 
at £36 ; 12 young cattle at £24 ; 12 swine at £7 10s. ; 13 sheep and 3 lambs at £6 ; 
2 carts and 2 tumbrels ; 7 sickles ; 6 scythes, hempbrake, &c. By Robert Badcock 
and Win. Daniell of 31ilton, by Robert and Samuel Williams of Roxbury, and by 
others of Medfd. All debts, including £50 due to his wid. " by agreement upon 
marriage," and his funeral expenses, &c, amounted to £72 2s., leaving £978 18s., a 
large estate for his day. 

He m. Mary (pr. Williams, ? and elder dg. of Dea. Robert W., of Roxb.), who 
seems to have returned from D. to Roxb., for her first confinement, and whose reputed 
fattier and brother, Dea. Robert and Samuel Williams, were appointed appraisers of 

lands in R , acquired by her. She d. Feb. 19, 1662--3. He m. 2d, Anna , 

pr. sis. or sister-in-law to Robert Badcock, of Milton, and do. to the wife of Henry 
Layland, of Sherhorn. He had, 

i. Mary, Dec. 25, 1642, at Roxb., m. John Thurston, of Medfd. ; 

ii. Sarah, b. also Dec. 25, 1G42, m. Tho. Bass, Dea., Oct. 4, 1660, and d. 

Dec 29, 1678, at Braintree ; 

in. Hannah, m. Dea. John Harding, of Medfield, Nov. 28, 1665; 

iv. Jona., Jan. 3, 1651, d. Feb. 21, 1675--6, killed by Indians on the 2d 

bank of Charles R , opposite Death's bridge, m. , and had only Silence, 

posthumous, b. in Dullard's fort the day after the massacre of her father ; 
and her mother expired a few hours after giving her birth. She m. John 
Hulbrook, of S. ; 

v. Mehetabel, Jly. 22, '55, the first Anglo-American child ascertained to have 
been born in S., m. Oct. 17, 1671, Capt. Joseph Morse, from Medfd., who 
settled upon a part of the farm left by her father, and built where 
Welter Barbour rs. She d. Nov. 12, 1G81 ; 
vi. Abigail, Sep. 13, 1657 ; vn. Bethiah, Jly. 28, 1660 ; 

vin. Eleazer, May. 14, 1662, d. May 20, 1704, m. Dorotha , pr. 

Badcock, fr. Milton, dg. of Geo. B. He fell beneath the tomahawk, by the 
side of his brother, in '75-6 ; was scalped and left for dead, yet recovered. 
He was ever after depressed in mind, and "strange." He inherited a large 
landed estate, and lived near Maj. Goulding's. He had 

i. Dorotha, who m. Capt. John Ware, senr., of Wrenth., Dec. 21, 
1709, and d. pr. without issue ; 

ii. Hannah, b. Feb.ll, 1688, m. Cpt. Joseph Ware, fr.W., Jan. 5,1708, 
who first settled on the place left by her father ; was grd.mother of Henry 
Ware, sen., D. D., Harv.U., and gr grd. do. of Hon. Asher W., of Me. 
nr. Abigail, Nov. 25, 1692, who m. Feb. 4, 1719-20, Samuel 
Williams, of S., the s. of Isaac Williams, of Newton, b. 1692, and grd. 
s. of Isaac W., of Roxb. and N., and gr. grd s. of Dea. Robt. W., of 
R., her reputed 2d, or rather 3d cousin, and rm. to Marlboro'. She had, 
i. Eleazer Wood, Jan. 5, 1720-1, at S. ; 
n. Dorotha, Jly. 8, 1722, at S., and pr. others at Marlb. 



Tapley Wyeth, M. D., grad. at H. U., 1786, and was M. M. S. S. He 

m. Sally Fisk, dg. of John F., of S., s. upon the Plain where Dea. 
Benoni Learned and his s. Capt. Edwd. L. had lived, and became an eminent 
physician and valuable citizen. He served 6 years as selectman, and repre- 
sented S. 1813, and was especially useful in the cause of education. He d. 
1813, had, i. Eliza Fisk, Jan. 21, 1799, d. unm. ; 
ii. Lucy Cooledge, bap. June 17, 1804, rs. at the homestead. 



H.cK 



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C.C. 




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Chvniile?-!- 1.1th XoSton 



KEY TO THE MAP OF SHERBOM, 

Showing the original grant and changes of the township prior to the 
incorporation of Frarningham in 1701. 

S. R., Sudbury River. 

H. ch., Hopkinton 1st and 2d meeting-house. 

F. ch., Frarningham do. 
N. ch., Natick, North do. 

I. ch., Indian meeting-house. 

M. M. s Medfield 1st, 2d and 3d do. 

E. M., E. Medway, 1st, 2d, and 3d do 
W. M., W. Medway, 1st do. 

II. ch., Holliston, 1st and 2d do. 

S. M., Sherborh, 1st, 2d and 3d d ». 
P. Dedham, now Bellingham and Dover. 
W. Wrentham, now Franklin. 

A. A.. Medfield first grant. 

B. B., Medfield second grant. 

S. S., part of Natick first grant, given Sherborn for X. X. 

H. H., Sherborn first grant. 

M. Mendham corner taken out of Sherborn 1st grant. 

X T . N., given out of do. to Natick for S. S. 

<J. G., remainder of Sherborn first grant. 

X. Deer Brook. 

Z. Cold Spring Brook. 

R. Cochituate Brook, and " Natick's land" added to S. 1G95. 

Q. Sawin's Brook. 

Y. Bogistow Brook and Pond. 

W. K., Washacum Pond. 

V. Winnekening Lake. 

G. L., Cochituate Lake. 

F. L., Farm Lake, 
f. Maggunkoa Hill. 

P. Pocassett Mountain. 

.Jr. Jasper's Hill and Rock. 

k. and 1., where the first planters settled. 

K. M., place firs! a ;reed on for the first meeting-house. 

Note. — The lands represented liv thi- map wen laid out bv circumference, exi eul 
B. B. 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 



Sherborn is situated between 17 and 22 miles of W. S. W. of Bos- 
ton, having Medway on the S., Holliston and Ashland on the W., Fra- 
mingham on the N., Natick on the N. and N. E., and Dover 
and Medfield on the E. From the two last S. is separated by Charles 
River. The township now contains about 10,000 acres, and her ex- 
treme length from N. to S. is six miles and thirty rods, and from E. to 
W. 4 miles and 154 rods. 

The peninsula included between Concord and Charles Rivers,* and a 
line from Saxonville to S. Natick, across the centre of which the origi- 
nal township extended, and which now embraces Sherborn, Medway, 
Holliston, Hopkinton, and large portions of Bellingham, Milford, Ash- 
land, Framingham and Natick, was originally occupied by the Nipmuck 
Indians,! and formed the S. E. part of their country. They were the 
first inland tribe with whom the English formed an acquaintance. When 
first reported to some from Plymouth in 1621, they were an independ- 
ent nation, governed by a squaw-sachem, who resided near Wachusett 
mountain. They possessed most of the present counties of Middlesex 
and Worcester. On the N. and W. their country is supposed to have 
extended still farther. In 1647 they had difficulty about a 
chief, and, irf their anarchy, bands of them seem to have attempted 
the preservation of their nationality. Tradition favors the belief that 
one body of them set up for independence, and erected their Stannocks W. 
of the straits in Sherborn, and that, long after, in consequence of a dispute 
about the location of the S. End scho< 1-house, and of the secession of the 
W. half of the district, and the erection of another school-house, the 
name was revived and applied in reproach to the new house, and at 
length to the whole of the new district. This band of the tribe are 
supposed to have had their principal residence at Mucksquit. Other 
portions of the nation also set up for independence, so that the Nip- 
mucks at one time had no less than five distinct chiefs. These divisions 
were probably a death-blow to their power and importance: for, "hav- 
ing no [single] chief of their own, they were at liberty to unite with other 
tribes." Those of the S. W. united with the Narragansetts ; but those 

* These rivers rise so near each other in the W. part of Hopkinton, that a snow 
+ a?i t ~f- mtervenin S rid S e mi S ht supply water for both fountains. 
t All Indian deeds to tracts of this country were signed bv members of that tribe, 
except a quit-claim by Josias to Medfield, while including Medway. Josias was the 
grandson of Chickatawbut, who resided on Neposet R., and was" subject to Massa- 
soit, in lu21, while the Nipmucks seemed to have been independent. Both tribes at 
a later rlay were eaUed the Massachusetts. 

1 



266 HISTORY OF SHERBOltX. 

occupying our peninsula and further 1ST. became the allies or subjects 
of the great Massasoit, and were induced by his son and successor, 
Philip, to join in his disastrous war upon the English. 

Previous to this, Eliot had preached to them in their language, 
and very small congregations of them had been collected at Natick, 
Grafton, Ilopkinton, Dudley, Marlboro' and Groton, most of whom re- 
lapsed, joined King Philip in the war of 1675, and miserably perished. 
The last body of them remaining together in force sufficient to cause 
alarms, resided in Rutland. Of the remainder, who professed to wel- 
come Christianity, enough has been written. How long they had inhab- 
ited here, cannot be conjectured. Throughout the peninsula have been 
discovered stone arrows, knives, hatchets, pestles, chisels, &c, attesting to 
the remote presence and barbarism of their predecessors. These have not 
been found equally dispersed. In some localities the greater number 
discovered point out the scenes of their encampments and battles ; and 
especially on the S. W. side of Winthrop's Lake, where they were gather- 
ed in such quantities by my great-grandfather and sons, as to induce the 
belief that one of the petty tribes, into which the Nipmucks finally 
divided, were located here when instruments of stone were dropped in 
exchange for those of iron and steel ; and that here stood the Indian 
town of Mucksquit.* After the grant of Medway to the proprietors of 
.Medfield in 1650 and 1659, a body of the Nipmucks resided within its 
territory, and, notwithstanding the deed of Josias, of the Massachusetts 
tribe, acknowledging the grant of his grandfather Chickatawbut, and con- 
firming to Medfield her entire territory, it is highly probable the Nipmucks 
continued to claim all W. and N. of Charles River, and that their claim 
was at length partially acknowledged, though I have met with no In- 
dian deeds to prove it ; for a band of them resided in the unimproved 
part of M. in 1698, and probably later ; and such of them as finally re- 
tired to Natick, continued in their descendants, within my own recol- 
lection, to claim the right of cutting broomsticks and making basket-stuff 
in M. ; and I was told by my father, who was remarkably curious in 
such matters, and accurately informed in the history of Med., that " such 
was the agreement, and that neither he nor his neighbors had any right 
to forbid them." Thus, it is presumed, conflicting claims to M. were 

■'This name was applied as a term of reproach to the N. W. quarter of Medway, 
but by most of the early settlers, it was repudiated, pushed N. and E., and confined to 
a tract scarcely larger than my ancestor's farm. Several circumstances must have in- 
vited the Indian to pitch here rather than elsewhere on the peninsula. It was near 
its territorial centre, bordering on its largest and most central lake. Here is a S. E. 
declivity and several moraines that offered sheltered situations for his wigwams on the 
X. E. ; the shore of the lake is here bold, and indented with narrow bays and inlets, to 
afford facilities for hunting and fishing, launching and loading his canoes ; here herring 
and shad, which then ascended to the place, were stopped ; — a few rods W. was an 
elevated ridge for watching the flight of game, and, on three sides, were natural mead- 
ows to attract it; and from this place, during vernal and autumnal floods, he could 
descend in his canoe to Bogistow pond and Charles lliver, through marshes and 
meadows teeming with fowl, or by the portage of his canoe, one-third of a mile W. he 
could glide down AYennakeening brook to the same river, and on its current visit 
J'opulatic pond, pass through the Eroad meadows, land at Eogistow pond, pack home 
his game or, on the next flood, return bv water. 



HISTORY OF BHERBORN. 267 

compromised. But in reference to Sherborn lands, the rightful claim- 
ants first appeared and -were satisfied. Deeds were taken of the Nip- 
mucks to all parts of the original and present town. 

The exploration of their lands by the English probably commenced 
with the discovery of their tribe in 1621 ; for, in 1631, when Winthrop 
& Co. ascended Prospect Hill in Waltham, he " saw the whole Nipmuck 
country." In 1643 this part was so well known, that the G . Court did 
not hesitate to encourage its settlement by grants to individuals. These 
grants, which were multiplied until the entire district was incorporated 
into towns, conveyed to the grantees only the rights secured to the 
colony by charter from King James I, who, by right of discovery, 
claimed the entire country, to the exclusion not of the aborigines,whatever 
other sovereigns had djne, but of other nations, and of the independent 
jurisdiction of colonists. Such grants never interfered with the perfect 
right of the Indians to such lands as they had improved, nor denied 
their imperfect rights to such as remained in a state of nature, and over 
which they had chanced to be the first to roam. On the contrary, 
the grantees were required to extinguish by purchase the Indian claims, 
which were doubtless rights with reference to other Indians who 
subsisted by hunting, but mere claims of doubtful right in reference to 
such as would denude and till the soil. The grantees, or their repre- 
sentatives, as will be seen, respected the condition of their grants. All 
Indian deeds were not recorded. Enough, however, have been found to 
justify the belief that they paid the Indian to his full satisfaction for 
every acre they took, and such a price, too, that had he invested a frac- 
tion of it in an axe, a spade, and a hoe, and obeyed an obvious law of 
nature, illustrated and enforced by the example of his new neighbors, 
he would have quickly attained to comforts unknown to him in his 
savage state, while in the occupancy of all his lands. 

The following grants occur on the records of the General Court 
viz. : — In 

1643, to Mr. [Rev.] John Allen, of Dedham, was granted 200 acres in 
the woods W. of Chs. R., now in the N. E. part of Med., owned 
and occupied by Cpt. Eleazer and Dea. Paul Daniels. 
Oct. 23, 1649, to Cpt, Robert Kayne [of Bos.] 1,074 do. of meadow 
and upland upon Pawsett alias Pocassett hill, beyond Dedham Vil- 
lage [Medfd.], bounded S. by Mr. John Allen's farm ; S. by E. and 
E. and N. E. by Charles R. ; N. and N. W. and W. by waste lands. 
See p. 23. 
At the same date, to Richard Brown [of Watertown] 200 acres ; 
bounded on the S. and S. W. by Kayne's land ; on the E. by Charles 
R. ? ; on the N. W. [pr. N. E.] by Richard Parker ; and on the 
N. W. by waste lands. See p. 161. 
At the same time to Richard Parker [of Bos.] 435 acres, bounded S. 
by Brown's ; S. E. by Chs. R. ; E. by the upland running into the 
River ; and on the N. W. the W. and S. W. by waste land ; and 
confirmed to him 100 acres more, bought of the Surveyor General. 
His lot " was to continue so far on the River, taking in the 



268 HISTORY OF SI1ERBORN. 

meadow on both sides as lyeth on the E. side of the path going from 
Focassett Hill to Natick." See p. 261. 

About the same time, and before Natick was incorporated, was granted 
to some one 500 acres, including Sewell's meadow and the upland N. 
and E. and S. E. of the same, which was owned and improved by 
Cpt. John Hull of Bos. prior to 1674. 

1656, to Simon Bradstreet was laid out 800 do. [granted before Natick 
was laid out], bounded E. by Chs. It. and situated E. and N. and 
N. W. of Farm Lake. See p. 178. 

May 26, 1659, to Gapt. Eleazer Lusher 250 do., the S. angle thereof 
lying near Medfield new grant, and the N. angle near the S. W. 
angle of Natick bounds [the land on which the central village of 
Holliston is built] ; also to him 12 acres of meadow in two parcels 
beyond the N. W. angle, lying on the brook Wennakeening, 
[Chicken Br.,] which Lusher sold to Henry Adams of Medf'd 
15 (15) 1660 ; and which was afterward owned by Col. Samuel 
Brown, of Salem, and Judge Sewell. See p. 69 and 243. 

May 11, 1659, was laid out to Dean Winthrop, s. of Gov. John W., and 
to Francis Vernon, 700 acres as it abutteth upon Medfd. line, in 
part towards the S., and a stony ridge in part, andBogistow brook 
in part towards the E. and S. E., and upon a pond (Winthrop's) 
in part toward the W., and upon waste lands on all other parts. 
This was purchased and extensively improved by Capt. John 
Goulding. See p. 91 and 174. 

1658, to Tho. Holbrook was granted 50 acres, and he purchased 43 
more, making up the " upland running into the River " at the 
Narrows E. of Parker's grant. See p. 140. 

1658, to Mr. Wm. Colburne of Bos., and laid out in 1660, 300 acres 
in the wilderness beyond Medfd. adjoining unto the E. side of 
Nicholas wood," now situated between Maj. Goulding's and the 
Farm Bridge. 

1662, to Col. Wm. Brown, 500 acres on the S. side of Sudbury R. at 
Cold Spring, on which stands Ashland village, which was mean- 
dered out in running the N. line of Sherborn, and afterwards an- 
nexed to Hopk., and afterwards owned and improved by Col. Jones. 

1664. 27, (3) to Lt. Joshua Fisher of Dedham, 300 acres upon Mdfd. 
line towards the S., and Tyng's farm toward the N., Sheffield's 
farm towards the W., and an acute angle towards the E. This 
land he seems to have sold to Nicholas Wood. He appears to 
have previously received a grant of 900 or 500 do. W. of this 
grant, which he had before sold to Edmond and Wm. Sheffield. 

About the same time, to Edward Tynge, a committee of the G. C. 
recommended that 250 acres be granted, which he doubtless re- 
ceived, N. E. of Bogistow Br., and now situated S. of the late 
Wm. Leland's, or Horatio Gardner's. 

1664. 28 (8) to John Parker, 150 acres now in H. 

Other grants, and one of Hopper's farm of 280 do. in the W. of 
H., were also granted prior to 1674. These grants were early 



HISTORY OF SHEBBOBN. 2GD 

sold to actual settlers, who extinguished the Indian claims as they 
found claimants or chiefs empowered to make conveyances. Shef- 
field purchased in 1675, 500 acres of John Awasamog, now includ- 
ing Doct. Fisk's farm and the Stedman place. Others united in 
procuring a common quit-claim, as the following transcript from 
Suff. Reg. of Deeds will show. 
To all Christian People to whom this present Deed of sale shall come, 
greeting. Know ye that we, Waban, John Awasamog, Peter Ephraim, 
Piamboho, John Magus, Andrew Pittimee, & Great John, natives 
& natural descendants of the ancient inhabitants & proprietors of 
the lands lying in about the town of Sherborne within the Massa- 
chusits colony of New England, for ourselves as principalis, & in be- 
half of the other Indian claimers of said lands, being thereto impowered 
by them, for & in consideration of the summe of Two and Twenty Pounds 
current money of New England, to us in hand at and before the Enseal- 
ing hereof, well & truly paid by the several persons hereafter named, 
viz., John Hull, Esq., of Boston, Capt. Wm. Gerrish, [successor to Mr. 
Richard Parker, late of the same place, dece'd,] Daniel Morse sen., 
Hopestill Lealand & Margaret Lealand, [joint Executors of the last will 
of Henry Lealand dec'd,] John Hill, Tho. Breek, Tho. Holbrooke, Benj. 
Bullard, Joseph Twitchell & Joseph Morse, all of Sherborn aforesaid, in 
proportion according to the several tracts, or parcels of land, herein to them 
granted, the receipt whereof Ave do hereby acknowledge to our full con- 
tent and satisfaction, have granted, bargained, sold, released, enfeoffed & 
confirmed, & by these presents do fully, freely, & absolutely grant, 
bargain, sell, enfeoffe, release & confirm unto the persons above named, 
all these tracts or parcells of land lying in or about the Towne of Sher- 
born aforesaid, now possessed by or heretofore taken up or granted to 
them k every of them, viz.: unto John Hull, Esq., lands in severall par- 
cells, estimated at six hundred acres, be they more orlesse ; unto Capt. 
Wm. Gerish, six hundred acres, more or lesse ; unto Hopestill & Marga- 
ret Lealand, two hundred acres, more or lesse ; unto Daniel Morse sen., 
six hundred acres, more or lesse ; unto John Hill, two hundred & fifty 
acres, more or lesse ; unto Tho. Breek, one hundred acres, more or lesse ; 
unto Thomas Holbrooke, three hundred acres, more or lesse ; unto 
Benjamin Bullard, one hundred & fifty acres, more or lesse ; unto Joseph 
Twitchell, one hundred acres, more or lesse ; unto Joseph Morse, one hun- 
dred acres, more or lesse, both upland and meadow grounds within the 
said severall tracts or parcells ; together with all and singular, the 
wayes, rights, libertys, pasturages, herbage, comonage, feedings, rivers, 
waters, ponds, springs, pools, fowling, fishing & hunting thereunto be- 
longing, & all woods, underwoods, trees, and timber whatsoever there- 
upon standing, lying or growing ; and all the estate, right, titles, inter- 
est, use, propriety, possession, claime & demand whatsoever of the In- 
dians or either of them, of, in, or to the said lands & premises, & every 
of them. 

To have & to hold the above granted tracts or parcels of land above 
mentioned, with the rights, libertys, privilidges & appurtenances thereof, 



270 HISTORY OF SIIERBORN. 

unto the said John Hull, William Gerrish, Daniel Morse, sen., Hopestill 
& Margaret Lealand, John Hill, Thomas Breek, Thomas Holbrooke, Ben- 
jamin Bullard, Joseph Twitchell & Joseph Morse, respectively, & their re- 
spective heirs & assigns forever ; and we, Waban, John Awasamog, Peter 
Ephraim, Piamboho, John Magus, Andrew Pittimee & Great John, for 
ourselves, our heirs, execu's, admin's, & successors, & for & in behalf 
of the other Indian claimers of said land, being by them impowered 
thereunto, do hereby covenant, promise & grant to & with the said John 
Hull, "William Gerrish, Daniel Morse, sen., Hopestill & Margaret Lea- 
land, John Hill, Thomas Breek, Thomas Holbrooke, Benjamin Bullard, 
Joseph Twitchell, & Joseph Morse, their heirs & assignes, that they & 
every of them, shall & may, from time to time, & at all times, forever 
hereafter, lawfully, peaceably & quietly have, hold, occupie, possess, & 
enjoy their said respective parcells of land, improved or unimproved, with 
all rights, libertys, priviliges & appurtenances thereunto belonging, with- 
out the least let, denial, reclaime, hinderance, suite, trouble, eviction or 
expulsion, of us or either of us, our or either of our heires, execu's, admin's, 
successors or assignes, & of all other Indian or Indians whomsoever, 
claiming the same or any part or parcell thereof ; we having full power, 
good right & lawful authority to release & confirm the said lands unto 
the above named persons, their heires, & assignes forever. In witness 
whereof we have hereunto put our hands & seales, this Twelfth day of 
June, Anno Domini one thousand six hundred eighty & two, Anno qr. 
R. R. Caroli Secundi. 

Memorandum : It is agreed, before the signing & sealing hereof, that 
grant & deed of sale is not to be understood to abridge the Indians 
from fishing and fowling in or upon the pond or rivers within this tract 
of land above mentioned, according as the law of the country gives lib- 
erty as well to the English as Indians. 

Waban, his marke & Seale, 
John Awasamog, 
Signed, sealed and delivered in Peter Ephraim, 
presence of us, Piambowhow, 

John Magus, 
John Grout, Sen'r. Andrew Pittimee, 

Daniel Gookin. Great John. 

This deed legally acknowledged by the parties that signed and sealed 
the same this 12th day of July, 1682, before Daniel Gookin, Senr., 
Assistant. 

Entered Aug., 1682, Js. Addington, Clre. 

This deed of 3000 acres to the grantees and their representatives cov- 
ered none of the other lands included in the township. But these were 
afterwards purchased, and no doubt of the same representatives of the 
Nipmucks, for I find upon the Proprietor's Records of a later date, a 
transcript of the following rates assessed in 1686 upon the " Inhabitants 



HISTORY OF SIIEUBORN. 



271 



of Sherbom for the Indian title," not including those who had in th e 
mean time been set off to Framingham. 



Daniel Morse, senr. 


10s 


;. Id. 


Will Goddard 


Is. 


lid 


Obadiah Morse 


4 


5 


Will Rider 


4 


6 


Daniel Morse, jun. 


4 


5 


Ebenr. Fairbanke 


o 
o 


2 


Jona. Morse 


6 


10 


Edward West 


3 


8 


John Perry 


5 


10 


Elisha Bullen ^ 


1 


9 


Joseph Morse 


6 


o 
o 


Moses Adams 


5 


5 


Eleazer Wood 


5 





Abraham Cousens 


2 


o 


Hopestill Leland 


5 


4 


Walter Shepherd 


1 


9 


Tho. Holbrooke, senr. 


7 


2 


Geo. Brake 


1 


9 


John Hill, senr. 


11 





John Cooledge 







Tho. Brick 


4 


6 


John Brick 


2 


11 


Benj. Ballard 


7 





Tho. Holbrook, jun. 


o 
o 





Jona. Fairbanke 


7 


5 


Zach. Buckmaster 


1 


8 


Will Sheffield 


8 


9 


Ebenr. Lealand 


4 





Eben Hill 


2 





Eben Badcock 


2 


10 


Joseph Twitchell 


3 


o 
O 


Benj. Twitchell 


2 


6 


Lodowick Dowse 


2 


1 


John Holbrook (of Roxb,) 


8i 


Ephm. Bullen f 


6 


3 


" admitted." 






Tho. Sawin 


3' 


4 


Richard Holbrook (of 






Jona. Whitney 


4 


2 


Dorch'r) " admitted." 




8* 


Benoni Learned 


O 


10 


Total, £8 9s. Id 






Nathaniel Morse 


3 


9 









The amount assessed upon those who were annexed 15 years after- 
wards to Framingham is presumed to have made the rate £10. 

This, added to £22 paid by the associated proprietors of 3000 acres, 
makes £32. If we add what was paid by Sheffield and other grantees, 
who, probably, like him, took separate Indian deeds ; and the 200 bush- 
els of corn (at 2s. 4d. per bushel), given to the Naticks to render 
equivalent lands given them in exchange for an equal quantity, the 
amount paid them for the township could not have been less than £75. 
This sum was more than equal to that paid by other communities for 
larger and better tracts, and this in an age when £1 was a representa- 
tive of four times its present value in the necessaries of life, and in a 
country where land was so plenty and cheap that half a township is ascer- 
tained to have been sold by an English proprietor for a wheel- 
barrow. The natives in the purchase were not defrauded. The strict- 
est justice marked the conduct of our sires towards them. Long after 
they had given them 4000 acres, now in Hopk. and Ashland, for an equal 
quantity taken from Natick, and 200 bushels of corn to boot, the In- 
dians complained that the difference in value was greater. Our sires 
entertained their complaint, chose a committee to examine its grounds, 
who reported in favor of a further appropriation. This appears to have 
been unanimously accepted, and we hear no further complaint. Our 
fathers were honest men. They came not as robbers. They found these 
lands as God gave the whole earth to man ; and they laid at the feet, 



272 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

yea, urged the indolent savage to accept a tenfold equivalent in tempo- 
ral good for all they invited him to surrender. His refusal and conse- 
quent ruin was not their fault. But the poor Indian is gone — the na- 
tion is extinct ; and the record of his doom deserves perpetuation as well 
as the desolations of Nineveh and Egypt, for it echoes the fearful dec- 
laration, " The nation and kingdom that will not serve me, shall utterly 
perish." All that he has left of his language and works are a few min- 
eral implements and the names of a few localities. The latter, let us re- 
vive upon our maps ; and the former, arrange with our cabinets, in mourn- 
ful remembrance of his history, and in admonition of the certainty that 
our end will be as complete, and our relics as few, in proportion to our 
greatness, if we despise such warnings, and array ourselves against the 
laws of the Highest. 

When the first planters arrived, they found the country densely 
covered with massive and towering trees. The uplands, by the annual 
vernal fires of the natives to hasten vegetation for the deer, were 
deprived of underbrush, and the trees trimmed by flames to a height 
convenient for extensive views. The low grounds abounded as much then, 
as now, with wet prairies, called meadows, which were then prolific of 
blue-joint and other nutritious grasses. These were the lands first sought 
and most highly valued. Their stock was their wealth and chief depend- 
ence. No man could subsist without a natural meadow for hay ; and 
no grant was worth accepting, no farm was bought or assigned after- 
wards, without this indispensable appendage. Next to wet prairies, cedar 
swamps were most valued. Unacquainted with the feasibility of con- 
structing walls of boulders, few of which comparatively had then risen 
to the surface, or with the durability of rails of other timber, a cedar 
grove was almost indispensable. Tracts yielding cedar, like the mead- 
ows, were ever divided into small lots, to accommodate each planter. 
The botany of the country was then somewhat different from the present. 
It is probable that all exogenous plants now growing spontaneously here, 
occurred then. Sycamore, buckeye, horse-chestnut, sugar-maple, butter- 
nut, persimmon, mulberry, locust, black walnut, white-wood, and other va- 
rieties, indigenous to our botanical province, were seldom, if ever, then 
found on our peninsula. But white and yellow oak, of all varieties, hickory, 
chestnut, and in many localities, pine and hemlock, covered most of the 
ground, and rendered the task of clearing extremely slow and difficult. 
ISome herbaceous plants, originally abundant, have nearly or quite disap- 
peared, giving place to less valuable ones. Fowl-meadow, so called from a 
supposition that birds had brought the seed, made its first appearance about 
one hundred years after the arrival of our sires ; and as it had never been 

* Science shows that God watches over every clod of his earth and drop of his wa- 
ter, and stocks it with useful organic forms adapted to the altered states which they 
assume. This was his manner in former epochs : and the record of the six demiurgic 
days' work implies no intimation that creation was then brought to an eternal stand- 
still ; and that though the earth should change through the interference of man 
faster than ever before, God would not follow it, as formerly, and make further 
displays of his wisdom and power, in calling into being new species of plants and 
animals. 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 273 

seen before, it was probably a new creation.* When the parties entered 
the country, its contour seemed more various than at present. The hills, 
covered with the loftiest trees, appeared mountains. The streams, 
obstructed by fallen wood and the dams of beavers and natives, then over- 
flowed their banks, and were long in discharging their waters, a circum- 
stance subjecting them often to the loss of their hay, and greatly embar- 
rassing intercommunications. They found no roads. The natives had 
cleared a few fields, and marked out for them the fording places ;f and a 
saddled ox or horse, and often a canoe, served them for a chaise or 
wagon. The various wild and destructive animals abounded here,$ and 
the treacherous savage was in the land, not yet disarmed by the apostolic 
labors of Eliot. 

Such was the condition of our peninsula in 1652, when our sires began 
its settlement. 

ORIGIN OF THE SETTLEMENT. 

The first transfer of either of the above described grants to actual 
settlers was on May 8, 1652, 0. S., (see page 261). Immediately after, 
Nicholas Wood and Tho. Holbrooke took possession and commenced opera- 
tions. They were soon followed by Henry Layland, (see pages 140 and 
161). They located between Death's Bridge and Holbrook's mills from 
3 to I mile from each other, and 4 miles from their nearest English neigh- 
bors. In 1657, or early in 1658, Benj. Bullard and Geo. Fairbank be- 
gan improvements on the margin of Bogistow Pond, (see pages 23 and 
82,) and about the same time John Hill and Tho. Breck settled between 
them and Death's Bridge, (see pp. 16 and 101). Irl 1658, Daniel Morse 
established himself about \ mile N. W. of Farm Bridge, (see page 178.) 
These were men in the prime of life, and possessed of considerable 
property, especially Wood, Hill, Morse and Holbrooke. They were soon 
afterward joined by Tho. and Samuel Bass, Wm. Briggs, Geo. Spear and 
Benj. Albey, who located near them, but removed prior to 1674. En- 
couraged by such accessions, and the prospect of more, they began to 
entertain hopes of being erected into a town. Though remote from 

*See note on preceding page. 

t One of these fields was on the south side of Peter's Hill, where Peter Ephraim is 
said to have raised corn ; another on Edward's Plain, northeast of S. common ; 
another near Holbrook's Mills ; two others one fourth of a mile south of Mucksquit ; 
and another on Abraham's Plain, one half mile north-west of the latter place. 

An Indian trail ascended Charles River, crossed Sewell's brook where Holbrook's 
Mills stand, proceeded through the straits to Pocasset mountain, which afforded 
them an observatory for watching the Might of ducks over the meanderings of Bogis- 
tow brook and Charles River. This trail is supposed to have extended to Mucksquit, 
crossing Bogistow brook at the Stedman place, and the inlet of Winthrop's Lake, 
near its mouth, and was doubtless the path to Mendon mentioned by Eliot, and trod 
by his holy feet. 

J These animals were not exterminated for a century. The last moose was at- 
tempted to be captured by Richard Sanger and negro about 1745. The sons of John 
Phipps killed the last deer in Sherborn about 1747, and one was shot on Abraham's 
Plain in H. about this time. Bears were troublesome on Wennakeening brook and 
Winthrop's Lake as late as 1730. The last panther made his appearance in Medway 
about 1790. 



274 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

Meadfield, and not included within her corporate bounds, they took up 
privileges there, and became enrolled and taxed as her citizens, and on 
her records for 25 years the births and deaths in their families were en- 
tered. But after the expiration of 10 years from the commencement of 
their settlement, they subscribed the following petition : — 

" The humble Petition of several of the inhabitants of Bogistow, to be 
presented to the much honored General Court, 7 of 3mo, 1662." 

" Whereas, the Providence of the most wise God who hath appointed 
the bounds of all mens habitations, having in mercy we hope disposed of 
us and our families in that place commonly called Bogestow, upon lands 
which we purchased of several gentlemen in this country, and having 
for some years although with great difficulty attended upon the means 
of grace at Meadfield ; first, in respect of the distance ; and secondly, by 
reason of the great danger that many times we goe in, in going over 
Charles River, which is caused by great floods and much ice, although 
as yet no great hurt done, for which we have great cause to bless God ; 
yet considering that it may be more for the honor of God and the future 
good and benefit of ourselves and posterity, that we should endeavour 
the setting up of the worship and ordinances of God among ourselves ; 
especially, being increased to some number of inhabitants already, and 
more are daily expected. These and such like considerations doe im- 
bolden us whose names are here underwritten, humbly to petition this 
much Honoured Court liberty to be a Towne of ourselves with such 
others as may be admitted to our Society hereafter. And further, we 
your humble Petitioners are bold to request this Honoured Court to 
grant unto us and our associates for those ends formerly exprest such a 
tract of land as may be in some measure comfortably for our future sub- 
sistance, as a small village in this Commonweal ; namely, so much 
land as conteines five miles square, where it may be found adjoining to 
our own lands already purchased, or upon Natic line, or upon Meadfield 
bounds as this Honoured Court shall see meet. And wee who acknowl- 
edge ourselves subjects of this Commonwealth shall pray as our duty is 
that God would bless and prosper you in all your weighty occasions. 

"Daniel Morse," 
" Nicholas Wood," 
" Henry Layland," 
"Thomas Holbrooke," 
"Thoas Bass," 
"John Hill," 
"Thomas Berck," 
"Benjamin Bdllward," 
"William Briggs," 
" George Fairbank," 
" Samuel Bass," 
" George Spear," 
"Robert Kentdill," 
"Benjamin Albey." 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. ZiO 

In answer to this Petition, the General Court appointed " Ephraim 
Littlefield and Edward Jackson, a Committee to view the place and re- 
turn their apprehensions." The result seems to have been unfavorable, 
as nothing more is heard of their petition. Of its 14 subscribers, 6 re- 
moved and one died before 1674. The settlement, however, continued, 
and was strengthened by the arrival of Dea. Samuel Bullen and adult son, 
of Joseph Morse and John Perry, and by the marriage and establishment 
of 4 sons of the first planters. 

The settlement was now 22 years old, had large and productive or- 
chards, and the stock and produce of the farms were equal to those of the 
largest in S. at the present day, yet it had not extended far beyond 
the second bank of Charles River. 

ORIGIN OF THE TOWN. 

The first planters of Bogistow had now become advanced in years, 
and anew generation had arisen to revive and urge on their favorite scheme 
of a new town and church. In their second application, Joseph Morse, 
then a young man, evidently took the lead, and appears to have drawn 
and first subscribed the following petition : — 

To the Honoured Gov. & Deputy Gov., with the rest of the assistants 
& deputyes of the Generall Court of his Majesty's Colony of the Mas- 
sachusets, in New England, now sitting in Boston this seventh day of 
October, 1674 : 

The petition of diverse of the Inhabitants & proprietors of lands at 
or near Bogestow — 

Humbly sheweth, Whereas the Lord who hath appointed unto all men 
the bounds of their habitations to dwell on the earth, hath by the good 
hand of Providence planted neere twenty families already settled on 
farmes formerly granted unto severall by the Honoured Gennerall 
Court in this part of the wildernesse called Boggestow, & neere there- 
unto, besides some other farmes, not yet Improved, lying between the 
bounds of Naticke & Meadfeild, & upon the ivest of both, which probably 
may shortly be emprooved also ; & whereas your humble petitioners, 
that have for some years lived at Boggestow & there abouts, amongst 
other difficultyes have not found it our least to goe to meeting on the 
Lord's day unto Meadefeild, by reason not only of the distance from 
theare, and the leaving of severall at home, but also in regard of the dif- 
ficulty in passing over the water betwext in winter seasons & times of 
floods, which sometimes prooves hazardous to health & life ; wherefore for 
our releife herein, and that wee may not wholly omit our duty what in us 
lyeth to spread the Gospel in this wildernesse by the procuring of the 
ministry of the Word amongst ourselves, not only for our owne edification 
& consolation, but also that after us God & the Word of his grace may 
be to our posterity a standing refuge ; wherefore for our encouragement 
in this worke, & for the better regulating of aiFayres amongst us, we your 
petitioners do humbly crave the favourable help of this Honoured 
Court, first that this Court will be pleased to grant unto your petitioners 



276 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

all those parcells of common or countrey lands that lyeth between the 
bounds of Meadfeild & the bounds of Naticke, & so at the vrest end of 
Meadfeild & Naticke bounds, so much of the country lands as conteynt 
six miles square ; and secondly, that this Court would be pleased to 
<>rant that all the farmes & lands of your petitioners, & all the other 
farmes, improved or not improved, lying betweene the bounds of Mead- 
feild & the bounds of Naticke, with the quantity of land of six miles 
square of the wildernesse land, and all those farmes formerly granted 
falling within that tract of land as may [be] layed out, may be by this Hon- 
oured Court made a towne, & that the name thereof may be [ ], 

and your petitioners shall ever be your remembrancers. And further 
your petitioners humbly desire leave that this Court would grant unto 
us liberty of Naticke Indians to purchase, by way of exchange of lands 
or otherwise, for pay, two miles in breadth of their lands on the south 
side of their bounds from the west bounds of the farm of Daniel Morse 
unto the west end of Naticke bounds, and also that this Court would be 
pleased to grant us freedome from country rates for 7 years, or such 
time as this Court shall please. 

Joseph Morse, 
Henry Adams," 



v- 



Samuel Bullen, 
Benj. Bullard, 
Tho. Holbrooke, 
John Hill, 
Henry Laland, 
Tho. Breck (his mark), 
Geo. Fairbank, 
Daniel Morse, 
John Perry, 
Daniel Morse, Jr., 
Jonathan Morse, 
Obadiah Morse, 
John Bullen, <- 
Jonathan Wood. 

" At a General Court, held at Boston, Oct. 7, 1674.— In answer to 
the Petition of the Inhabitants and proprietors of Land near Bogestow, 
the Court, Oct. 21, granted the Petitioners the quantity of Six miles 
square, not exceeding eight miles in length, to take in as many Farms 
with the vacant Lands adjoining or intermixed therewith as that quan- 
tity of Land will admitt ; provided that none of the Farmers shall have 
any part of the aforesaid vacant Land now granted by this Court ;— 
but the said Land to be distributed amongst such other persons as will 
come to inhabit in the said Town as the major part of the Farmers think 
meet ; provided that there be a Farm of 200 Acres of meet land re- 
served, and by Captain Fisher laid out for a Farm for the Country ; 

* Henry Adams was of Medfield, but signed the petition as a proprietor and occu- 
pier. The remainder were residents. 



HISTORY OP SHERBORN. 277 

and that no Man shall have allotted above fifty Acres, till there be twen- 
ty new families settled there, and then the whole that is free to be dis- 
posed of as the major part of the Inhabitants, capable by law to vote, 
shall judge meet. And the name of the Town to be called Shearborn. 
A true Coppy attested. Edward Rawson, Secretary." 

The form of the township, when laid out, was very peculiar. The 
original S. line of Natick was directed to be drawn 4 miles Westerly 
from Charles River, or the house of Nicholas Wood, which stood 13 
rods S. of Holbrook's mills, and it extended W. to a rock on Jasper Hill 
W. of the Comb manufactory in Holliston. From this " corner" or 
" Jasper Rock" the W. line of Natick extended N. Westerly to Sud- 
bury River to a point 4 miles in a straight line S. W. of " the wading 
place" on Cochituate Brook, supposed to have been not far from its 
mouth. When, therefore, Sherborn was protracted, it must, in form, have 
resembled a hand card with its handle between Natick and Medfield, 
about 1 mile wide, and with its blade W. of those towns extending 
N. to Sudbury R. and S. to Charles R. and the N. line of Bellingham, 
then a part of Dedham. It included the S. W. quarter of Ashland, 
except 500 acres between Sudbury R. and Cold Spring Brook, the East- 
ern third of Hopkinton, and the E. part of Milford, then Mendon. 
But when the survey was found to have " intrenched" upon a previous 
grant, and Mendon corner had been taken out, its form next resembled 
the arms of a wind-mill with the North and West arms conjoined. Af- 
ter an exchange of the N. W. quarter of the township for the S. part 
of Natick, the form was more convenient, but hardly more comely. 

As the petitioners modestly refrained from proposing any name for 
their town, the G. C. are presumed, as in similar instances, to have as- 
signed the name of the native place of some settler or proprietor. 
Sherborn, after which it is named, is an ancient, large and well inhabited 
town in the N. part of Dorsetshire, 40 miles W. by S. from Salsbury, 
and 118 W. by S. from London.* Present population about 2,000. It 
was formerly a place of much distinction, where some of the an- 
cient Saxon kings were buried, and where a monastery existed. It 
was at a later day rendered famous as the place where the prime nobil- 
ity met William, Prince of Orange, and welcomed him to the throne 
of England. Other circumstances almost prove that some of the 
sires of the first planters were from Dorsetshire ; and Sherborn was 
not improbably the birth-place of some prominent settler or proprietor, 
and most likely of Henry Adams, then a venerable member of the G. C, 
from Medfield, and the most distinguished of the petitioners and proprie- 
tors. Six weeks after the passage of the above act the records of the 
town commence. 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TOWN, AND GENERAL COURT. 

Sherborn, 1674-5, Jan. 4th. — Assembled for the ordering the affairs 
of Shearborn, Daniel Morse, George Fairbanks, Robert Badcock, Henry 

♦Some antiquarians derive the name of Sherborn from the Saxon words Seine brim — 
denoting pure water. If this etymology is correct, it is most appropriately applied 
to our town. 



278 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

Adams, Thomas Holbrook, Benjamin Bullard, John Hill, Henry La- 
land, Joseph Morse, Obediah Morse, Daniel Morse, jr., Jonathan Morse, 
John Perry, Jonathan AVood. Thomas Eames is accepted as an inhabi- 
tant of Shearborn. 

At this meeting Committees ■were appointed, to take a view of the 
Land for the laying out of the Courts grant ; to agree with Thomas 
Thurston, Surveyor, for the laying out that Tract of Land — and assist 
the measurer about laying out the Land, &c. Also, Henry Adams, 
Robert Badcock & Thomas Eames are required to treat with Capt. 
Gooken and -whom it may concern else, for the purchasing of some Na- 
tick Land to the accommodating the Plantation, and to make return to 
the Company. 

Sherborn, 1675, — March 8th — Assembled for the ordering the affairs 
of Sherborn. " Voted to raise fifty shillings for the Surveyor for his 
work." At this Meeting Committees were chosen " to take a view 
•where to add to the grants of Land what is yet wanting to make up the 
complement, and to take a view of Natick Land, for the exchanging with 
them." 

But the consent of the G. C. was first to be obtained, and on their 
records the following act occurs, dated May 12, 1675 : — " In answer to 
the petition of Henry Adams, in the name and by appointment of the far- 
mers and petitioners of Sherborne, it is ordered that Capt. Daniel Fisher, 
Sarjant Richard Ellis, and Sarjant Tho. Thurston, of Meadfield, be a 
Committee to see the said exchange performed to mutual consent of par- 
ties ; and Capt. Gookin and Mr. Eliot, on behalf of the Indians, and to 
consider the equality of their other request, [probably the offer of <£50 to 
boot,] provided Natick bounds be first layd out and agreed upon, and pre- 
sented perfected to this Committee by the 1st of Sept. next, however, 
that the Committee go on to perfect the plantation by the next session 
making their report to this Court." 

Philip's war broke out immediately afterwards, and suspended for 
nearly two years all further action relative to the town. Alarmed for the 
safety of their lives, the inhabitants prepared for the murderous visit 
to which they were peculiarly exposed. Their two garrisons were 
doubtless put in order, and every man, woman and boy trained to handle 
a musket and watch against surprise from an enemy who knew no honor 
or mercy. Of their situation let imagination conceive. Surely the 
pains of fear and suspense which they must have endured would have 
worn out any but the stoutest hearts and the most determined purposes. 
But they meditated no retreat, as appears from the following note, ad- 
dressed, as is supposed, to Maj. Gen. John Leverett, then Governor, 
and found in the Sec'y of State's office : — 

" May it please your Worship, 

Prostrating my humble service to your 
Worship, I made bold lately to request your help of 4 men to be the 
garrison at my house which is for my family and my sons with me, 
most being married men ; I humbly prosecute my request that so it 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 279 

might be that I might have 4 men out of Medfield, and that Edward West 
and Benjamin Fisk (sons-in-law) might be two of them, they living in 
the remote part of Medfield next my farme and they being willing to 
come if liberty by authority were given that they might be imprest by 
authority to be ready when I shall call for them. Thus I make bold, 
humbly begging the everlasting blessing and constant presence of the 
Almighty to be with your Worship. So prays 

Your humble servant, 

Daniel Morse, Sen'r, 

" Sherborne, 26, 11, 1675-6. In the name of my sons. 

" Granted for the present." (See also p. 24.) 

Although only one house was burnt in S. by the enemy, the inhabi- 
tants suffered the loss of 5 or 6 lives, (see p. '79 and 264) and of pro- 
perty to such an amount that they were included in the act of the G. C. 
ordering them and the people of Medfield a remittance of £120. 

Sherborn 1676-7. — March 15th — Then was Obediah Morse chosen 
to keep the Records of Sherborn. It was the mind of the Inhabitants 
and their desire that Capt. Fisher should be treated with, that He would 
be helpful, or undertake the settlement of the Plantation. 

G. C. Record, Jan. 24th, 1676, [pr. 1676-7.]— It being pro- 
pounded in Court at Nonantum to have a parcel of land belonging to 
Natick encompassed by Mr. Danforth, Goodman Death and John Stone, 
on three parts, it was consented that this parcel shall be included with 
the land Sherborn men have in exchange from Natick. This tract was 
bounded W. by Washacum and Farm ponds, now in Fram., N. by Sud. 
River, E. by the lands of Stone and Death which lay W. of Cochituate 
lake and brook. Death's farm was subsequently annexed to S. 

1676. — 2d m. 13th day — Assembled to prepare for the exchange of 
Land between Natick and Sherborn, as encouragement has been given 
at the Court by Mr. Eliot and Major Gookin. 

3d month, 9th day. — At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Sherborn, 

The Committee chosen by the General Court being then with us The 

Committee enquiring where was the place intended for a Meetinghouse. 
It was then voted and agreed on that the place intended for a Meetinghouse 
should be on a parcel of Land joining or bordering on the Land of the 
late Nicolas Wood and Capt. Hull's Farm. — Capt Hull's house stood a 
few rods W. of Mr. Thos. Bickford's, and the spot agreed upon was on 
the top of the hill about 20 rods N. E. of the New South burying ground. 

Voted that propositions should be made to Maj. Gookin and Mr. 
Eliot and to the Indians in referring to the exchange of Lands between 
Natick and Sherborn, as to give Fifty Pounds in current pay and as 
much Land as a Committee of the General Court shall think meet. 

Report of the Committee of the General Court. 

At a General Court held at Boston, 28th of May, 1677. 
We, whose names are subscribed, being appointed by the Gen. Court 
to consider the case referring to the petition of Sherborn about exchang- 



280 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

in"- of Lands with the Indians and other things contained in that Peti- 
tion, in pursuant whereof & obedience whereunto, being desired by Sher- 
born the 1st of the III mo., 1677, when we expected major Gookin & 
Mr. Eleot with some Indians : but waiting some time, only two Indians 
came with a paper from Mr. Eliot, by which we understood nothing was 
likely to be done. But taking notice of the order referring to the pur- 
chasing the Plantation, we find there is but little or no Country Land 
near the place where they intend to sett their Meetinghouse. 

2d. " As to the farmes adjacent we conceive all those, in Medfield 
bounds that were granted by this Court and received nothing from Med- 
field, shall be accounted and liable to all charges and take up priviledges 
in Sherborn : those in Natick bounds, all the Petitioners Lands shall be 
accounted Inhabitants in Sherborn, and all other Farms that are nighest 
Sherborn Meetinghouse, shall be likewise in the bounds of Sherborn, 
and do duty and receive priviledges therein : but we doubt whether 
they be like to a Town, if some considerable tract of Land be 
not procured from the Indians, either by exchange or purchase or both. 
Your Honors humble servants, 

Daniel Fisher, 
Richard Ellice, 
Thomas Thurston. 
23 3mo. (77) 
The Court approves of this Returne provided always, that the tract 
of waste Lands, situate and lying indifferently accommodable for Sud- 
bury and Marlborough as well as Sherborn and are now belonging to 
Thomas Danforth, Esq., Dep. Governor, be excepted. 

A true Coppy. Attest, Edward Rawson, Secretary. 
Sherborn, July 31, 1677.— Voted and agreed to hj all of us from 
this time to improve the Liberty of a Town in a Civil Body that the 
honored Court and Laws of our Country gives to us. At this meeting 
it was voted that Edward West, as Sergeant, should take the care of the 
Military in Sherborn. 

7 mo. — Voted if any of the Inhabitants shall neglect to attend Town 
meetings appointed and being warned of it, shall be under the penalty 
of 3s. 4d. for every such offence, to be for Town use. 

G. C. Rec, Oct. 7, 1678.— Granted Sherborn inhabitants freedom 
from one single rate in a year during the term of three years now next 
coming, provided they be supplied with an able minister there. 

Sh., 1677— 8th Month 26th day. Then was consultation and con- 
sideration in way of preparation for a Minister, &c. 

Voted to raise thirty pounds per year by the present Inhabitants, one 
third part to be paid in money, and two thirds to be in current country 
pay as may be raised by us. N. B. Only 15 persons were present 
when the above vote passed. 

Sherborn, '78—11 mo.— 1 day .—Voted that five men be chosen as Se- 
lectmen, Daniel Morse, sen., Geo. Fairbanks, Edw. West, Thomas Eames, 
Obediah Morse chosen to keep the Records or as a Clark. N. B. This 
was the first time the Town chose Selectmen who stood for 10 years. 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 281 

Voted That the first second day of January should be from year to 
year held to be a public meeting for the public affairs of S. 

Sh., 1779. — 13th mo. In reference to the settleing a Minister ; 
Voted, that we shall pay to the Maintenance of the Minister .£40 per 
year by the Inhabitants ; £20 in money & £20 in good country pay as 
is most suitable to the Minister and to build a suitable house. 

Voted, that Daniel Morse, sen., Thomas Eames, Henry Lealand, and 
Edward West be chosen as a committee to act as the town for the set- 
tleing the Minister amongst us, Mr. Gooking or some other Minister as 
God shall direct. 

Voted, to Ewd. West that in case he do stay in Sherburn one year 
from the date hereof then he shall have that land and meadow formerly 
granted to him by the Town, in the same state as the Petitioners land 
is ; if the Town have not a Minister settled. If there be a Minister 
settled, then to be in the same state and condition with other Inhab- 
itants. 

July 18th. — At a meeting &c. to choose a Committee to treat with 
Mr. Nathaniel Gookings to settle amongst us. Then was chosen this 
Committee, Daniel Morse, sen., George Fairbanks, Thomas Eames, En- 
sign Bullen, to act representing the Town to engage & settle a Minister 
amongst us. 

7 mo. 18th.— Voted, That this Committee Capt. Prentice, Deacon 
John Stone, & Mr. William Bond which are chosen by the Councell 12th 
present month to act according to the Law published since the last ses- 
sion, in 19th this present month this Committee conserning the plape 
they have determined for the settled place for the Meetinghouse. For 
their satisfaction desiring should be voted by the Inhabitants of the 
town, the place voted was and thereby determined on a hill. Mr. the 
Committee and the Inhabitants made a second stand to look about on 
that account near Edwards Plain. 

8 mo. 29. — Then was chosen four Men to be undertakers for our- 
selves in building a suitable House for a Minister, viz. Edward West, 
Thomas Eames, Joseph Morse & John Hill, these 4 to call others to as- 
sist in that work as they shall see meet, and as Men are capable to help. 
Also, that all shall bear equal charges on their house Lots according to 
their proportion of Acres. 

And concerning the Ministers House that is to be built it is voted and 
concluded that it shall be built according as is agreed with the 4 Men 
chosen as undertakers to see it done. The length 38 feet the breath 20 
feet. 

It was also concluded that the undertakers shall see that this House 
be covered and inclosed by the last of May next ; and that this house 
be thoroughly finished by the last of September next. 

Also, that the place concluded upon by the Committee for the Meet- 
inghouse near Edwards plain be reserved for the accommodation thereof 
to the quantity of 20 rods square as may suit. 



2«2 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 



SOCIAL COMPACT OF SHERBORN ADOPTED. 

1679. u For as much as the further promulgation of the Gospel, the 
subdueing this part of the Earth, among the rest given to the Sons of 
Adam, and the enlargement of the bounds of the habitations formerly 
designed by God for some of His people in this wilderness ; It hath 
pleased the Lord to move and direct the much Honoured Gen. Court to 
grant a tract of land in the land adjoining to or near the place called 
Bogestow 'with the Farms therein laid as is judged a meet place for the 
erecting and settleing of a Town." 

" We the persons whose names are next under written, for the pre- 
vention of questions and mistakes, disorders and contentions that 
might otherwise arise, do order and determine and resolve as fol- 
lowed." 

1. " That all persons whatsoever, that shall receive lands by grant 
from the said Town now called Sherborne, shall become subject to all 
such Orders in every part and point of Town Government, as are at 
present, or hereafter by the authority of the said Town shall be made 
and appointed for the ordering, regulating, or governing thereof: Pro- 
vided they be not repugnant to the Orders, or any Orders of the general 
Court from time to time. And that every such Grantee, shall for the 
firm engagement of himself and his successors, thereunto subscribe his 
name to our Town Book, or otherwise, his grant made to him shall be of 
none effect." 

2. " That if questions, differences, or contentions should fall out or 
arise in any manner or way in our Society, or betwixt any party therein ; 
that they shall really endeavour, to resolve and issue the same even in the 
most practicable way and manner, by Refference, Arbitration, or some 
other like means before it shall come to any place of publick Judicature 
except it be in our own Town." 

3. " That we shall all of us in the said Town faithfully endeavour 
that only such shall be received to our society and Township as we 
may have sufficient satisfaction that they are honest, peaceable, and free 
from Scandal and erroneous opinions." 

4. " That none of the inhabitants aforesaid or our successors at any 
time hereafter for the space of seven years from the date hereof upon 
any pretence whatsoever without the consent of the Selectmen for the 
time being first had and obtained, shall alienate, Let, assign or set over 
for the space of seven whole years any part or parcel of Land formerly 
granted to him or them by the Town, except to some formerly accepted 
of by our society ; always provided that this shall in no sort prejudice or 
hinder any Heirs at Common Law." (signed) 

Edward West, Daniel Gookin, Ephraim Bullen, Benjamin Bullard, 
William Sheffield, Moses Adams, John Holbrook, Joseph Morse, Benj. 
Twitchell, Jonathan Whitney, Jr., Thomas Holbrook, Joseph Twitchell, 
Eleazer Wood, Jonathan Morse, Abraham Cusanes, Thomas Hol- 
brook, Jr., John Death, Walter Shephard, William Rider, John 
Perry, Benoni Learned, Eleazer Fairbanks, Hopestill Lealand, Nathan 



HISTORY OP SHERBORN. 283 

iel Morse, Obediah Morse, Thomas Sawin, William Goddard, Thomas 
Breck, Benjamin Whitney, Ebenezer Lealand, Nathaniel Johnson, John 
Coolidge. 

1679. — Articles of agreement between Daniel Morse, sen., Thomas 
Eames, Henry Lealand and Obediah Morse in behalf of the Town of 
Sherborne on the one part. Wabon, Pimbow, Thomas Tray, John 
Awonssamage, sen., Peter Ephraim and Daniel Takawombpait on be- 
half of the Town of Natick on the other part, concluded and agreed 
upon this sixteen day of April, 1679. 

Whereas, It hath pleased the general Court by their Order bearing 
date May 12th, 1679, to give leave to the People of Sherborn to pur- 
chase by way of exchange, from the people of Natick, a quantity of 
Land belonging to Natick, for their furtherance and promoting of Sher- 
born Plantation. 

2. The people of Sherborne above named in behalf of the rest, do de- 
sire about Four Thousand Acres as it is Plotted, described and bounded 
on the Northeast with Natick : on the Southeast Southwest and West 
by Sherborn, on the West and Northwest with a Farm belonging to 
Mr. Danforth. 

3. In compensation for the same, they agree to give by way of ex- 
change the like quantity of Land be it 4,000 acres more or less, lying 
and being adjoining to Mauguncoog Indian Hill, which Land was grant- 
ed unto Sherborn by the general Court of Massachusetts ; moreover 
they do promise and covenant to pay unto the persons above named, 
their Heirs or Assigns, the full and just quantity of 200 bushels of In- 
dian Grain to be paid one half in hand or at demand, and the other half 
the last of March next ensuing. Moreover, they are willing that Peter 
Ephraim do enjoy the Land he hath broken up within that Tract of 
Land they are to have of Natick, at a place called Brush Hill, and to 
add thereunto so much more as may make the Lot 12 Acres, with an 
equal proportion of Meadow, to enjoy to him the said Peter Ephraim 
and his Heirs and Assigns forever ; but to be under the government of 
the Township of Sherborne as the English Are. 

4th, Also, Ave agree & consent that on the Lands we are to have of 
Natick there be a Lot of Fifty Acres sett out where the Commissioners 
of the Colonies, Major Gookin and Mr. Eliott, and Indian Rulers shall 
choose within that Tract of Land, to be appropriated forever to the use 
of a free School for teaching the English and Indian Children there, th« 
English Tongue & other Sciences. 

In witness whereof, &c. 
Witnessed by Daniel Gookin, 
Nathl. Gookin, 
Edw'd. West. 

Signed as above. 
Coppy attested by Daniel Gookin, Senr. 
In answer to a motion in behalf of Sherborn Inhabitants this Court 
does ratify and allow of the exchange of Lands made as abovesaid. 

Attest, Edward Rawson, Secretanj. 



284 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

'79. — At a meetting of the Inhabitants of Sherborne, in reference to 
exchange of Land with Natick : for the paying of 200 bushels of Corn to 
boot, &c. 18 persons present. 

Daniel Morse for his Farm do engage 25 bushels of Indian Corn this 
year. Thomas Eames and that Corner of the Town, 25 bushels. Henry 
Lealand 25 bushels, others assisting him — and in case the other quarter 
cannot be defrayed, then Obediah Morse do engage for the other quar- 
ter upon the desire and promise others to bear him out in either Corn 
in wheat or money ; to be paid wheat at 5s. per bushel, money at reason- 
able abatement." Ensign Bullen and Henry Lealand are chosen a 
Committee with the Selectmen to grant home Lots to those that are 
come amongst us. 

Sherborne granteth to such as shall make a sawmill on a Brook [Bog- 
istow, where the cotton mill stands in Hoi.] about half a mile on this 
side the corner [Jasper] rock that was Natick bounds, the sum of 50 
Acres of upland adjoining to that brook, and 3 or 4 Acres of Meadow, if 
it may be found upon that Brook as may be convenient — also 10 Acres 
of Swamp, the Cedar timber excepted. This sawmill to be built by the 
end of 12 months, and be continued three years, or as the Selectmen 
then in being, and the owners shall agree. So the Land to be settled to 
the owners. This offer seems to have been accepted by Samuel Lind 
of Boston, who early built a corn mill upon it. 

'79 — 9rao. 29 — Thomas Sawin is accepted as one of the new inhabi- 
tants at Chestnut Brook, to take up a first Lot, as may be convenient for 
building a Sawmill on it. This is where the late Galim Bullard lived. 
This mill stood a few rods below the mill of Mr. Isaac Cozens. 

1679. — Daniel Morse, sen., and Joseph Morse and another, were 
chosen to treat with a minister for settlement. 

1680. — Ensign Saml. Bullen & George Fairbanks, refusing to take 
the oath of Tytheingmen, the Selectmen, in obedience to the Law, do 
choose Thomas Holbrook to have inspection over those families at the 
widow Lealand, Hopestill Lealands, &c, 10 Families. And Joseph 
Morse as tytheingman to inspect over Eleazer Fairbanks and 5 other 
Families. 

Difficulties of a serious nature had now arisen, the nature of which we 
are left in part to infer from the action of the Court. The inhabitants 
at the S. end had insisted on the place first staked, for the meeting-house 
and roads referred to on proprietors' records, had been laid from that 
place to remote parts of the town. They had as yet obtained no minis- 
ter, and the condition on which they had been exempted from rates had 
not been complied with. A few lots appear to have been illegally as- 
signed. Daniel Morse, senr., Dea Benoni Learned and others, in 
1680 petitioned the G. C, imploring " aid that they may be relieved of 
their difficulties, professing a desire to settle a pious and able minister, 
without which their hopeful plantation would be ruined, and they and 
their wives and children be forced either to live like heathen, without 
God's Sabbaths and ordinances, or remove." 

G. C. Rec, May, 1680. — " In answer to the petition of the inhabi- 
tants of S., Maj. Thos. Savage, Mr. Bartholomew Gedney, Capt. Hutch- 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 285 

enson, Mr. Joseph Lind and Mr. Joseph Cook, are appointed a Com- 
mittee, and required to repair to S. and settle all differences depending 
among said inhabitants, and give such directions as to them shall seem 
meete for ordering of their prudentials ; and what any four of them shall 
agree upon, shall be valid for the determining of such controversies as 
are among them, and what they shall do herein they are to make return 
thereof to the present session. (" Which they did, and is on file, not 
perfected.") 

1680.— June 2d— At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Sherborne to 
attend the consultation of the honored Committee, Major Savage, with the 
other Gent, of that Committee — did then agree before them and en- 
gage to lay down of their lands for needful highways for the use of the 
Town, and to choose a Committee to lay them out. 

On the return of the Committee, and the rendition of their report, the 
G. C, June 11, 1680, say : — 

There appearing something necessary to be further donne with refer- 
ence to^ the settlement of Sherborne Towne, and the well ordering the 
prudentialls thereof, and some dissatisfaction with reference to the 
placing the meeting-house, this Court, judging it necessary to remove 
all obstructions that may hinder their quiet and peaceable proceeding, 
doe appoint and impower Wm. Stoughton, Tho. Savage, and John 
Richards, Esqs., a committee to order and governe the prudentialls of 
the said towne for three years next commencing, as to laying out lotts, 
and raysing of taxes. 

From the above date until June 11, 1684, the town was placed under 
loving guardianship, and submitted like an affectionate and dutiful 
ward. 

October 12th.— Reckoned with Thomas Sawin for his work about the 
Meetinghouse for framing the Meetinghouse and provideing Boards, 
Shingles and Clapboards, and making Windows and Doors according to 

bargain about the Meetinghouse, £50 

For Boards and his work laying the Floor of do. 3 

Daniel Morse, sen., John Hill, Benj. Bullard, John Death with the 
Selectmen, are chosen to seat the Meeting when seats are made. 

1680.— 9th mo. 15. The Committee that formerly was chosen and 
impowered to act as the town for the settling Mr. Gookin or some other 
Minister as God should direct, making their, return to the town that ex- 
cept the Inhabitants do agree to what was done by that Committee in 
'79, 7 mo. they see no likely hood of obtaining Mr. Daniel Gookin to 
settle among us. 

_ Voted, that John Hill, Thomas Holbrook & George Fairbanks is de- 
sired to assist a Committee to settle a gospel Orthodox Minister on the 
place obtained for a Minister according to what is voted by the town for 
Ministers maintenance, &c. Edward West chosen Town Clerk. 

1681.— Voted, that Daniel Morse, senr., Joseph Morse, and Edward 
West are chosen to treat with Mr. Cusheon or some other Minister to 
settle in Sherborne. And Thomas Holbrook was chosen to go to speak 



286 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

to Mr. Cuslieon for an answer from him in reference to his settleing in 
Sherborne. * * 

1681. — April 29. Whereas we the Inhabitants of Sherborn having 
formerly applied ourselves to the Rev. Daniel Gookin to be our settled 
Minister of Sherborn, he was pleased to give us his mind and word and 
writing to be willing to come amongst us, provided that we could agree 
to have the Meetinghouse on that place appointed by Capt. Prentice, 
but some not willing for it, did put us upon further trouble and the im- 
peding that work amongst us wherefore having a meeting of the inha- 
bitants & proposals being made if ***** would adhere to the settling a 
Minister on that place commonly amongst us called the Lot place, we, 
being desirous of not only the settleing a Minister amongst us, but also 
peace and concord, did yield to the motion, and made choice of some of 
those that did oppose our former proceeding to act accordingly ; but 
now we perceiving their fruitless endeavors in that respect, and being 
desireous, if God permit, to have one amongst us to break the bread of 
life to us and ours, and especially the Rev. Mr. Daniel Gookin, do if 
authority permit of it, bind ourselves to these particulars under written 
in the full sum of Ten pounds Sterling to be paid by us upon every wil- 
ful neglect or refusal. 

1st, That application be made to the Rev Mr. Daniel Gookin, to be 
the settled Minister of Sherborn, by those three Men the town have 
lately made choice of to Settle a Minister in Sherborn, viz. : Daniel 
Morse , senr., Joseph Morse & Edward West, with as much speed as 
may be. 

2d, That in case Mr. Gookin do agree to come amongst us, we do 
engage to pay to him annually as the Town in general have voted, viz. 
twenty pounds in money, and twenty pounds in country pay, such as we 
raise among ourselves, and such as the Minister wants, at such prises as 
go from man to man amongst ourselves : as also when the Minister hath 
a family or the people increase in the Town by the addition of new 
Families considerably, then to augment his allowance and this to continue 
with the help of such as may by Law be brought in to pay, during our 
abode in Sherborn. 

3d, That the house for the Minister, in the place where it now stands, 
be fitted and finished conveniently to dwell in, and one Acre of Land to 
be broken up and fenced in a town charge ; and this House and Land 
as it is now in part lotted out shall be given to him the said Mr. Gookin, 
and his heirs forever, provided he do engage himself to us to be our set- 
tled, constant Minister, together with his interest in common Lands as 
other inhabitants. 

4th, We do agree that when we do build our Meetinghouse it shall 
stand where it was ordered and agreed, near Edwards Plain. 

Finally, We do agree that all those above written charges shall be 
raised according to the Town vote viz. by heads & estates ratable in the 
country Invoice, and do also agree that all forfeitures that shall be made 
as above said shall be paid to the Minister towards his yearly mainte- 
nance. To these above said particulars we do bind us and our heirs in 



HISTORY OP SHERBORN. 287 

the sum above said firmly and do make of the Men above •written to see 
to the execution of this agreement of ours according to the true intent 
thereof. In witness whereof -we have putt to our hands, dated 29th 
.April 1681. 

Daniel Morse, Senr. Thos. Gleason, 

John Hill, Edward West, 

Thos. Holbrook, Joseph Morse, 

Moses Adams, Benoni Learned, 

Ephraim Bullen, Nathl. Morse, 

John Death, Daniel Morse, Jr., 

Thos. Sawin, Ebenezer Lealand, 

John Eames, Jonathan Morse, 

Isaac Lealand, John Perry, 

Zachari Padleford, Jonathan Whitney, 

Obadiah Morse, Ebenezer Fairbanks. 

Benj. Bullard objected to the 4th Article. 

I whose name is here subscribed do freely and fully engage to remain 
in the work of the Ministry at Sherborn so long as I can live in said 
place so as to attend my work without distraction. 

Daniel Gookin, Jr. 

This note has no date but was pr. written soon after Apl. 29, 1681. 

1681. — July 4th — George Fairbanks proposed to resign up to the 
Town all his rights and Interests in Sherborn with all his former charges 
from the first petitioning provided they would free him from Sherborne. 

1681. — 8 mo. 27 — Voted by the Inhabitants that there shall be a 
division of so much of our common Land as is judged meet for a divi- 
dend by Daniel Morse, Thomas Holbrook, Jonathan Whitney, John 
Death, and Joseph Morse, If our honored Committee approve of it. 
Also a Committee -was chosen to acquaint the honored Committee with 
the state of the Town as to the accommodation of the new Inhabitants, 
and intreat their power and advice which way this Dividend shall be 
laid out. Also the Committee to obtain a Survey to' lay out this 
Land. Each man shall choose his Lot : and if 2, 3, 4 or more 
shall pitch upon one place, then they to draw Lots who shall have that 
Lot. Each man that shall take up Land shall pay the charges of the 
laying out his Lot. If any Man do mislike his Lot : then he to 
choose his Lot out of any part of any of the Towns upland without 
circumference. 

Boston, Nov. 3d, 1681. 
Having perused and considered the first vote above written concern- 
ing a division of common Land in Sherborne, We the Committee for 
that Town do approve and confirm the same, And for the way thereof 
We advise that it be first divided into 4 parts, to lye to each quarter of 
the Town according as they shall find it most convenient as to vicinity, 
respect being had to the quality of the land, that there may be an equality 



288 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

in each quarter as much as may be ; Then each quarter or squad- 
ron of the Town to divide their part amongst themselves by lot. We fur- 
ther order, that before any division be made of upland, such new inhab- 
itants as have not had proportionable meadow already allowed them, shall 
have due shares alloted and laid out to them. And according to a former 
vote of the Town, we adjudge the new Inhabitants to pay two shillings per 
Acre upon their home lots, towards public charges, and then for the 
future to be equally rated with the rest. 

(Signed,) Thomas Savage, John Richards, William Stoughton. 

1682. — Granted to John Awasamug 20 acres of Land, to clear all 
Indian Titles that concern the Land exchanged between Natick and 
Sherborne. 

A list of persons admitted to be Inhabitants of Sherborn since its in- 
corporation with the dates of admission : 

Ensign Samuel Bullen, Thomas Pratt, sen., 2 mo. 1679 

Edward West, William Sheffield, May 1679 

Jos. Morse, Zacry Paddleford, 2 mo. 1679 

John Perry, John Eames, " " 1679 

William Allen, Isaac Learned, " " 1679 

Thomas Eeames, Jan. 4, 1674 Thomas Pratt, Jr. " " 1679 

John Death, 11 mo. 1. 1677 Thomas Sawin, 9 mo. 29 1679 

Thomas Gleason, 8 mo. 5. 1678 Jonathan Whitney, 1679 

Hopestill Lealand. 11— 1 1678 Will. Goddard, " " 1679 

Ebenexer Lealand " " 1678 Bononi Learned, " " 1679 

Joseph Twitchell, " " 1678 Will. Rider, " " 1679 

G. C. Rec, Oct. 11, 1682. Whereas there is about 50 soldiers at 
Sherborne, in probability they will increase to a greater number in a 
short time, and they having no higher officer than a Sarjant, it is or- 
dered by this Court and the authority thereof that Sargeant Edward 
West be Leiftenant to the said company and Jonathan Morse, Ensign ; 
and they are to choose two sarjants, a drummer and dark for the said 
company according as the law directs ; and that the said company do be- 
long to the regiment of Maj. Gookin and ye secretary is ordered to issue 
both commissions for them. 

G. C, Rec, May 17,1684. " In ans. to the petition of Tho. Hol- 
brooke, Edward West, selectmen for the towne of Sherborne, it is 
ordered that the grant of land unto the inhabitants and others at or 
near Boggestow shall be and hereby is confirmed unto them according 
to the plat now before the Court dated, 25 (3 mo.) 1677, signed Thos. 
Thirston, provid always it doe not intrench upon former grants to any 
toune or particular persons, and it is ordered that the name of the toune 
be Sherborne and that it belongs to the County of Middlesex." 

N. B. The great delay of the usual act of confirmation doubtless 
arose from the confused state of the town and their tardiness in comply- 
ing with the conditions of their incorporation. 

1684. — Decern. 8. — "Voted by the Inhabitants of S., being assembled, 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 289 

that the difference that is now between John Hill, J. Eames & John 
Death for catching Wolves, it shall be referred to the Ilond. Deputy 
Governor and Major Gookin to issue the Cause between them. 

1694. — June 4 — Edward West was chose Schoolmaster for S. 

1695. — Feb. 3d — At a meeting of the Inhabitants of S. for to con- 
sider and conclude of a inlardgment of our Town bounds by our * * * * 
of some of Naticks land that joins to the farm of Henry Rice to make 
one Township. 

It was concluded by the Inhabitants, met this day, that we shall go on 
to lay that tract of land that is taken in platt with a inlargement to 
the farm of Henry llice, and those Farmers that are willing to join in 
our Township according as offers have been made to themselves as also 
to procure a surveyor to run a straight line from the south Corner of 
Henry Pace's Farm to the Cartway crossing Cochituate Brook near 
where Course Brook meets with Cochituate Brook the charges of the 
whole to be borne by the Town of S. The Selectmen are chosen a 
Committee to see this work carried on for the benefit of the Town. 

1700. — June 25. — The town of Framingham was incorporated and 
seventeen Families belonging to Sherborn were annexed to that Town. 
" A controversy soon arose between S. and F. respecting certain rights 
and privileges, which was at last settled without legal process." — [See 
Barry's His. of Fram.J 

1705-6 — Jan. 8th. — Was granted £20, for the repairing and better 
finishing the Meetinghouse. The Committee chosen were Sergt. Sawin, 
Lt. Joseph Morse, Deacon Benoni Learned, Corpl. Isaac Learned and 
Richard Sanger. 

1707. — May 28th — Ordered, That whosoever should take bring or 
convey any Cattle from other towns to feed on the Commons in S., and 
such Cattle being taken up ; the Person or persons who conveyed the 
said Cattle into Town, or the owner of them sd pay a fine of 5s. per 
head, the one moiety to the person who took them up and the other 
moiety to the use of the Town. 

These orders were allowed of by the Court of quarter Sessions at 
Concord, June 17th, 1707, till further order. 

ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH. 

Public worship was first set up at the house of Cpt. Joseph Morse, and 
there continued until the meeting-house was finished ; and he received a 
grant from the town for accommodating the congregation. 

The existing records of the Church begin Oct. 27, 1734. They 
give no account of the formation of the Chh. ; but the MSS. of Judge 
Sewall contain the following notice of its origin : 

" Thursday, Mar., 1685. Went to the gathering of the Church in 
Sherborne, & ordaining of Mr. Daniel Gookin, their Pastor. But six 
Brethren & three of the name of Mors.* Mr. Willson [of Boston,] Mr. 

* The other three brethren were pr. Itenj. Bullard, Tho. Holbrook & Benoni 
Learned. 

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290 HISTORY OF SHEKBORN. 

Adams [of Dedham,] Mrs. Nathaniel Gookin [of Cambridge,] managed 
the -work. Mr. Nathl. Gookin, ye younger, introduced ye elder — a 
happy type of ye calling of ye Jews ; Mr. Torry [of Weymouth,] 
Brinsmeade [of Boston,] Fisk [of Braintree,] Esterbrook [of Lexing- 
ton,] Mann [of Wrentham,] Moody [of Boston,] Hubbard [or Hobart, 
of Newton,] Nehcmiah Sherman [of Watertown,] Woodrop [of Lan- 
caster,] Rawson, Grendal [ofMendon,] Willson, Junr., [of Medfield,] 
there, and the fellows of the College. Only Maj. Generall & self of 
the magistrates. No relations were made, but I hope God was with 
them." 

1707. — May 29. At a meeting of the Selectmen it was ordered, 
that each person in town, for the Pool or Pools he or she is rated for, 
shall cut and carry to the house of the Rev. Mr. Gookin, one half Cord 
of wood per poll ; and each and every person who neglect to perform as 
aforesaid shall pay a Fine of 2 Shillings per poll to the use of said 
Minister. 

Oct. 23. — Voted to hire a minister while March next and that Mr. 
Baker be the man to supply Mr. Gookings Pulpit, now in the time of 
his restraint, if he may be obtained. 

1708-9. — March 7th — At a Town meeting, &c. It was then mani- 
fested to the town what had been offered to the Hon. General Court by 
our Representative Saml. Bullard concerning the seventeen Families on 
the north part of the Town : with the acceptance and Concurance of 
the Court therewith : and was consented to by a general vote. 

G. C. Rec, June 3, 1715. — Upon the reading a petition of Joseph 
Morse, representative and the selectmen of the Town of Sherborn in be- 
half of the said town, praying that a Piatt of 4,000 acres of land there- 
with exhibited, laid out and protracted by Thomas White, surveyer, pur- 
suant to a grant of this Court at their session in June, 1710, on the 
West side of Mendon may be confirmed to the said Town. Voted a 
concurrence with the order passed thereon in the House of Representa- 
tives, viz : The plat having been presented for confirmation and viewed 
and inspected by this House. 

Ordered, that the land therein described be allowed and granted and 
confirmed to the town of Sherborn as an equivalent for the 17 families 
laid to Framingham, mentioned in the plat provided it intrench upon 
no former grant. Consented to. J. Dudley. 

Sh. June 17, 1715. — Voted, That the Invoice of Polls and ratable 
Estate taken in August 1714, shall be the Rule whereby the said 4000 
Acres of Land granted and confirmed to the town by the G. C, shall be 
proportioned to and among the present Inhabitants being freeholders and 
such other inhabitants that have lived upon hire in the Town for some 
years past. 

The above-mentioned New Grant was divided amongst 105 Persons 
"being Freeholders and such other Inhabitants that have lived upon 
hire." December 29th, 1721, the proprietors granted to Ephraim Hill 
and his heirs forever, 20 acres of Land in the said 4000 acres, in con- 
sideration of his being the first settled Inhabitant there. 



HISTORY OE SHERBORN. 291 

Two further grants of G700 acres, now in Douglas, were obtained of 
the General Court by purchase. In 1730, these Lands were divided 
among the Inhabitants of S. in the same manner as the other Grant had 
been. 

1710. — Dec. 11. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Sherborn, 
Capt. Joseph Morse & Deacon Benoni Learned, Moderators. 

Then it was put to the Inhabitants by the said Moderators that inas- 
much as the work of the Ministery is apparently two hard for our Rev. 
and worthey Pastor, Mr. Daniel Gooking, he being a Crazie and infirm 
man and well stricken in years, whither they were willing to give the 
Rev. Mr. Baker a call or invitation to settle with us in this Town in the 
work of Gospel Service as an assistant to our Rev. Pastor aforesaid ; 
and after some debate on the matter it being put to try the minds of 
the inhabitants it was voted verry fully on the affirmative to give the 
Rev. Mr. Daniel Baker a call to settle in Gospel Service as an assistant 
to our Rev. Pastor aforesaid. Voted on the affirmative. 

Also it was voted at said meeting To give the said Mr. Baker a year- 
ly salary of 50 pounds money during the life of our Rev. Pastor and after 
his decease to augment Mr. Baker's Salary if need be. — Voted in the 
affirmative. 

Attest, Jos. Morse, Benoni Learned, Moderators. 

At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Sherborn, April 2d, 1711. Then 
the Rev. Mr. Daniel Gookin was pleased to exhibit the following: 

" I have formerly as is well known, and several of the leading Men 
of the Town can testifie, yielded to sink ten pounds of the country part 
of my Salary for the encourageing of the Town to proceed in yt. weigh- 
ty design that they have been lately upon, and are not yet come to a 

full conclusion about But it hath been signified to me that what I 

did (and that freely) would not be accepted of by those to whom the offer 
was made, or at least it would not be accepted of by the Town : but if I 
thought it would not be imagined that I had a mind to force the Town 
to an acceptance of it, I would say that I do freely give back to the 
Town ten pounds of the country part of my yearly Salary, which they 
may improve for the encouragement of the Rev. Gentleman whom they 
are treating withall with reference to a settlement : in case they canob- 
tain him, otherwise if I must still carry on the whole work, as formerly, I 
do desire, and it is best meet that it should return to me and be paid to me 
as formerly — thus wishing Heaven to guide you in what is this day be- 
fore you, I take leave and rest your assured friend, 

Daniel Gookin." 

This being publickly read at the said meeting it was gratefully ac- 
cepted of by the Town. 

• Attest, Wm. Rider, Town Cleric. 

1711. — Sept. 17. At a meeting to consider upon some proposals that 
the Rev. Mr. Baker hath made to said Town about the advancement of 
his sallary after the Rev. Daniel Gookins decease. Voted to advance 
Rev. Daniel Bakers Sallary to the sum of seventy Pounds per Annum 
immediately after the decease of our Rev. Paster. 



292 HISTORY OF SHERBORN,. 

These, with other inducements, as 1st, the sincere concurrance of ye 
Rev. Daniel Gookin, with the church & Town in ye above mentioned 
affair ; as also the generosity of the good People of said Sherborne, in 
subscribing liberally towards building and settleing of the Rev. Daniel 
Baker aforesaid, together with the land yt is offered to him for a settle- 
ment, and the good Council and advice of several of the Rev. Elders, 
our common friends and well wishers, hath prevailed with the Rev. 
Gentleman to give the following Answer to the Invitation given him to 
settle in the Gospel service in said town. 

To the Committees of the Church and Town of Sherborn, To be 
communicated to the Church and Town. 

Reverend and dearly beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ. It is now a 
considerable time since you have given me an invitation to settle with you 
in the glorious Gospel of peace, and it is with no small importunity that 
you have for some time pressed for an Answer to your desires. The 
w r eightiness of the work you have asked me to- engage in, with some other 
things I have had under consideration, will atone for my delaying an 
answer so long. I hope I have not been backward in seeking direction 
from the All-wise Counsellor, nor have I been wanting in asking the 
advice of several of the Rev. Elders, our common Friends and well- 
wishers, whose Counsel I highly esteem. I am at length (though not 
without a deep sense of the weightiness of the work you have called me 
unto, and my own utter insufficiency therefor, and to answer what possibly 
you may expect, for who is sufficient for these things !) persuaded to 
accept of and embrace your Invitation, acknowledging the encourage- 
ment you have proposed. And do signify to you my resolution (in 
convenient time) to come and abide with you in Gospel service, so long 
as you shall afford me gospel Encouragement, which, as you will doubt- 
less conclude, I should charitably believe you will not fail to do, so you 
will not take it amiss that I assure you that I expect it. 

Thus promising myself that you will not fail to ask for me at the 
throne of Grace all suitable and seasonable enlargements of the holy 
Spirit of Grace, that I may come to you in the fulness of the blessing of 
the Gospel, and that all my ministrations amongst you may be continually 
accompanied with the allpowerfull influences of God's Spirit as a means 
to the conversion and edification of Souls. To the gracious guidance of 
the same holy Spirit I commend you, and rest yours in Gospel service. 

Daniel Baker. 

Dedham, Dec. 29th, 1711. 

1711-12.— Jan. 14th. At a meeting, Voted that Rev. Daniel 
Baker's Answer be verry gratefully excepted, and the Town renders 
thanks to him for his good intentions towards them, and do freely concur 
and take up with his said Answer. 

At the same meeting a committee w r as chosen to take care about what 
is subscribed towards the Building for Rev. Daniel Baker, that it be 
regularly and orderly performed. 

The only reported publications of Mr. Baker were two Fast Day ser- 



HISTORY OF SIIERBORN. 293 

mons, one preached at Dedh., 1726, and the other at S., 1727, which 
make an 18mo vol. of 164 pages. His dedication of the latter dis- 
course to his people illustrates his style and the condition of both pastor 
and flock in his day. 

"Beloved Friends, — It is now more than Seventeen Years since you 
first Invited me to Preach to you, and above Fourteen since my Inau- 
guration into the Office of Pastor to you, as an assistant to my worthy 
Predecessor, the Rev. Mr. Grookin ; whose Company and Help in the 
great Work I had undertaken, I so much prized, that might I have yet 
enjoyed it, I have often thought that I could have been contented with 
the smaU Salary you first gave me. But a righteous God has ordered 
it otherwise ; However much to My loss, yet undoubtedly to Eis great 
Gain and Advantage. It is now more than Ten Years that I have had 
the whole Pastoral Care of you. And it has been in Weakness and 
in much Fear that I have been with you. Yet I have this to Comfort 
and Encourage me, that I have reason to hope that my Preaching has 
not beenaltogether in vain to you. God has (and to Him be afl the 
Glory) since my coming amongst you, made a very considerable Addi- 
tion to His Church ; and I am willing to hope of such as shall be saved. 
Moreover, it has been no small Encouragement to me that my Labours 
have found so much Acceptance with you. One Instance of which you 
have now given, in your forwardness to be at the Charge of Printing 
those Sermons which were Preached on Days of Fasting and Prayer 
for Toil and Others. 

It is well known that it is owing to the Repeated and Undeniable 
Request of some of you (especially) that these Sermons are thus come 
to Publick View. Might I have had my own Inclination, and if I had 
no more regard to publick usefulness than my own private Interest, or 
Applause, and had it not been a pain to me to deny you, they had never 
seen the Light. ****** 

I have one Request to you, since I have granted you yours. I must 
freely confess, I don't remember that ever I asked anything of you of- 
an external nature, or on a worldly account, but you always granted it. 
And now my Request is, that you would be earnest in your Prayers to 
God for me, that I may obtain mercy to be Faithful to God and Souls ; 
that my ministry may yet be more successful among you, and that I 
may save my own Soul as well as yours. I am Your Affectionate 
Friend and Servant of your Souls. 

Daniel Baker." 
1^18. — Sept. 26 — A Committee was chosen to inspect the timber at 
Badluck Swamp, within the late grant of 3000 acres of land, and im- 
powered to prosecute any person, or persons, should cut, make strip or 
pillage any wood or timber upon said premises. 

The ensuing Warrant and Rate found among the papers left by my 
gr. grd. father Cuzzens is here inserted as showing the former manner of 
raising support for ministers, and the No. of polls and heads of fam 
ilies in S. in 1721, and also the comparative amount of real and personal 
estate which each possessed. 



294 HISTORY OF S1IERB0RN. 

Midd'x ss. To the Constable or Constables of the Town of Sherborn, 
Within the County of Midd'x & every of them. Greeting. 
In His Majest's Name you are Required to levy and Collect of ye 
Severall persons Named in the list herewith committed unto you, Each 
One his respective proportion (herein Set Down) of the Sum Totall of 
such list ; being a Tax or Assessment made by the Assessors of the said 
Town of Sherborn for the paying our minister the Rev'd Mr. Daniel Ba- 
ker his Salary this present year, according to ye Grant, and agreement 
of the said Town, And to Deliver and pay in the Sum and Sums which 
you shall so Levy and Collect unto Ensign Jno. Death Treasurer of the 
said Town and to Compleat and make up an accompt of your Collections 
of the whole sum, at, on, or before the last Day of March next : 

And if any person or persons shall neglect or refuse to make payment 
of the Sum or Sums whereat he or they are respectively assessed and 
sett in ye said list, to Distrein the Goods or Chattells of such person or 
persons to the Value thereof and the Distress or Distresses So Taken to 
keep by the space of four days at the Cost and Charge of the Owner : 
And if the Owner do not pay the Sum or Sums of Money So Assessed 
upon him Within the said four Days Then the said Distress or Distresses 
So Taken, you are to Expose and Openly Sell at an Out-Cry, for pay- 
ment of the said Money and Charges ; Notice of Such Sale being posted 
up in some publick place within the same Town, Twenty-four hours before- 
hand : And the Overplus coming by the Said Sale (if any be) beside 
the Sum or Sums of the Assesment & the Charges of Taking and keep- 
ing of the Distress and Distresses, to be Emmediately restored to the 
Owner — And for Want of Goods Or Chattels whereon to make Distress, 
you are to Seise the Body or Bodies of the person or persons So refus- 
ing, and him or them commit unto the Common Goal of the said County, 
there to remain until he or they pay and satisfie the severall Sum or Sums 
whereat they are Respectively Assessed as aforesaid ; unless upon 
application made to the Court of Generall Sessions of the peace, the same 
or any part thereof shall be abated. Dated at Sherborn the Sixth Day of 
November In the Eighth year of His Majest's Reign. Annoque Domini 
1721. 

By Order of the Assessors of Sherborn, 

Wm. Rider, Jun'r, Toivn Clerk. 

The Ministers Rate, Anno 1721 [not including aged citizens who 
had pr. settled their estates, nor the Assessors who were also Selectmen, 
but all minors over 18 ys.] 



Upon 


Polls. 


Real & Per'l Estate. 


Sum Total. 




s. d. 


£ s. d. 


£ s. d. 


Ebenezer Lealand, Sen'r 


8 


16 11 


1 4 11 


Ebenezer Lealand, Jun'r, 


4 


10 


14 


James Morse, 


4 


10 2 


14 2 


Joseph Morse, 


8 


9 10 


17 10 


Ebenezer Badcock, 


4 


10 5 


d 14 5 


Joseph Twitchell, 


4 


10 10 


14 10 



HISTORY OF SIIERBORN. 



295 



Upon. 


Polls. 


Real & Pcr'l Estate. 


Sum Total. 




s. 


d. 


£ 


s. 


d. 


£ 


s. 


d. 


Ephraim Twitchell, 


4 








3 


8 





7 


8 


The Widow Twitchell, 











1 


8 





1 


8 


Benja. Bullard, 


8 








6 


8 





14 


8 


Elea'r Hill, Sen'r, 


4 








9 


3 





13 


3 


Elea'r Hill, Jun'r, 


4 








4 








8 





Solomon Hill, 


4 








5 


2 





9 


2 


Nath. Hill, 


4 








2 


8 





6 


8 


Benj. Twitchell, 


4 








6 


2 





10 


2 


Ebenezer Twitchell, 


4 








6 


8 





10 


8 


Abrah'm Cuzzens, Sen'r, 


4 








9 


G 





13 


6 


Jacob Cuzzens, 


4 








4 


8 





8 


8 


Joseph Cuzzens, 


1 








5 








9 





Hope Lealand, Jun'r, 


4 








11 


5 





15 


5 


Joshua Kebbey, Sen'r, 


8 








10 


8 





18 


8 


Joshua Kebbey, Jun'r, 


4 








2 


10 





6 


10 


William Lealand, 


4 








5 


10 





9 


10 


William Sheffield, 


8 








15 





1 


3 


o 
O 


Isaac Sheffield, 


4 











8 





. 4 


s 


Daniel Sheffield, 


4 








3 


2 





7 


2 


Joseph Sheffield, 


4 








G 


8 





10 


8 


Nath. Sheffield, 


3 








7 


9 





15 


9 


John Goulding, 


4 








17 


5 


1 


1 


5 


George Fairbank, 


4 








14 


3 





18 


3 


Farm Aaron Morse, 


4 








7 


8 





11 


8 


Joshua Underwood, 


8 








11 


2 





19 


2 


Ebenezer Hill, Sen., 


8 








19 


6 


1 


7 


G 


Eben'r Hill, Jun., 


4 








1 


2 





5 


2 


David Hill, 


4 








7 


6 





11 


6 


Thomas Jones, 


12 








7 


2 





19 


2 


Eben'r Pratt, Jun'r, 


4 








4 


2 





8 


2 


John Lealand, 


4 








10 








14 





Joseph Johnson, 


4 








9 


4 





13 


4 


Moses Adams, Jun., 


4 








6 


8 





10 


8 


Benony Adams, 


4 








5 


4 





9 


4 


Isaac Morse, Sen'r, 


4 








1 


8 





5 


8 


Timothy Lealand, 


4 








9 


5 





13 


5 


James Lealand, 


4 








7 


2 





11 


2 


Isaac Bullard, 


4 








7 


8 





11 


8 


Isaac Foster, 


4 








9 


8 





13 


8 


Timothy Knowlton, 


4 








7 


10 





11 


10 


John Twitchell, 


4 








4 


10 





8 


10 


Jonath. Whitney, 


8 








12 


8 


1 





8 


Abrah. Cuzzens, Jun'r, 


4 








5 


6 





9 


6 


Isaac Cuzzens, 


4 








8 


6 





12 


6 


Gershom Eames, 


4 








3 


8 





% 


8 


John Wallis, 


4 








1 


8 





5 


8 



Polls. 


Real & Per'l Estate. 


Sum Total. 


s. d. 


£ 


s. d. 


£ 


s. d. 


4 





4 8 





8 8 


4 





4 8 





8 8 


4 





1 2 





5 2 


4 





2 2 





6 2 


4 





1 2 





5 3 








1 





1 








1 





1 



296 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

Upon. 

Joseph Lealand, 
John Holbrook, Jun'r, 
Plain Aaron Morse, 
Edmond Morse, 
John Learned, 
Zacry Paddlefoot, 
Joseph Haven, 

59. The Sum Totall, [or the half of £70, payable in money,] 34 10 

This Rate was made by us the Subscribers November ye 6th, 1721, 
for the paying the Rev. Mr. Daniel Baker His Salary this present year 
according to the Grant and agreement of the Town with Him. 

To Constable Isaac Cuzzens this list is Committed to Collect. 

Sam'l Bullard, } Assessors 
John Death, of 

Wm. Rider, Jun., ) Sherborn. 

1720-1. — Feb. 20 — A committee of 3 from the W. and 3 from the 
E. part of the town, were chosen to consult together and report at the 
next meeting, respecting the building of a new meetinghouse near dirty 
meadow, [W. Sherborn] bridge, and to deliberate and make report of 
what they may think may be for the best for the town to act upon in 
the premises ; and to propose any method, that may be likely to conduce 
to the peace and well-being of the town referring to the concern of the 
meeting-house, &c. 

March 20. The report of this committee not being accepted, it was 
voted to run a direct line from Framingham corner to Dopping brook, 
and then the brook to be the bound till it come into Bogestow brook, and 
then that to be the bound till it come to Medway line. 

Sept. 25, 1721. — Voted to receive £267, their proportion of £50,- 
000 of bills of credit, issued by the G. C. for the relief of the towns of 
the colony and to let it out in sums not above £80 nor less than 
£10 to a man so it might be timely paid in to the public treasury accord- 
ing to the provisions of the act. 

N. B. The interest of these loans went to defray Town charges. 

1721-2. — Feb. 5. Voted by a majority that money be raised by 
way of rate, (sufficient with the old meeting-house) to build a new one 
upon the land that the town formerly set apart for that purpose, near 
or upon the place occupied by the old house. 

1722. — Nov. 12. It being moved to reconsider and nullifie the above 
vote, the motion was negatived by a majority. 

1722-3.— March 6. The qualified voters met at the meeting-house, 
and immediately adjourned to meet at " the platt seventy or six Score 
Rods Easterly from Dirty Meadow Bridge, or Thereabouts," [about 
half a mile E. of the E. Depot in Hoi.] when and where it was voted 
unanimously by all present, " that a meetinghouse be built for the town 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 297 

to worship God in, on Lord's Days upon a certain hill by the road side, 
where was laid a heap of stones to know the place by, &c. and made 
null and void and of no effect the former vote of the town above and 
bearing date Feb. 5th, 1721-2, so that the town remain together for the 
strengthening thereof." 

1723. — Nov. 18th. The inhabitants " voted to nullifie and make 
void this vote of March 6, in consideration that the Form and Situation 
of the Town is so ill Convenient, that one Meeting house Cannot be so 
placed as to Suit the Whole town, but that in time there will be need of 
two to accommodate the Inhabitants." Also voted to build on or near 
the spot where the old meeting house is standing a new one, " ye Demen- 
sions to be about forty foot in length, about thirty two foot in bredth 
and about twenty foot post." And " that £160 be Levied on ye In- 
habitants by way of Rate upon Polls & Estates to be Emproved towards 
the defreying the Charge of the said Building." 

" At said Meeting after Sundry votes had passed, relating to the 
building, or rebuilding of ye publick Meeting house, the following mo- 
tion was made by Sundry of ye Principle Inhabitants of ye said town, 
Who are Dwellers on ye West side of Dopping Brook. The request 
of us the Subscribers in behalf of Our Selves and the Other Western 
Inhabitants of ye town ; Do desire that the following articles may be 
put to vote, viz. Whether they will not be free to Grant us ye liberty 
of Having that part of ye Sheffield's Farm Lying en ye East Side of 
Boggestow Brook and Edmund Morses Land and possessions on ye 
East side of Dopping brook aforesaid over and above ye Dividing line 
projected between the Eastern and Western parts of the town from 
Colonel Buckminsters Corner, &c. Then We will do all publick Duty 
to the town as heretofore 'till the Genii. Court Shall Set us off Except 
in ye Cost of Building or rebuilding the meeting house, as it has been 
this day voted. And if so We'll ask for a Dividing line no further 
Eastward." 

Jonathan Whitney, John Goulding, 

Timothy Lealand, Joshua Underwood, 

Aaron Morse, Thomas Jones, 

Moses Adams, Jr., Isaac Adams, 

Joseph Johnson, John Twitchell, 

Ebenezer Pratt, John Larnit. 
Gershom Eames, 

On the above the following vote is recorded. " The town by their 
vote do save to the said Western Inhabitants over Doppin Brook when- 
soever they are sett off, their proportion in ye £160 this day granted 
towards ye Building ye publick Meeting House where it now stands." 
The remainder of the above motion passed in the affirmative, " for the 
sake of future peace and good Neighborhood." 

Sh., 1725. — Sept. 13. " One hundred and fourty pounds was granted 
to Defray ye Cost & Charge of Building & finishing the Meetinghouse 
in Sherborn." 



298 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

Dec. 6th. Voted that " the room round the sides of the meeting- 
house below (except the alley room) be Emproved for the building of 
Pues, and that Such persons unto Whome the Town Should See reason 
to grant the liberty of the room for pues, Should do it at their own 
Cost." 

G. C. Rec, June 3, 1724. A petition of the inhabitants of the 
Westerly part of Sherborn. showing the great inconvenience they are 
under by reason of their great distance from the place of Public Wor- 
ship, the said town being near 12 miles long and the meeting house 
situated at the Easterly End ; That they have applyed to the Town to 
be set off but cannot obtain a division by such a line as they think rea- 
sonable ; and therefore praying that they may be made a distinct and 
separate township by such boundarys as arc in the said petition particu- 
larly set forth. In Council read and ordered that Adam Winthrop, 
Jona. Dowse, Esqs., (with whom the House joined Eben'r Stone, John 
Quincy, Esqs., and Mr. Edward White) be a Committee to repair as 
soon as may be to Sherborn and make inquiry into the matter of this 
petition and report what they think proper for this Court to do thereon. 
The charge of the Committee to be born by the petitioners. 

June 16, 1724. A petition of Timothy Leland and others. A Com- 
mittee of the inhabitants of the Westerly part of Sherborn, praying 
that this Court would direct the said town not to levy any tax on them 
for. building the meeting house till September next. The Committee 
appointed to consider their former petition not being able to proceed to 
Sherborn till the recess of the Court. 

In Council read and ordered that the prayer of this petition be 
granted. In the House read and concurred in. 

Nov. 20, 1724. Reported and recommended the Western part be 
erected into a precinct and separated from the first parish by the line 
that now divides Sherborn from Holliston and Ashland ; that they be 
obliged within eighteen months to erect and finish at their own charge 
a suitable house of worship ; that they provide as soon as may be a 
learned and orthodox minister ; that they be allowed to assess the lands 
of non-residents within said precinct Id. per acre towards the charge 
of building and settling a minister ; that they be freed from paying any 
part of .£160 lately assessed by said town for building a meeting-house 
in the Easterly part of the town ; that they continue to pay their pro- 
portion for the support of the present minister of the town until they 
obtain a minister of their own, and no longer ; that they procure and 
maintain a schoolmaster to instruct their youth in reading and writing. 

Their report was accepted in the several articles thereof, " saving 
that the Western part of S. be a Town and not a precinct, and that a 
bill be brought in to erect the said lands into a Township ; and that the 
inhabitants of the W. part pay the charges of the Committee, viz., <£10." 
This bill passed to be enacted by both Houses, Dec. 3, 1724, dividing 
Sherborn, and erecting the W. part into a township by the name of 
Holliston, in honor of the illustrious Thomas Hollis, Esq., of London; 
and directing that Mr. John Goulding, a principal inhabitant of Hollis- 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 299 

ton be empowered and directed to summon the inhabitants qualified for 
voters to meet for the chusing of town officers to stand until the next 
annual election according to law. In the House read and concurred in 
and consented to by Wm. Dummer. 

Sherborn, 1726. — Sept. 26. Leave was granted to all persons in ye 
said town that are disposed to build stables or Houses [called noon houses] 
for their conveniences on Lord's Day, to build on ye sides of ye Meeting- 
house Common, so as not to Discommode the Same. 

1726-7 — Jan. 27. — Voted that what persons payed in ye last Meet- 
inghouse rate be a rule to seat ye meetinghouse by allowing but one 
head to an Estate having respect to old age ; that the third seat below 
and ye fore front be equal in dignity and ye fourth seat below and ye 
second front be equal in dignity. Deacon Hopestill Lealand, Dea. Be- 
noni Lerned and William Greenwood were chosen a committee to seat 
the meetinghouse. 

1727. — Dec. 29. A vote passed to build a schoolhouse 18 feet wide 
and 20 feet long, and to set it on Meettinghouse Common on the South 
easterly side of the Meetinghouse. 

1728. — April 16. A committee was chosen to sell ye school land in 
the town towards defraying the Charge of building and finishing the 
school house. This no doubt included the 50 acre lot that was " to be 
appropriated forever for the use of a free school for teaching the Eng- 
lish and Indian children " if " it was ever set out." The consent of 
the G. C. seems not to have been asked. 

1728-9. — Jan. 6. The school lands were sold to Obediah Morse 
and Dea. Benoni Learned, the former paying forty and the latter ten 
pounds. 

1731 . — Dec. 8. Voted and granted that ten shillings be assessed in 
the next town rate to repair the old, or build new stocks. 

1733. — Dec. 7. Granted to Capt. Death the sum of ten shillings 
which is now in his hands to pay the Cost he was at for Entering a peti- 
tion at the G. C. on the towns behalf relating to their being Doomd 
for Not sending a representative. 

Granted to Mrs. Rebecca Baker the sum of £3 to make up a De- 
ficiency in the late reverd. Mr. Bakers salary. 

1736. — May 18. Several other grants were made to individuals, 
" to be paid out of the fine the G. C. sent back to the town." 

1737. — May 18. Several other grants were made to individuals 
to be paid out " of the fine the Genii. Court returned to the town." 

1746.— Nov. 12. Then ye Town Voted to pay Mr. Wilson, for 
Preaching (in the time of ye Revd. Mr. Porter's sickness) out of money 
returned to ye Town for not sending a representative. 

1749.— Octr. 31. Then the town voted that the Revd. Mr. Porter's 
Sallary, for this present year, Shall be four hundred Pounds Old tenor. 
— Then a vote was asked whither the women should sit with their chairs 
in the alleys of the meeting house, and it passed in the Negative. 

1752. — May 19. Isaac Coolege, Esq., was Chosen to represent the 
town in a Great and General Court appointed to be Convened for his 
Majesty's service at Concord, may 27, 1752. 



300 HISTORY OF SHEHBORN. 

1753. — March 6. Granted <£13 6s. 8d. to Recrute the town stock 
of Ammunition. Granted to Elisha Kendal for ye Locks to Lock up 
the amunition 8d. Granted to the Selectmen that Were at Expence 
in Geting a fine remitted for the towns not- sending a Representative 
the Last year, 13s. 4d. 

1754. — " This year is remarkable,. for the prevalence of an uncommon 
disorder, which prevailed in this town and Holliston, denominated in the 
latter place, the Great Sickness, and, in Sherborne, the Memorable 
Mortality. The number of deaths recorded in January is 12 ; Febru- 
ary, 6 ; March, 2 ; April, 5. During the next six months no deaths are 
recorded. November 3, Dec. 5. 

The whole number who died of this fatal malady in S. was between 
20 and 30." 

1759. — Septr. 9. A certificate was sent from the Baptist Church of 
Christ in Boston, declaring Mr. Jonathan Partridge, of said Sher- 
borne, to be a member of said Church, under the care of Mr. Ephraim 
Bounde, Elder of scl. Church. 

Septr. 10. — Then the town voted that Mr. Porter's Sallary should be 
this present year 66 pound 13 shillings and 4 pence. 

1758. — Oct. 2d. Granted twenty seven pounds and fifteen shillings 
to fulfil and Complete what remained due from the town for the Sallary 
of the Revd. Mr. Samuel Porter, Late Deced.* At the said meeting, 
the town granted £66 13s. 4d. to supply the town with Preaching for 
time to Come. At the above said meeting, the town made Choice of 
Deacon James Whitney, Deacon Jonathan Russell and Mr. Arthur 
Clark, a Committee to supply the Pulpit in sd. town. 

Deer. 18 — Voted that the committee Which Ware appointed to sup- 
ply the Pulpit be Desird to Ingage Mr. Minot for 1 or 2 months Longer 
to preach in sd. town. 

1758-9. — Jan 29. The Church and town unitedly made Choice of 
Mr. Steven Minot to be their Gospel minister by a Unanemos Vote, 
and offered £133 6s. 8d. towards his settlement; and <£66 13s. 4d. for 
his Salary. 

June 29. — The town Voted that the Committee allready Chosen, are 
desired to Ingage Mr. Locke, to Supply the town with Preaching, or 
Some other gentleman or gentlemen, Until there shall be another meet- 
ing on that affair. 

August 15. — The town Concurred with the act of the Church, in 
Choosing Revd. Samuel Locke for their Gospel minister, by a majority of 

* The following Translation of his Latin epitaph in the central graveyard in S. is 
presumed to be a just discription of his character. 

" Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of the Reverend Samfel Porter ; a 
man distinguished for active powers of mind; conspicuous for piety and prudence, 
for benevolence and courtesy of manners ; a zealous preacher of the gospel ; an 
ornament of the doctrine, and a shining example of the life of Christ ; a most watch- 
ful and affectionate pastor of the church at Sherboum, during twenty-four years. He 
was also well versed in human learning and sacred Theology, and distinguishingly 
endowed and adorned with social affections and virtues. He passed from this life to 
the heavenly regions, September 16, 1758, in the 49th year of his age." 



HISTORY OF SHERB0UN. 301 

Votes, and voted <£133 6s. 8d. for his encouragement to settle -with us ; 
also £lo Gs. 8d. per annum, for his salary, provided he settle with us 
in the Gospel ministry, and so Long as he continues in the same. At 
the aforesaid meeting, the town chose as a committee, to join with the 
churches committee, Dr. Bela Lincoln and John Morse, to treet with 
Revd. Samuel Lock. 

Rev. Samuel Lock, by his answer in ye affirmitiue, on September 23d, 
1759, manifested his Exceptence of the choice above mentioned. 

Octr. 11. — In town meeting, voted that Wednesday, the 7th day of 
November next, be the day for the Ordenation of Revd. Samuel Lock, 
into the office and service of the Gospel ministry in Shurborne,by a ma- 
jority of Votes. Also at ye said meeting, the town chose Capt. Edward 
Learned, Capt. Amos Coolidge & Mr. Samuel Sanger, a committee to 
provide entertainment for the Revd. councel, at ye sd. ordenation, and 
voted that the selectmen are desired to draw money out of the town 
treasury, so much as they Judge needfull for ye sd. Entertainment. 

1760. — Deer. 3d. The selectmen gave order to the Town Treasurer 
to pay Mr. Stephen Minot's Heirs what remained due to Him for 
preaching. 

1763. — March 7. Voted to pay Mr. Brooks for preaching when Mr. 
Locke was sick. 

May 7. — Mr. Benjamin Whitney, Deacon Jonathan Russell and 
Ebenezer Twitchell, were chosen to supply the town with preaching, and 
voted that the committee provide three young ministers to preach one 
month each, as soon as may be convenient. Granted <£40 for the 
purpose. 

Dec. 3. — Voted to pay Timothy Hilliard his account for preaching 
at Sherborn. 

1767. — Oct. 17. Granted £9 to be assessed on Polls and Estates to 
pay ye fine and Cost of a Presentment for not Having a Gramer School 
in S. 

1768. — Granted to Esqr. Perry 6s. & to Jos. Twitchell 18s. for the 
cost and charge they ware at in Giting a fine granted by sessions to the 
town to be spent in a Gramer School. 

1768. — Feb. 15. Gave order to the Treasurer to pay Mr. Thomas 
Prentice, ye School Master and the several Persons that Borded him at 
the Several Parts of the Town their Proportion of <£18 — the School- 
master to Have after the Rate of <£26 13s. 6d. a year, and those that 
Borded him 4s. per week. 

1769. — May 22. Voted to put in twenty feet in the length of the 
Meeting-house, and that the Peace be put in the middle. Granted one 
hundred pounds for this purpose : Chose, a committee of five to see 
How they would Git it Done. 

1770. — Jan. Joseph Bacon was engaged to enlarge the meeting 
house, and <£150 lawful money granted to him, as a full compensation. 
" This was done by sawing the house in two in the middle, moving the 
western half to the distance desired, and connecting the two parts to- 
gether by a new piece." 



302 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

1770. — July 9. Voted to have the Committee Ingage Mr. Brown 
four Saboths more than they have already. 

August 27. — Voted that the town ware determined to come to the 
choice of a minister before they heard any more on probation ; and 
that the committee Imploy Mr. Brown till the town come to the choice, 
and voted £30 to pay for preaching. 

Sept. 19. — The town concurred with the Church by choosing Rev. 
Elijah Brown their Gospell minister by a majority of votes. Granted 
£160 settlement ; £73 6s. 4d. pr. annum salary. Chose a committee 
to Joyn with the Churches committee to treat with Rev. Elijah Brown. 

Nov. 8. — Voted that the last Wednesday of this instant Novr. be the 
day for the ordination of Rev. Elijah Brown ; chose Dr. Leavit to en- 
tertain the Counsel. Also voted that the town will not make a publick 
entertainment. 

1771. — Jan. 21. Chose a committee to make application to the 
Hon. and Rev. Board of Overseers of Harvard College for the neces- 
sary expence of the Resettlement of a minister. 

March 4. — Granted to Samuel Sanger for keeping ministers horses 
£2 6s. to Dr. Josiah Levet for providing for ordination £10 2s. 8d. 

1772. — March 2. Voted to have the town Treasurer let out the 
money granted by the Corporation of Harvard Collidge and the Province 
Treasurer to the town, on good security ; being in all £51 7s. 4d. 

1774. — May 19. The following men were chosen a committee of 
correspondence, Rev. Samuel Locke, Capt. Richard Sanger, Capt. 
Joseph Twitchell, Mr. Samuel Bullard, Mr. Daniel Whitney, Mr. Ben- 
jamin Fasset and Mr. Jedediah Phipps. 

July 8th. The Selectmen and commissioned officers examined and 
tried the Town's stock of Ammunition and there is 200 lbs. of Powder, 
150 lbs. of Bullets and 295 flints. One cask of powder bought A. D. 
1702, one do. 1722, 1 do. without date, two do. 1774. Lead 200 lbs. 
bought, Sept. 1774. 

August 24. — Chose Capt. Richard Sanger, Mr. Samuel Bullard and 
Mr. Benjamin Fasset to meet committees of the several towns in this 
county, on the 30th instant. 

Sept. 20. Mr. Samuel Bullard and Mr. Jonathan Lealand were 
chosen a committee to send to Concord. Voted to git a six pound field 
piece, or cannon, and chose Joshua Lealand, Daniel Whitney and Ben- 
jamin Bullard to procure it. Granted £18 to procure said piece and 
necessaries. 

Oct. 18. — Voted to accept the three pieces of cannon, which the com- 
mittee procured instead of a six pounder, that the committee prove them 
at the town's expence, and fire the biggest as soon as may be, with all 
the necessaries that may be needed. 

1775. — Jan. 9. Chose Mr. Benjamin Fasset and Capt. Richard 
Sanger to represent the town in Congress at Cambridge, on the 1st day 
of February next. Voted to consent to the Resolves of the Continen- 
tal and Provincial Congresses — to give a bounty to encourage the raising 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 303 

of sheep and flax — that the Constables pay the Province money to 
Henry Gardner, Esq. of Stow — to choose a committee of Inspection, to 
see that the Resolves of the Congress be complied with. 

Feb. 6. — Chose a Committee of five to receive donations and sub- 
scriptions for the poor people of Boston. 

March 6. — Voted that those that have and shall enlist as minute men, 
to the number of fifty-three be a company intire by themselves — to 
grant <£8 to provide ammunition for the cannon — that the cannon be 
under the care and direction of the militia officers of this town ; that the 
cannon be shot three times with powder and ball at the cost of the town. 

May 24. — Chose Daniel Whitney, Esq , to represent the town in 
Congress at Watertown, to be held on 31st instant. 

Oct. 2d. — Granted <£30 for the support of the poor of Boston. 

1776. — March 5. Voted to choose a committee of five to procure 
places for the poor of Boston to live in. 

May 21. — Voted, that if the Hon. Continental Congress should in 
their wisdom declare the Colonies independent of great Britain, we, the 
inhabitants of the town of S. will, with our lives and fortunes, endeavour 
to support them in that measure ; and we do hereby instruct Mr. Daniel 
Whitney, now Chosen our representative for the year ensuing to act in 
conformity to the above said vote. 

July 5. — Voted to give £7 per man, in addition to the bounty that 
is given by the colony, to twenty one men that shall enlist to go to 
Canada. 

August 26. — The last vote was reconsidered. Voted that the Select- 
men procure a hospital for inoculating for Small-pox, if they can get 
liberty from the court. 

1776. — Nov. 28. Voted that the present General Court of this 
State should form such a Constitution and form of Government, as they 
judge will most conduce to the happiness, peace and safety of the In- 
habitants thereof, and that the same be made publick for the inspection 
and approbation of the Inhabitants of this State, before the ratification 
thereof. 

" The votes of the Inhabitants of this town, .during the whole of the re- 
volutionary struggle, prove that they were animated, to a high degree 
with that spirit which achieved our independence. 

As soon as the news reached them of the massacre at Lexington, on 
the 19th of April, 1775, the minute men proved themselves worthy of 
their title, by marching immediately to meet the assailants, and the rest 
of the able bodied men, of all ages, followed with all possible alacrity. 
But the distance was so great and the route of the enemy so uncertain, 
that they had not the satisfaction of meeting and helping to chastise 
them. They, however, furnished their quota to assist in the besieging 
of Boston ; and a number of them displayed their heroism in the battles 
of Bunker Hill,'' White Plains, and Brandywine. Seven brothers, the 
sons of Mr. Samuel Clark, (p. 60, No. 11,) enlisted as soldiers, and 
served, on an average, over three years per man. Other instances of 



304 HISTORY OF SHERBOItN. 

remarkable devotion to freedom's cause might be cited, but it is deemed 
impracticable to ascertain the names or number of all from S. who 
served in that war. 

1786. — This year was remarkable on account of an insurrection, 
called " Shays' rebellion." On this occasion the inhabitants of S. 
proved themselves to be firm friends of liberty and order, by readily 
furnishing their portion of officers and privates, to join the troops under 
the command of General Lincoln. 

" Mr John Ware of S. acted as adjutant in this expedition. Being sent 
with orders to a distance from Lincoln's army, he stopped for refresh- 
ment, at a tavern in, or near Brookfield, where there happened to be a 
small party of insurgents, who took him prisoner and confined him in an 
upper room of the house, while they kept guard below. In the course 
of the day, Ware saw from his prison a company of cavalry approaching, 
which he soon recognized as being on the side of government. He 
hailed them from a window of his apartment and made them acquainted 
with his situation. The house was immediately surrounded, the Shaysites 
surrendered at discretion, and W. was enabled to accomplish the object 
of his mission." 

1787. — Dec 10. Daniel Whitney, Esq. was chosen a delegate to 
represent the town in the convention, to be holden in Boston, on the 2d 
Wednesday of January next, for the purpose of approving, or disap- 
proving the Constitution, or Frame of Government for the United States 
of America. Voted to give the delegate instructions, which conclude 
thus : 

" But, sir, we mean not to give you positive instructions, relative to 
your voting for or against the reported Constitution. When assembled, 
you will have the collected wisdom of the State before you ; will hear 
all that can be said on the subject, and consequently be able to form a 
judicious opinion. And having the fullest confidence in your political 
wisdom, integrity and patriotism, we cheerfully, on our part, submit the 
all important question to your decision. And we beseech the Allwise 
Governor of the world to take the Convention under his holy influence, 
that so the result may be the best good of the people of the United 
States of America." 

" This truly honorable member was one of the majority, who voted in 
favour of this truly invaluable instrument." 

1793. — D ec . 2d. A vote was asked whether the town will accept of 
the bell, on the terms proposed by the subscribers, viz. That the town 
shall hang the said bell handsomely, and cause it to be rung, as usual in 
towns ; then said bell to remain for the use of the town, so long as they 
shall remain a religious society. Passed in the affirmative. 

1797.— Nov. G. Voted to make up the wages of the militia, that 
shall be detached from this town, according to a resolve of Congress," in 
expectation of a war with France, ten dollars a month, provided they 
march, and also $1 bounty, whether they march or not, for non-commis- 
sioned officers and privates. Also to give them $2 more bounty, if they 
march out of the Commonwealth. 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 305 

The following acts of the Town, from June, 1731, to Aug., 1734, 
accidentally omitted on p. "299, should be there read in the order of dates. 

[1731. — June 1G. A committee of three, viz., Deacon Greenwood, 
William Lealand and John Holbrook, to take care for the supply of 
the pulpit, untill ye Town Com into Sum other method ; Then was 
granted the sum of Fifty pounds for the Supply of ye Pulpit. 

Sept. 27. — It was put to vote which of the Gentlemen who had 
of late supplyed the pulpit, they wold here further in ye Supply of ye 
Pulpit, if they might be obtained, And Mr Uarney had the majority of 
votes. 

Dec. 10. — Granted the sum of Sixty Pounds for the Support, and to 
pay those ministers which supply the Pulpit with preaching. 

1731-2. — Jan. 26. It being tryed by a vote whether ye Town in- 
clined to hire som other Gentleman in the pulpit, and it passed fully in 
the affirmative. 

1732. — April 25. The Churches choice of Rev. John Warren to be 
their Gospil minister was presented to the Town for their Concurrance. 
And the Town by a full Vote accepted of the Churches Choice ; And 
Lt. Joseph Ware, Dfea. Greenwood and Samuel Holbrook, ware Chosen 
a Committee to Treat with Mr. John Warren, and report what the 
Town has dun, &c. At this meeting twenty six voters entred their dis- 
sent to the above proceedings, said meeting being counted irregular and 
Not Legal. And they observe Further more, We do not Concur with 
the Choice of the Church this Day. 

Oct. 12. — Then it was put to the town to know their minds, whither 
they would accept of the Churches Choice of ye Rev. Mr. Ward Cotton to 
be their Gospel Minister, and the town unanimously manifested their ac- 
ceptance of the Churches choice, of the Reverend gentleman aforesaid, 
by written votes. The town made choice of a committee to join with 
that of the church, to treat with Mr. Cotton, &c. Nothing further ap- 
pears respecting Mr. Cotton on the records. At this meeting the town 
voted one hundred and twenty pounds, to supply the town with preach- 
ing, &c. 

1733. — June 14. At said meeting, Mr. Nathaniel Walter was chosen 
the Gospel minister of said Church and town by a majority of votes — 
Also, a committee was chosen to treet with Mr. Walter, &c. Nothing 
further respecting Mr. W. on record. 

Sept. 28th. — At a meeting of the Church in Sherborn, with the rest 
of the freeholders, and other Inhabitants of said Town, Duly qualified to 
vote in Town affairs, and to joyn Ishue, or Concur With, the Church in the 
choice of a Gospel minister — The Church and Town Unanimously voted 
and made choice of Ebenezer Hancock to be their Gospel minister, and 
a committee was chosen to Give him an Invitation or call to settle with 
us in the Work and service, &c. Nothing is further recorded of Mr. 
Hancock. 

1734. — April 25. The Church and town by a Unanimous Vote made 
choice of Mr. Samuel Porter to be their Gospel Minister, and Voted 
three hundred pounds in Bills of Publick credit towards his Settlement. 
6 



oOG HISTORY OF SHERB0RN. 

Also, voted one hundred and thirty pounds per annum for his Salary in 
Bills of credit on this province, according to their present value : and to 
rise and fall as Silver money doth With the Marchants of this pro- 
vince — Provided he Settle with us, in the Gospel ministry, and so long 
as he Continues in the Same. 

Mr. John Holbrook, Capt. John* Death, Lieut. Isaac Coolidge, Mr. 
James Whitney & Ensign Eleazer Fairbanks, were Chosen a Committee to 
joyn with the Churches Committee, To Treet with the lleverd. Gentlm. 
Chosen as afore sd., And to give him an Invitation, or call to Settle in 
Said Town, in the Work *and Service of the Gospel Ministry. 

July 16. — Voted that the Revd. Mr. Samuel Porter's Yearly Salary 
Shall be one hundred and Thirty ounces of Silver, or the amount thereof 
in Bills of Public Credit, And the Salary Annually to Rise and fall ac- 
cording to the Standard of Silver money at Twenty Shillings per ounce. 

August 20. — The Church and Town Voted that the fourth Wednes- 
day in October next, Shall be the Day appointed to ordain the Revd. 
Mr. Samuel Porter, and granted Twenty five pounds, to be Levied on 
Polls and Estats by Way of vote, according to the rules prescribed in 
the Law for the Support of the Ministers and Messingers at the or- 
dination, &c] 

1807. — Voted to give the officers and soldiers, that are or may be 
detached, as our proportion of one hundred thousand militia, ordered by 
the President of U. S., to be detached and held in readiness to march 
at a moment's warning, at the rate of $12 per month, including the pay 
allowed them by the U. S., provided they are called into actual service. 

1808. — Dec. 11. Voted to allow and pay to the officers and soldiers 
that were detached, in the course of the present month, as our propor- 
tion of one hundred thousand militia, &c, such sums, as shall, together 
with the pay allowed them by the U. S., be equal to $12 per month, 
during the time they shall be in actual service. 

1809. — August 22. From this time the " Parish Records " have 
been kept in a book, separate from the Town Records. 

1814. — August 29. Voted to hire some person to assist the Revd. 
Elijah Brown, in the discharge of his ministerial duties, during his 
feeble state of health, and granted $100 for this purpose. 

1814. — Voted to allow and pay to the soldiers that are or may be 
detached from this town, previous to the first Monday of March next, 
to serve in the armies of the U. S. such sums as shall, together with the 
pay allowed them by the State and General government, be equal to $15 
per month during the time they shall be in actual service. Also voted 
to pay the commissioned and non-commissioned officers, the same sum 
granted to the soldiers, in addition to the pay allowed them by the State 
and General government. 

1815.— May 23. Voted to raise $240 for hiring Preaching. 

181G. — March 4. A vote similar to the above was past, money 
granted and a committed chosen to hire preaching. 

Septr. Monday the day of A vote was asked whether the Parish 

would concur with the Church of Christ in this place, in giving the 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 307 

Revd. Ephraim Randall an invitation to settle with them, as their Gos- 
pel minister, and it passed in the negative. 

Nov. 4. — Voted and granted $75 to defray the expences of the 
Funeral of the late Revd. Elijah Brown. 

1816. — Nov. 25. Shear jashub Bourne Toivnsend, a native of Bar- 
rington, R. I., and graduate of Brown University, 1814, was chosen by 
a vote of the church to be their pastor. 

Dec. 16. — The parish voted to concur with the church in calling Mr. 
S. B. Townsend to settle with them, as their gospel minister. Three 
hundred dollars were granted to be paid him within one year from the 
time of his settlement ; the further sum of $300 in two years from that 
time ; and $600 annually. 

1817. — June 9. The parish voted to concur with the church in ap- 
pointing the second day of July next for the ordination of Mr. Towns- 
end, who was then ordained. 

1828. — August 25. Voted that the Parish Committee in concur- 

• • • 

rence with Rev. Mr. Townsend be directed to hire a minister, to supply 
the pulpit, during Mr. Townsend's inability to discharge his ministerial 
duties ; and that they draw on the Treasurer for money to defray the 
expense to an amount, not exceeding $100. 

1829. — July 1. " G-entlemen, Selectmen of the Town of Sher- 
born — 

Having, after serious consideration, come to the conclusion to resign 
my Salary at the close of this year of my Ministry, I take this method 
of signifying my determination to you, and through you to the People 
at a convenient opportunity. The occasion would prompt me to say 
much ; but my strength admonishes me to leave my motives to be chiefly 
interpreted by my past conduct and my known sentiments. The People 
will not be insensible, that I voluntarily remit what, if I live, I might 
long and legally retain. I see no reasonable prospect that I shall within 
several years, if ever, be able to perform the regular and necessary 
duties of the stated ministry, even on the supposition that I should live 
and my health be much improved. 

I deem it my duty to say that I hope it will be considered one of my 
principal reasons for adopting the present measures, that the Church 
and people may have an early opportunity of concurring in the choice 
of a Christian Pastor and Teacher, before discord shall invade and 
divide a People hitherto noted for Peace. 

If I make any sacrifice by this relinquishment, all I wish for myself 
in return is the affectionate remembrance of this People, and the perma- 
nent effect of my labors among them. I am sensible of many errors 
and deficiencies ; I ask their forgiveness. And I shall cherish as long 
as life a deep sense of their past generosity and friendship. 

I am yours, Gentlemen, with respect and affection. 

Sher jashub B. Townsend. 

" P. S. As I have delayed till this time to make this communica- 
tion, I have engaged Rev. Mr. Clarke to preach for three succeeding 
Sabbaths. 



308 HISTORY OP SHERBORN. 

If any explanation of the above is required, it will be understood,, 
that I desire to retain a nominal relation to this Society as Minister J 
and a Person settled would therefore be settled as colleague. But he 
would have all the compensation to receive, and, except what might be 
voluntary on my part, he would have all the ministerial duties to perform." 

July 20. — Voted to discharge Rev. Mr. Townsend partially from his , 
official duties — upon the conditions expressed in the above communication. 

In the autumn of this year, Mr. T. and his wife went on a journey 
for the benefit of his health ; first to Charleston, S. C, and thence to 
St. Augustine, in Florida, where he died without issue. He had for- 
merly been a tutor in Brown University. He possessed a mind of a 
high order, though subject at times to partial alienation. Of his benev- 
olence and piety none qualified to judge could doubt. 

1830, — March 22. Rev. Amos Clarke, was invited by a vote of 
the church and congregation united,* to become the Associate Pastor, 
with the Rev. Mr. Townsend, over this Society. 

June 7. — Voted that the Parish Committee be requested to write to 
the Rev. Mr. Townsend, our senior Pastor, and express to him our sym- 
pathy and sorrow for the continuance of his indisposition ; our gratitude 
for the magnanimous sacrifice he has made by relinquishing his salary, 
to promote our union and harmony ; and our anxious desire for his res- 
toration to health and his early return to his People : — and also to make 
him particularly acquainted with all the important circumstances, that 
have taken place in the Parish during his absence. 

August 18 and 19. — This Society raised a meeting-house which was 
finished in December following. It is 83 by 48 feet, containing 78 
pews on the ground floor and 6 in the gallery, besides seats for mu- 
sicians. The architecture of this house exhibits a happy union of sim- 
plicity and elegance. On Lord's day, Dec. 26, of the same year, pub- 
lic worship was attended, for the last time, and an interesting and in- 
structive sermon preached by Rev. Mr. Clarke, in the old meeting- 
house, which had been devoted to that purpose, for more than a cen- 
tury. On Wednesday, the 2 ( Jth of the same month and year, the new 
house, erected within a few feet of the old one, was solemnly dedicated 
to the worship of God. 

On the 10th of February, 1830, a petition to William Harriss, Esq., 
or either of the Justices of the Peace, in the town of Natiek, was 
signed by twelve of the male inhabitants of the town of Sherborn, in 
behalf of a majority of the church, and a minority of the congregation, 
requesting that " a warrant may be issued, in due form of law, for the 
purpose of forming a Second religious Congregational Society, in said 
town " A warrant was accordingly issued, on the next day, by Sam- 
uel Fisk, Esq., of Natick ; and, on the 22d of the same month and 
year, the Society was duly organized. 

This division of the parish, so lamentable in itself, and of the neces- 
sity of which doubts may be honestly entertained, had quite a majority 

* Was not this an innovation on the usage of the church and parish ? See pp. 
300, 302, 305-307. 







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HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 309 

of the Church ; and as they retained the previous forms of government 
and belief, they must be considered as the original Puritan Church of 
1085, and the rightful depositaries of the records of that body. 

On the 8th of July following, this society raised the frame of a 
meeting-house, on a rising piece of ground, about 40 rods S. E. of 
Meeting-house Hill. This house is 60 by [6 feet, contains 64 p'ews on 
the floor, and a gallery for musicians. It is a pleasing specimen of 
plain and neat architecture. The congregation worshipping in this 
house, styled the Trinitarian Church and Society, Sept. BO, 1830, 
called Mr. Samuel Lee,f who graduated 1827 at Yale College, and sub- 
sequently at the Theological Seminary at New Haven. He was installed 
Nov. 4th following. Mr. Lee, after a successful ministry of some years, 
was succeeded as pastor of this church by Mr. Smith, now Professor 
in Bangor Theological Seminary, who was succeeded by Edmund Dowse, 
the present minister. 

COLLEGE GRADUATES. 

27. 22. "Adam Bullard, H. U.,1742,d. about 1748, at Halifax, N. S. 
197. 8. * William Phipps, H. U., 1746, d. 1798, a. 

64. 33. *Hezekiah Coolidge, H. XL, 1750, d. 1761, at Crown Point. 
191. 22. * Joseph Perry, H. U., 1752, d. 1755, pr. in Ct. 

* Eliab Stone, H. U., 1758, d. 1822, minister in Reading, Ms. 
235. 26. *Zedekiah Sanger, H. U.,1771. S. T. D. 1820. 

* Enoch Whipple, H. U., 1779. 

158. 25.1* Samuel Kendall, H. U., 1782. S. T. D. d. 1814. Min- 
ister of Weston, Mass. 

Henry Ware, H. XL, 1785. S. T. D. d. 1845. 
Aaron Gardner, B. IT., 1799, r. a Teacher on Long Island, 
N. Y. 

Elijah Brown, H. U., 1804, d. 1805. 
Henry Brown, H. U., 1804, d. 1810. 
Amos Clarke, H. U., 1804. 
Ashur Ware, H. U., 1804, LL.D. 

fRev. Samuel Lee 6 [now pastor of a Chh. in New Ipswich, N. H.,] was b. 1 m. 
S. of the meeting house in Kensington, Berlin, Ct., Mar. 3, 1803, the s. of Samuel 
L. 5 (b. Oct. 2, 1757, d. Mar. 31, 1803), by w. Sarah Burnet, (m. 1794, d. Mar. 23, 
1830,) who m. Jly. 1810, Nathan Boardman of W.field, Middletown, Ct., with- whom 
her son was brought up. Mr. L. 6 was the grd. s. of Dea. John Lee, 4 of Christian 
lane, Kensington, (b. Apl. 22, 1725, d. 1796,) by w. Sarah Cole, (m. May 7, 1752,) 
and the gr. grd. s. of Dea. Jona. L. 3 of the same place, in K. (b. Mar. 20, 1686, d. 
June 16, 1758), by w. Mary Root, (m. June 4, 1713), and the gr. gr. grd. s. of John 
L. 2 of Farmington, (b. June 11, 1659, d. Apl. 24, 1723), by w. Elizabeth Loomis, (m. 
Dec. 27, 1682) ; and gr. gr. gr. grd. s. of John Lee, 1 the Puritan, who arrived early at 
Hartford, m. Mary Hart, dg. of Dea. Stephen Hart, became one of the 61 proprietors 
of Farmington, where he settled in 1640, and with his wife joined the chh. 1660. 
He built his house S. of the meeting-house, on the site of a brick building, occupied 
as a boarding-house of a fem. sem. 

Mr. Lee 6 m. Nov. 3, 1834, Emily Fiske, dg. of Dea. Samuel F., of Natick, who d. 
Mar. 5, '43 ; and 2d, Lydia Coggswell "Wentworth, dg. of Paul "VV., Esq., of Concord, 
N. H., Jan. 14, 1846, who d. Mar. 6, '55; and had 

1. Sarah Fiske, 7 Sep. 14. '38 ; 2. Samuel W., 7 Sep. 12, '47; 3. John W., 7 Apl. 
3, '52; 4. Geo. Win., 7 June 20, '55. 

"Deceased. 



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310 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

149.143. 'Moses Holbrook, H. U., 1808, d. about 1745. 
156. 53. *Artemas Johnson, B. U., 1808. 
244. 14. Ebenezer Stone, B. U., 1820. 
167. * Dexter Leland, B. U., 1822. 
238. 51. Elbridge Sanger, entered B. U. 1822, left 1824, from a 

defect in hearing. 
165. 56. Augustin Leland, B. TJ., 1834, d. 1836. 
167. Francis Leland, B. TJ., 1838. 
61. 32.? Samuel Clarke, Y. C, 1836. 
95. 4. Alfred Grout, Y. C, 1854, son of Nathan G., and now a 

Student at Law. 
64. 27g. Amos H. Cooledge, Amh. C.,1854, and now a member of 
Theo. Sem., Andover. 

CLERGYMEN. 

92. * Daniel Gookin, 1785-1717-'18. 

11. * Daniel Baker, 1712-1731. 
203. * Samuel Porter, 1734-1758. 
173. * Samuel Locke, D. D., 1759-1770. 

18. * Elijah Brown, 1770-1816. 

* Shearjashub B. Townsend, 1817-1829. 
61. Amos Clark, 1830-1842. 

Richard C. Stone, 1843-1855. 

Theodore H. Dorr, 1854, to the present time. 

PASTORS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND SOCIETY. 

Samuel Lee, 1830. 

Smith. 

79. Edmund Dowse, 1838, to the present time. 

DEACONS IN THE PRESUMED ORDER OF THEIR ELECTION. 

* Obadiah Morse, elected, 1655. 
*Benoni Learned. 

* Hopestill Lealand. 
*Wm. Lealand. 
*Wm. Greenwood. 

* James Whitney. 

* Jona. Russell. 

* Jona. Twitchell. 
*Benj. Whitney. 

* Ebenezer Fairbanks. 
*Wm. Clark. 
*Wm. Tucker.? 

* Joseph Dowse. 

* Aaron Leland. 
Oliver Fisk. 

*Micha Leland. 

* Deceased. 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 311 

Of the Orthodox Ohh. 
Daniel Leland. 
Aaron Cooledge, of do. 
Lowell Cooledge, of do., elected, 1854. 
Martin Barber, do., 1854. 

PHYSICIANS. 

83. Jonathan Fairbank, ab. 1685—1719. 
102. Eleazer Hill, ab. 1712-**** r. at City Hill. 
245. Jonathan Tay, 1772-1827. 
173. Samuel Locke, ab. 1783-1788. 
264. Tapley Wyeth, 1784-1813. 

Win. Sweetser, ab. 1818, " for a considerable time," who 
was afterwards Prof, in V. U.,at Burlington. 
81. Oliver Everett, 1825-1852. 

16. Albert H. Blanchard, 1852 to the present time. Docts. 
Lincoln, Shepherd, Levet, Blodget, Flagg, Wise and Wight, 
are reported as having resided here, but when and for what 
time is not ascertained. 

LAWYERS. 

Sherborn has never had a lawyer ; and yet is believed to have trans- 
acted her own business as legally, and to have been afflicted and im- 
poverished far less by litigation than her sister towns, which have long 
had able and high-minded lawyers established in their midst. Such 
was formerly her relative rank for other characteristics than litigation, 
as to attract hither the immortal Ames to establish himself in practice ; 
but he soon left for Dedhain. Daniel Warren, about 1812, opened a 
Law Office here, but his fees did not encourage his continuance; and 
the like result would probably be realized from a third attempt, if made 
before Sherborn changes her inhabitants or greatly increases her business. 

SELECTMEN. 

Daniel Morse, Sen., chosen 1678, and served until his death in 
1688, probably without re-election. 

Thos. Eames, chosen 1678, and served until his death, 1680. 

Geo. Fairbank, chosen 1678, and served until his death, 1682. 

Edward West, chosen 1678, and re-elected at the end of 10 years, 
1688, '89, '90, '91, '92, and '94. 

Obadiah Morse, 1078, pr. served until 1688, and re-elected 1695, 
'96, '97, '98, 1700, '02, '03, '04. 

Joseph Morse, chosen 1688, '89, '90, '91, '91, '96, '97, '99, 1700, 
'02, '05, '07, '10, '11, '12, '14. 

John Death, 1688, '90, '93-4, '96. 

Benj. Bullard, 1688. 

Jona. Morse, Senr., 1688, '89, '90, '91, '93, '95, 1711. 

Hopestill Lealand, 1689, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, '97, '99, 1700-'03. 

John Eames, 1690, '92. 



312 HISTORY OF SIIERBORN. 

Thos. Holbrook, Senr., 1690. 

Benoni Learned, 1690, '93, '95, '97, 1700, '01, '02, '03, '01, '05, 
'06, '10. 

John Perry, Senr., 1692, '93. 

Isaac Learned, 1692, '98, i706. 

John Cooledge, 1692, '93, '94, '98, 1700, '02, '06, '07, '08, '09. 

Jona. Fairbank, 1695, '98, '99, 1700, '01. 

Win. Rider, Senr., 1696, '97, '98. 

Sam'l Bullard, 1699, 1704, '05, '09, '10, '11, '12, '14, '15, '16, '17, 
'18, '19, '20, '21, '23, '24, '26, '27. 

Eben. Leland, 1699. 

Thos. Sawin, 1701, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07, '08, '10, '11, '12, 
'14. 

Moses Adams, 1701. 

Eleazer Fairbank, 1703. 

Samuel Morse, 1704. 

Abraham Cousens, 1707, '08. 

Nathaniel Morse, 1707, '08. 

Wm. Eider, Junr., 1708, '09, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, 
'19, '20, '21, '23, '24, '27, '29, '31, '33. 

Wm. Sheffield, 1709. 

Eleazer Holbrook, 1709, '11, '12, '22. 

" Thos. Holbrook," 1710. 

Eben. Badcock, 1711. 

John Death, Esq., 1712, '15, '16, '21, '23, '26, '27, '28, '30, '33, 
'36, '37, '40, '42, '44, '46. 

Henry Lealand, 1713, '14, '21, '23, '24, '27. 

Joseph Ware, 1713, sarg. '15, '16, '17, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25, 
'29, '34, '36. 

Benj. Whitney, Jim., 1713, '15, '16, '17, '18. 

Edmond Gookin, 1718. 

Eben. Lealand, Sen., 1719, '20, '31. 

John Golding, 1719, '22. 

Nathaniel Sheffield, 1722. 

John Holbrook, 1722, '28, '29, '30, '31, '32. 

Timothy Lealand, 1722. 

James Adams, 1725. 

Eleazer Fairbank, Jun., 1725. 

William Lealand, 1725, '27, '28, '29, '33, '34, '36, '38, '40. 

Isaac Cooledge, 1725, 31, 32, 34, 43. 

Jona. Fairbank, 1726. 

Eleazer Morse, 1726, '32, '44. 

Joseph Twitchell, 1726. 

Benj. Muzzey, 1726, '30, '33. 

Wm. Greenwood, 1728, '29, '32, '35, '36, '47. 

John Brick, 1728. 

Ephm. Bullen, 1730. 

Sam'l Holbrook, 1731, '35, '37, '39, '41, '43, '55. 



HISTORY OB SHERBORN. 313 

Benj. Bullard, 1730, '32, j.m. '35, '38, '40, '42, '44, '46, '47, '50, 
'51, '53, '54, '56, '59. »>»!,*">, 

Samuel Fairbank, 1733. 
Eleazer Fairbank, Ens., 1734, '36. 
James Whitney, 1735, '39, '42, '52, '59. 

Joseph Perry, Jan., '35, '37, '39, '41, '42, '43, '45, '49, '50, '54, 
'55, '58, '59, '62, '63, '64. 
John Phippg, 1737, '40. 
Joseph Lealand, 1737, '39. 
Obadiah Morse, 1738. 
. Ephm. Bullen, 1738. 

| Arthur Clark, 1739, '49, '51, '57, '58, '60. 
Jona. Russel, 1740, '43, '45, '46, '54, 59, '63, '64, '65, '66. 
Nathaniel Hill, 1741, '42, '44, '46, '50. 
Jona. Fairbank, 1741. 

Richard Sanger, 1741, '48, '51, '54, '56, '57, '58, '60, '61, '67. 
James Cooledge, 1744, '53. 
Eleazer Holbrook, 1745. 
Edward Learned, 1745, Cpt., '50, '55. 
Thos. Morse, 1745. 
Joseph Frost, 1743. 
Amos Cooledge, 1746, '55. 
Jona. Lealand, 1747, '57, '67. 
Nathaniel Holbrook, 1747, '50, '56, '57. 
Caleb Leland, 1747, ? 55, '61, '62 : Cpt. '67, '68. 
Jona. Partridge, 1748. 
Gershom Piatt, 1748, '56. 
Eben. Twitchell, 1748 ; jun., '59. 
Jona. Holbrook, 1749, '66. 
Jabez Stratten, 1749. 
John Fisk, 1749. 
David Perry, 1751. 
Joseph Craekbone, 1751. 
Joseph or John Ware, 1752. 
Thos. Russel, 1752, '53. 

Joshua Lealand, 1752, '57, '63, '64, '77, '79, (see next pa*e.) 
Joseph Twitchell, 1752, '60, '67, '70, '71 ; Cpt. '78, '74, 76, '77. 
Eleazer Morse, 1753. 
Addington Gardner, 1753. 

Jona. Twitchell, 1754, '61, '63, '64, '65 ; Dea. '70, '72. 
Eleazer Lealand, 1756. 
Joseph Lealand, 1758. 
John Ware, 1758. 

Doct. Bela Lincoln, 1760, '61 ; Esq. '62, '63. 
Samuel Ballard, 1760, '62, '63, 'M, '68, '69, '72 ; Col. '75, '78. 
Ezra Holbrook, 1761, '67. 
Moses Perry, 1762. 
Daniel Whitney, 1764, '70, '73, '74, '76, 'S2, (see next page.) 



314 HISTORY OF SHERBOBHST. * 

John Morse, 1765. 

Henry Lealand, 1765, '66, '69, '72, '75. 
Asa Holbrook, 1766. 
Ezra Holbrook, 1767, '68, '69. 
Benj. Kendall, 1768, '70, '78. 
Benj. Whitney, 1768. 
Jonas Greenwood, 1769, '76. 
Simon Leland, 1769, '75. 
Peter Bullard, 1770. 
Capt. Andrew Newell, 1771 ; Esq., '82. 
Samuel Sanger, 1771, '77, '80, '81, '82. 
Malachi Babcock, 1771. 
Elisha Barber, 1771. 
Benj. Fasset, 1772, '73, '76, '77, '80. 
Curtis Goulding, 1772. 
Jedediah Phips, 1773, '80. 
Nathaniel Prentice, 1773. 
Samuel Clark,'1773, '83. 
Thos. Holbrook, 1774. 
Jesse Morse, 1774. 
Jona. Russell, Jan., 1775, '76, '79. 
llopestill Leland, 1775, '78. 
Timothy Daniels, 1776. 
John Grout, 1776. 
Timothy Hill, 1778, '89, '92, '93. 
John Fisk, 1778, '86, '87, '91, 92. 
Jedediah Sanger, 1779, '80, '81. 
Amos Perry, 1779, '81. 
Joseph Ware, 1779, '81, '90. 
Benj. Bullard, 1780. 
Moses Holbrook, 1780, '81. 

John Ware, 1782, '83, '84, '85. '86, '88, '89, '90. 
Micha Leland, 1782, '84. 
Col. Joshua Leland, 1783, '84, '90. 
Cpt. Joseph Twitchell, 1783, '84. 
Jona. Morse, 1783. 

Daniel Whitney, Esq., 1784, '8G, '88, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, ' 
'95, 1800, '01, '02, '03. 
Saml. Sanger, 1785. 
James Hill, 1785. 

Jona. Russel, 1785, '87, '88, '94, '96. 
Daniel Cooledge, 1785, '94, '97, '12, '14. 
Adam Leland, 1786, '89. 
Doct. Timothy Sheppard, 1788. 
Benj. Whitney, 1787. 
John Whitney, 1794. 
Abner Mason, 1787. 
Dea. Wm. Tucker, 1787, '90. 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 315 

Hopestill Leland, 1788. 

Cpt. Aaron Gardner, 1788. 

Jona. Leland, 1789, '91, '95. 

Converse Bigelow, 1790, '95, '98, 1802, '03, '07, '08. 

Joseph Ware, 1791, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96. 

Benj. Ware, 1793, '99, 1801, '02, '03, '11, '12, '13. 

Silas Stone, 1793, 1801, '08, '09, '14. 

Doct. Jona. Tay, 1795, '96, '97, '98, '99, 1800, '01, '03, '04, '05, 
'06, '07. 

John Sanger, 1796, '98, '99, 1800, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '07, '08, 
'09. 

Dea. Win. Clark, 1796, '97. 

Samuel Clark, 1797. 

Dr. Tapley Wyth, 1798, 1800, '01, '06, '09, '10. 

Elias Grout, 1*799. 

Nathan Grout, 1804, '11, '12, '13, '15, '32. 

Moses Morse, 1804, '04, '05, '06. 

Asa Sanger, 1804, '07. 

Samuel Leland, 1805, '07. 

Cpt. Samuel Learned, 1806, '09, '10. '17. 

Lt. Joseph Daniel, 1806, '11. 

Joseph Cooledge, 1808, '10, '12, '14, '16. 

ElishaRockwood, 1808. 

Calvin Sanger, Esq., 1809, '10, '11, '14, '28. 

Apollos Pond, 1810, '11. 

James Bullard, 1813, '14, '20. 

Uriel Cutler, 1813, '28. 

John Bullard, 1815, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21. 

Eleazer Goulding, 1815. 

Henry Pratt, 1815. 

James Holbrook, 1815. 

Joseph Sanger, 1816, '21. 

Col. Isaac Whitney, 1816, '18, '19, '20, '23. 

Col. Daniel Leland, 1816, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23. 

Daniel Leland, Jun., 1820, '21, '22, '23, '28. 

John Bigelow, 1817, '18, '19. 

James Leland, 1817. 

Alpheus Ware, 1820, '21. 

Hezekiah Morse, 1822. 

John Bullard, Esq., 1824, '28. 

John Bigelow, 1824, '25. 

Curtis Golding, 1824, '39. 

Walter Leland, 1824. 

John Leland, 1824, '34, '35, '36, '43. 

John Goulding, Senr., 1791, '92, '97, '98, '99, 1800, '04. 

Maj. John Goulding, 1818, '19, '22, '23, '25, '26, '30, '31, 32, '4". 

Daniel Leland 2d, 1825, '26, '27, '34, '35, '39, '40. 

Silas Stone, Esq., 1825, '26, '27, '28, '53. 



316 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

Joseph P. Leland, 1825, '26. 

Lemuel Leland, 2d, 1826, '27, '33, '34, '35, '36, '37, '38, '39, '40, 
'43 

Elijah Hill, 1827, '28, '29, '31. 

James Hill, 1827. 

Ziheon Hooker, 1829, '36, '41. 

Leonard Morse, 1829. 

Joseph Eames, 1829. 

Amos Perry, 1829. 

Micha Leland, 1812, '13, '17, '30, '31, '32, '33, '37. 

Alpheus Clark, 1830, '31, '34, '35, '36, '37. 

Elisha Barber, 1830. 

Daniel Paul, 1830. 

Henry Partridge, 1831, '32, '33. 

Amos Hill, 1832, '37, '38. 

Braton Bullard, 1833, '34. 

Jeremiah Butler, Esq., 1833, '41, '42, '44, '49, '53. 

John Clark, 1835, '36, '37. 

Jacob Cushing, 1837, '39, '4S. 

Jacob Pratt, 1838, '54. 

Henry Bullard, 1838, '42. 

Samuel Sanger, 1839, '40. 

Charles Rockwood, 1841. 

Dalton Goulding, Esq., '42, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53. 

Benj. Dowse, 1822, '23, '43, '44, '53. 

Tho. Bispham, 1844, '46. 

Nathl. Dowse, 1845, '46. 

Daniel W. Bullard, 1845, '46, '47. 

David Daniels, 1847. 

Tho. J. Morse, Esq., 1847. 

Royal Stone, 1848, '49, '50, '51, '53. 

Warren Whitney, 1850, '51, '52, '53. 

Lyman Whitney, 1852, '53, '54. 

Rev. Amos Clark, 1853. 

James Bullard, 1854. 

TOWN CLERKS, AND TIME. OF SERVICE. 

Obadiah Morse, 1677-'87, 1695-98, 1702 and 1704. 

Edward West, 1688, 1693-'4. 

Jona. Fairbank, 1699-1701. 

John Cooledge, 1705-'10. 

William Rider, Jun., 1713-'21, 1723-'5, and 1729. 

John Goulding, 1722. 

William Greenwood, 1726-'8, and 1735-'56. 

William Leland, 1730-'4. 

Joseph Perry, Esq., A. M., 1757-9. 

Joseph Twitchell, 1760-'71 . 

Samuel Bullard, 1772. 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 317 

Daniel Whitney, Clerk, 1773, Clerk and Treasurer/ 1775-'81. 
Joseph Ware, Clerk and Treasurer, 1782-'3, 1791-'96, and 1798. 
John Ware, do. and do., 1784-'6,and 1788-'90. 
Wm. Tucker, do. and do., 1787. 
Samuel Sanger, do. and do., 1797. 
Elias Grout, do. and do., 1799. 

Calvin Sanger, do. and do., 1800-'14, and 1816-'19, 1821-'27, 1829, 
1831, and 1834. 

Nathan Grout, do. and do., 1815. 
Daniel Leland, do. and do., 1820-'23. 
Dal ton Goulding, do. and do., 1825-32. 
Silas Stone, do. and do., 1833-'7. 
Alpheus Clark, do. and do., 1838-'54. 

REPRESENTATIVES. 

Thos. Sawin, 1703. 

Jona. Morse, 1706, and 1707. 

Samuel Bullard, 1708, 1709 and 1723, '24 and '25. 

Eleazer Holbrook, 1711 and 1720. 

Joseph Morse, 1715. 

Benjamin Whitney, 1716. 

Wm. Rider, Jun., 1719. 

John Holbrook, Senr., 1722. 

John Death, 1721, '28, '30, '38, '39 and '40. 

Henry Leland, 1726. 

Isaac Cooledge, Esq., 1729, '43, '46, '52, '53. 

William Leland, 1735. 

Joseph Perry, Esq., 1741. 

Wm. Greenwood, 1747. 

Joseph Twitchell, 1772, '73. 

Samuel Bullard, 1774. 

RiTharc^Sanger, } Members of Provincial Congress, Feb. 1, 1775. 

Daniel Whitney, member of Provincial Congress, May 31, 1775, and 
'76 ; member of the Convention to form the State Constitution, 1780 ; 
Rep. 1781, '83, '84, '85, '88, '89, '91, '92, '94, '95, '96, '98, '99, 
1800, '01, '03 ; member of the Convention to ratify the Federal Con- 
stitution, 1788. 

Wm. Tucker, 1787. 

Calvin Sanger, 1806, '09, '10, '11, '12, '14, '16, '21, '23, '24 ; 
member of the Convention to amend the Constitution, 1820. 

Tapley Wythe, 1813. 

John Bullard, 1819. 

Silas Stone, 1830, '35, '36, '37. 

Micha Leland, 18o2. 

John Goulding, 1833. 

* The two offices were then first permanently united 



B13 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 

Joseph Sanger, 1840. 
John Leland, 1843, '44. 
Amos Clark, Rev., 1845. 
Jacob Pratt, 1848. 
Alpheus Clark, 1838, '39, '51, '52. 

Dal ton Goulding, Esq., member of Convention to amend the State 
Constitution, 1853, and rep., 1854. 
Malachi Babcock, 1855. 

POPULATION. 

In 1674, when incorporated, S. contained about 108 souls ; in 1721, 
three years before Holl. -was set off, she had about 408 souls ; in 1764, 
there were 113 families and 630 inhabitants ; in 1820, 811 do. ; in 
1830, 900 do. ; and in 1850, 1043 do. During the last 5 years, in con- 
sequence of the introduction of shoe manufactories, her population has 
increased more rapidly, and may now amount to 1,400. 

EDUCATION. 

S. from the first was attentive to education ; and she has furnished 
for her population a rare number of graduates, mostly the sons of lay- 
men. In 1770, Rev. Dr. Locke, and after him, Rev. Mr. Brown, kept 
schools for preparing young men for college. In 1825, an edifice was 
erected, principally by subscription, in which Rev. Mr. Clark and 
others gave regular instruction in the Classics and higher branches of 
English ; and which has of late years continued to be thus used only 
for an Autumn term. The town, first divided into 3 districts, now con- 
sists of 7. Each is furnished with a neat and commodious school-house, 
in which a school is supported by liberal grants from the town for a 
term, varying with the number of scholars, from 5 to 8 months in a 
year. Improvements in the organization and management of the schools 
are anticipated, and a High School, under favorable circumstances, is 
about to go into operation. 

A circulating library of good size and well-chosen volumes is owned by 
an association, and a great variety and number of periodicals are weekly 
received. Lyceums and meetings for the discussion of various subjects, 
(some of late on agriculture,) Sunday schools and Bible classes have been 
established for years ; and the modern practice of employing distinguished 
lecturers from abroad has been introduced, much to the amusement, if 
not profit of the young. 

GEOLOGY. 

Primitive crystalline rocks outcrop abundantly in the S. W. and E. 
parts of the town ; and altered mica slate in the central and W. parts. 
Superimposed upon these is a deep deposit of very coarse drift, con- 
sisting of large bowlders and angular fragments of ledges, situated 
invariably to the North, at a distance varying from a few paces to forty 
miles. The ledges, when uncovered, reveal the marks of the drift always 
pointing in the direction from which it was urged by the waves aud 



HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 819 

currents of a former sea. In the valleys and meadows, and beneath the 
ponds, occur alluvial formations. Every division of the town bears 
■witness to remote volcanic action ; producing changes in the relative 
level of different tracts, altering, fracturing, dislocating, and overturning 
rocks of aqueous origin and former horizontal position, and forcing 
through them mineral matter in a state of fusion, forming veins and 
dykes of a different rock. The mica slate formation exhibits all these 
effects. On the common, it is traversed by veins of quartz, and N. of 
the plain it is the wall-rock of an eruption of porphyritic trap. 

S. contains 4 remarkable uplifts, viz. : Pocasset Mountain in the S. 
part, City Hill in the W. ; Brush Hill in the N. W., and Peter's Hill 
in the N. The latter, upraised apparently by a force acting in a S. W. 
direction, leaving its adjoining strata to subside and become deep buried 
at its base, must originally have presented a perpendicular wall of about 
75 feet in height, and ^ m. in length. This, acted upon by water, frost, 
and gravity, now presents a bold and rocky talus, almost inaccessible, 
yet yielding a thrifty growth of wood. 

Brush Hill is the highest land in S., and affords an extensive and 
delightful prospect, of such easy access as to invite admirers of nature 
from abroad. It admits of cultivation on all sides to its summit. City 
Hill and Pocasset Mountain are mere cones of almost naked rocks. 

In the E. part of the town are indications of the presence of icebergs 
stranded during the period of the drift. The basins of Farm Lake and 
the meadow immediately E. of it seem to have been formed by one 
which kept its moorings until the sea had piled up gravel to a great 
depth on the N. side, and filled two fissures with the same, which on 
the melting of the iceberg formed the narrow bank on the E side of the 
lake, and the island near the S. shore. One fourth of a mile N. W. 
of the lake others appear to have lodged and occasioned in a similar 
way the ridge over which the road passes, between two deep basins still 
partially filled with water. 

MINERALOGY. 

Near the W. line of S., on the farm of Messrs. Warren & James R. 
Whitney, occurs a bed of sienite, which from its proximity to the R. R. 
promises to be extensively quarried. The presence of iron in City 
Hill and in a swamp near Fram., is reported by the magnetic needle. 
On and about the common, crystals of epidote, the associate mineral of 
copper, have been obtained ; and around the same locality have been 
deposited bowlders of limestone in considerable quantities, brought, as 
may yet be verified, from Bolton. Intermingled with these, and also in 
other places, erratic blocks occur, so highly charged with pyrites of 
iron, as to render buildings underpinned with them liable to spontaneous 
combustion. In the E. part of the town porphyritic trap is common, 
which in one instance is associated with calcareous spar. And there 
are in this vicinity extensive depo-its of well-formed peat, of great 
prospective value to scientific agriculture. In the drift have been found 
rose quartz, white carnelian, brucite, jasper, asbestos, &c. 



320 HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 



LAKES AND PONDS. 



Most of these which anciently existed had made their escape long 
prior to the arrival of the pale faces ; giving room to those aquatic 
reeds and grasses which, like those of Western prairies, formed a sward 
that bid defiance to the encroachment of trees. Before the wearing 
away of the rock at the Narrows, a deep lake covered the Broad 
Meadows. Farm Lake, in the E. part of the town, near Charles R., 
remains, covering about 200 acres. It is a beautiful sheet of water, 
fed entirely by springs, and subject only to the slightest oscillations. It 
has an outlet, preserving its waters pure in midsummer ; and is well 
stored with pickerel, perch, &c. It has within a few years been 
furnished with sail-boats, a house of entertainment, and conveniences 
for bathing, and become a place of much resort during the watering 
season. The scenery is highly rural. Little Pond, covering about 40 
acres, is 1 m. N. of this, and has little besides fish to attract visitors. 

SPRINGS. 

S. is well supplied with salubrious springs, and a surface admitting 
of their artificial formation. Most of the streams by which the town 
is -drained, take their rise on the sides of Brush Hill, at an altitude 
sufficient for the conveyance of the water to the dwellings and farm 
houses of a large proportion of the inhabitants. A mineral spring, of 
ancient celebrity, exists on the S. side of Little Pond ; but the most 
efficacious ones remain to be created ; perhaps by draining the meadow 
E. of Farm Lake, tapping it beneath its bank, and drawing its waters 
tardily through conduits, charged with the soluble salts contained 
in celebrated medicinal waters. Such springs at this place of increas- 
ing resort might possibly remunerate the cost of construction, and 
perhaps benefit valetudinarians, and prove a cheaper remedy for home- ' 
sickness than those of Saratoga. 

STREAMS. 

The streams which drain the township and supply mill sites, are 
Sewall's Br.,m,the S. E., Dopping and W. Sherborn Brs.,in the S. W., 
Chestnut or Coarse Br., in the-N. W., and Sawin's Br., in the N. E. 
They were formerly considerable streams, and drove mills for a greater 
number of months in the year than at present. 

METEOROLOGY. 

On the higher grounds, exposed to currents from the ocean, the 
temperature is more uniform, and vernal frosts seldom occur ; but 
where the surface is arenaceous and depressed, as in the E. part, liabilities 
to this evil, both in spring and autumn, are increased. Yet the crops in 
S. are as certain as in any conterminous town. The frequency and 
amount of rain deposited have vastly diminished since the highest 
grounds have been denuded of their lofty and thick forests. While 
these remained, they occasioned a greater elevation of currents charged 
with humidity, facilitated the intermixture of warm and cold atmos- 



"HISTORY OF SHERBORN. 321 

pheres, and thereby secured a greater reduction of temperature, the 
formation of more clouds, and the descent of more water. 

The restoration of such forests in S. and throughout the State is 
a great desideratum, and ought to be a subject of legislative action. 
In an age of miracles, the prophet prayed rain from heaven : but the 
freemen of Mass. have power to legislate it from the air ; and while 
they hold fasts in droughts and pray for showers, let them use the 
means ordained at creation for bringing them. 

SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS. 

The soil is generally rocky and of difficult tillage, yet fertile. Its 
inorganic constituents have resulted from the disintegration and decom- 
position of the rocks and pebbles with which it is so plentifully mixed ; 
and it is minevalogically identical with them. Where they change, so 
do the soil and the uses to which it is best adapted. The alkaline 
phosphates never abounded in any part of it, nor have they been sup- 
plied by the weathering of the rocks so fast as they have been absorbed 
and removed. The soil, therefore, is not well adapted to the growth of 
the cereal grains. The mica slate, which might have been cut by a 
spade, had Adam's sons arrived some geological periods earlier, has 
by volcanic heat been rendered intensely hard, yet where naked, or 
reached by the atmosphere, it weathers rapidly, supplying the pabulum 
of plants, and especially of the apple, in as great variety as any other 
rock, or greater. One of its results has been clay, mixed with the drift, 
however coarse, insuring through capillary attraction the ascent of 
water in seasons of drought, preventing trees from prematurely shed- 
ding their fruit. And as the mica slate drift covers more than half of 
the township, and is often deeper than the vertical range of the apple, 
none need wonder at the celebrity of S. for apples, cider, and vinegar ; 
nor charge her with vain presumption if she shall aspire, as a fruit- 
growing town, to the first rank in Mass. Her geographical position, 
and meteorology, the constituents of her soil, the interests and neces- 
sities, the intelligence, industry, and enterprise of her population, guided 
by the light of science, almost insure her this distinction. 

The soil in the N. W. and E. parts of S., is easier of cultivation, 
more attracting in appearance, and contains valuable orchards and 
cranberry beds, but has no mica slate. Its pebbles and few bowlders 
are hard, and weather slow ; and more time is needed for the repairing 
principle to perform its office. Some tracts are deficient in alumine, 
and the sand and pebbles too coarse for the ascent of water or culture 
of productive orchards. These, for the most part, have been abandoned 
to forest trees, from the growth and sale of which, for firewood and 
timber, good profits are derived. The soil is excellent for grass and 
pasturage. The produce of the dairy, the sty, and the stall, continue, as 
formerly, to be chief staples, and also that of vegetable gardens. 

MANUFACTORIES, STORES, &C. 

These are few in number, and mostly conducted on a small scale. 
Mr. Nath'l Dowse, and Dea. Lowell Cooledge & Co., carry on the manu- 
8 



322 HISTORY OF SHERI50RN.* 

facture of shoes quite extensively ; Messrs. Benj. & Joseph Dowse, 
that of whips ; Mr. Malachi Rabcock, that of knives ; and Messrs. 
Flemings, that of willow baskets. A large building has been erected 
by Mr. Palcmon Bickford, for the manufacture of straw goods, and 
this branch of business is being introduced. Many are extensively 
engaged in making vinegar, and some still in clarifying cider. 

S. contains a post office, of which Jeremiah R. Hawes is P. M. ; three 
stores, for the sale of dry goods and groceries, by Messrs. Geo. & Chas. 
A. Clark, and Tho. J. Morse, Esq. ; one do. by Messrs. J. R. Hawes 
and Henry W. Bullard, for that of shoes, &c. ; and one by Mr. And. 
Becker (p. 245) for that of clothing, and is supplied with a requisite 
number of skilful carpenters, stonecutters, and other mechanics. 

Ancient Garrisons. 

Besides the three garrisons mentioned on pp. 24, 91, and 278, there 
were two others, viz., one near Holbrook's mills, another N. of Edward's 
plain, near Nath'l Dowse's, all built at private expense, and the three 
last, after Philip's war. At the commencement of the Revolution a build- 
ing was erected near Dea. Fisk's, for the storage of provisions for the 
army, and a guard stationed over it. 

Cemeteries. 

These are eight in number, viz. : 

1. The ancient South End, [see p. 25] which received the body of 
Hopestill Layland, 1655. 

2. The Farm ditto that of Daniel Morse, senr., 1688. 

3. The Central, [see p. 233] " in which ye first grain was sown," 
June ye 17, 1686. 

4. The Brush Hill, in which the first interment was in 1785. 

5. The New South, ditto ditto, March 2, 1790. 

6. The Plain, ditto ditto, 1792. 

7. The West Sherborn, ditto ditto, 1825, and perhaps earlier. 

8. The New Central, most judiciously chosen by Dr. Everett, and 
laid out with much taste by Capt. Jacob Pratt, received, as its first de- 
posit, the remains of the lamented Dr. Everett in 1852, and the bones 
of Rev. President Locke in 1853. May it be further consecrated by 
the removal of those of Rev. Messrs. Gookin, Baker, and Porter. 

The mineral character of this ground is eminently adapted to the 
preservation of the bones of the dead, and its situation to defend 
it against the sacrilegious encroachments of avarice, and the negligence 
of barbarism. It even claims attention from residents of the city in 
quest of lots more secure than those at Mount Auburn. For when the 
hearts of the children shall become wholly turned from the fathers, 
the land bereft of present security, and the metropolis subjected to 
another siege, Mount Auburn may be needed for a fort, and its monu- 
ments for a breastwork ; while - in S., the contest may be decided 
on the plain, with shoe-knives, shillalahs and brickbats. 



HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 



Holliston is situated between 22 and 28 miles S. W. of Boston, on 
the Milford Branch of the Boston and Worcester R. Road, and con- 
stitutes the S. W. corner of Middlesex Co. It has Medway on the S., 
Milford on the W., Hopkinton on the N. W., Ashland on the N., and 
Sherborn on the E. It began to be explored and settled long prior to 
its incoporation as an integral part of Sherborn. As early as May 26, 
1659, W'pfulMaj. Eleazer Lusher, of Dedh., "one of the right stamp 
and pure mettle, a gracious, humble, and heavenly-minded man," dis- 
tinguished for his public services, received a grant from the General 
Court, [see p. 268] of the land now occupied by most of the Village. 
The lot was laid out by Lt. Joshua Fisher the same year. The N. ex- 
tremity of it extended beyond Jar Brook, and probably touched the S. 
line of Natick, and the S. extremity reached to a point opposite to the 
Winthrop House. It had Jasper's Hill on the W. , and through it 
flowed Bogistow Brook. This tract Lusher sold 15 (5) 1660, to my 
ancestor, Lt. Henry Adams of Medfield, who no doubt took immediate 
possession and mowed the meadows that year. Here he placed his 
cattle, and elder sons as herdsmen, and especially Jasper who gave 
name to " Jasper's Hill," from the top of which he could, by signal 
fires, communicate with his father near his own door in Medfield. A 
tenement, if not a farmery, Lt. Adams doubtless erected upon the 
place, and circumstances almost prove that he built 1-3 m. N. of the 
Common where Col. Whiting resides. Here Jasper Adams is pre- 
sumed to have lived unmarried, often visited and attended by his 
father, * until driven off in 1676 by Indian hostilities, a period of 
14 years, f 

* Lt. Adams did not permanently remove to his new farm, though his name is 
enrolled with the petitioners for Sherborn, and with those of the grantees at their 
first meeting in 1675-6 "for ordering the affairs" of the town; for in 1674 he 
represented Medfield in the G. C, and had the command of her training band in 
1675-6, when he was massacred. [See p. 1.] 

Lt. Adams and wife having died intestate, leaving children in their minority, the 
farm was doubtless sold to Hon. Wm. Brown of Salem, whose son, Hon. Col. 
Samuel B. owned it in 1725, and until his death, June 19, 1731. In 1744 it 
was in the hands of his heirs ; and Jacob Foster, presumed to have been one 
of them, sold to Dea. James Russell for £360 O. T., [or $160 in Fed. money] 
50 acres of it, bounded E. and N. E. by Bogistow and Jar Brooks. May 15, 1745, 
having come into possession of the remaining 200 acres, he sold them to Jona. 
Foster for £200 N. Eng. currency, " excepting" in the deed "land for highways and 
private ways [to the meeting house] and 5 acres E. of the country road and adjoin- 
ing to the highway leading out of it to the pond," viz. : the land that had doubtless 
been preconveyed to Rev. Mr. Prentice for a house lot, now situated E. and S. E. of 
the common. In this deed, he mentions the land of Mr. Prentice and David Lea- 
land as forming parts of the S, or S. W. boundaries of the tract, and includes about 
5 acres of the Pond meadow, and speaks of a way two rods wide laid out by Lt. 
Fisher from the 250 acre lot to the Pond meadow, through the land of Francis 
Varnum. This shows that the 12 acres of meadow included with Lusher's grant, 
[see p. 26S] were not on Chicken Brook, but on the outlet of AVinthrop's Lake, and 
suggests that the aboriginal name of that Lake was Winnekening, which the sur- 



324 HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 

The second planter of Holliston was Wm. Sheffield, who settled at 
Chabboquasset, near the S. E. corner of the town, but not certainly 
before 1674, although he was the proprietor of a large tract at 
the place as early as 1663, (not 1673, as on p. 240) and extinguished 
the Indian claim in 1675. He probably resided in Medfield, and like 
Lt. Adams occupied his tract 1663-1674. Further than these no oc- 
cupancies appear to have occurred thus early, nor until about 1680 ; 
and then, only by proprietors of grants made prior to the incorporation 
of S. Sheffield was early upon the ground, and the encouragement 
given by the town [p. 284] soon drew Lind to commence the building 
of a mill below the junction of Bogistow and Jar brooks. But the 2d 
division of the common lands of S. which included all now in H., was 
not made until 1682, and other settlers were until then excluded. 
Complete preparation was soon after made for taking possession of 
these lands; for Oct. 13, 1686, John Hill, senr., Benj. Bullard, Oba- 
diah Morse, Jona. Morse, and Edward West, in the name of the inhabi- 
tants of Sherborn, purchased for .£10 [see pp. 270-1] of John 
Awasamog 2,000 acres, more or less, it being [the remainder of] all 
that tract granted to the town by the G. C, sitting Oct. 7, 1674, and 
bounded W. by Mr. Edward Rawson. * 

veyor, in this solitary instance, applied to the outlet, either, not discovering that it 
was the identical stream which he had a day or two before called Bogistow Brook 
in his description of the grant, he first laid out to Dean AVinthrop and Francis 
Vernon, alias Varnum, or, wishing to make more certain his description of these 
outlets, only one of which seems to have been upon the brook, while the other was 
nearer the W. shore of the lake, he applied to the stream the name of the Lake from 
which it issues. The meaning of the word AVinne, is pleasant, and derived from 
two Indian words denoting the smile of the Great Spirit. This might, to barbarians, 
have seemed applicable to the Lake with its four islands and diversified banks, but 
by no means that can be conjectured to a stagnant brook without a romantic bank or 
enlivening fall in its entire course, [see p. 2G8, and on all preceding pp. for Wennekeen- 
ing read Chicken Br.] The long desired discovery of the true Indian name of our 
lake seems to be made ; and our AVinnekening House may yet supplant the AVinthrop, 
and AVinnekening Lake that of AVinthrop's Pond. The laying of a road through 
the land of A r arnum shows that the AV. part, 200 of the 700 acres granted to him and 
AVintrop, was assigned to V. This tract was probably purchased by the Hon. John 
Hull of Boston, and inherited by his only child the wife of the Hon. Samuel Sewall, 
who after the death of Hull was with his children the proprietor of a farm south of 
Brown's. After the death of Sewall in 1735, if not before, this farm, consisting 
probably of 200 acres, appears to have been divided, and the N. part owned by David 
Lealand,? the S. part by Capt. Goulding, and the N. AV. corner by Rev. Mr. Stone. 
The first occupancy of this grant by tenants, is supposed to have commenced where 
the late Dea. Marsh resided, and as early as 1680. (?) 

t Jasper retired to the settlement in S., drew land in 1682, and afterwards moved 
with his cattle and built his cabin against a ledge, about 6 rods AV. of a spring, and 
about 12 rods S. E. of the Morse meadow, where the trace of his cellar and natural 
fireplace in the rock is now plainly to be seen. The land was then owned, or had 
previously been, by John Frairy jun., of Medfield, in which it continued to be 
included until 1713. Here Jasper lived in double solitude for many years, and 
nearly to the time of his grand nephew, Henry Morse's taking possession of the lot. 
AVhen advanced in years, he retired to S., where he " died an aged bacheldor." 

*liawson owned a " farm" of 2,000 acres, now in Milfd, which, as described in 
his Indian deed of 1685, fell entirely within the card-shaped plat of S, being bound- 
ed E. by Medfield, S. by Dedham, AV. by Mendon and N. by Sherborn, [common 
lands]. It was afterwards laid out pr. on the AV. side of his two great Indian pur- 
chase and annexed to Mendon, by which event S. lost a corner of her protracted 
territory, and the AV. line [now of II.] was rendered so irregular. 



HISTORY OP HOLLISTON. 325 

No considerable number of families, however, had settled in H. so 
early as 1700 ; and in 1723, when the settlers petitioned to be set 
off from S., the petition was subscribed by only 13 freeholders, [p. 297]^ 
doubtless a majority, and probably all except 5 then located W. of 
the line between the two townships. For the history of the incorpora- 
tion of H. see pp. 296-99. This happy event occurred Dec. 3, 1724, 
just 50 years from her incorporation with S., and 72 years after the 
first settlement W. of Charles River ; so slow was the progress of set- 
tlements in N. Eng'd, after the first emigrations in 1620-41. 

The township at its incorporation comprised 15,086 acres. In 1826 
it underwent a small reduction by an exchange of territory with Med- 
way, and a larger one in 1846 by the incorporation of Ashland. 

Dec. 21, 1724, 18 days after H. was erected into a town the free- 
holders met at the house of Timothy Lealand, where Wm. Lovering re- 
sides, and according to the provisions of the act, elected town officers. 
" This gave the first impulse to the operations of this infant member of 
the body politick." 

Jan. 4, 1724-5, only 11 days later, they resolved to erect a meeting- 
house, 32 ft. by 40 ft. with 20 ft. posts and to assess £100 Old Tenor, 
i. e. about $44.45 cents on the inhabitants towards defraying the cost, 
and to allow each man assessed the privilege of paying one-half of his 
rate in labor. This house was founded the next year and " completed 
in 1728," at a cost of little more than another ,£100. It was seated in 
1749, repaired and enlarged in 1772, and remained the only house of 
worship in H. until the erection of the present Congregational Church in 
1824. 

1725. The next subject which engaged the attention of the town was 
the location of the House which they had resolved to build. Col. Samuel 
Brown, of Salem, seems to have promised them a site, but they hesitated 
from which corner of his farm to accept it. They first pitched upon the 
land that was finally accepted. But as nearly all the inhabitants then 
lived in the N. and E. parts of the town, they afterwards resolved to 
build near the comb manufactory on Jar Brook. This site they became 
convinced would not be commodious eventually to the inhabitants of the 
whole town, and they peaceably rescinded the vote, and resolved " to 
set their meeting house S. of Jasper's Hill on the W. side of the road 
that goes over [around] there on the Hon. Col. Brown's farm." A lot of 
3 acres at that place was afterwards given by Col. Samuel Brown to H. 
" to be perpetually occupied as a site for a meeting-house and burying- 
ground." * 

The town took measures the same year to procure preaching, and 
public worship was first set up at Timothy Lealand's and there continued 
while the house was being erected. 

* Do not the conditions of this grant place the land on the same footing as Boston 
Common, and if any part of the ground is ever converted, as has been proposed, to 
another use, will it not be forfeited to his heirs of which he has many in the vicinity, 
able to prove their heirship and prosecute their claim ? and when improvements shall 
have greatly enhanced its value may they not be expected to do so ? N. B. " The 
act which shall forfeit the original S. E. half of the burying-ground, will likewise 
forfeit the beautified common and site of the orthodox chh." 



326 HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 

June 26, 1727. " It was voted by the inhabitants to give the sum of 
.£100 in bills of credit towards the settlement of the first Gospel minis- 
ter yt. shall be settled in ye said town. Jona. Whitney and George 
Fairbank were appointed a committee to address Hon. Samuel Sewall as 
to the obtaining a piece of land toward the settlement of a minister." In 
answer to their application, Judge Sewall May 9, 1723, and his sons, 
Samuel S. Esq., Rev. Joseph S. and son-inlaw, Rev. Wm. Cooper and 
wife Judith (Sewall) Cooper, all of Boston, signed a deed of gift con 
veying to them in trust 11 acres " for the ye sole proper use, benefit 
and behoof of ye first Orthodox, Congregational or Presbyterian minis- 
ter of ye Gospel which shall be settled in ye said town of H. and to his 
heirs and assigns forever." f 

The 2nd article in the warrant for this meeting was " peculiarly char- 
acteristic" of our fathers, and reads thus, " to choose an orthodox, 
learned and pious person to dispense the word of God as a minister of the 
gospel in.ye said town." The result of the meeting was an invitation to 
Mr. James Stone to undertake the work of the ministry in II. But as 
the meeting-house was not finished, and no church as yet organized, his 
ordination was defered until Nov. 20, 1728. Then a church of 8 mem- 
bers including the pastor elect was organized, and he the same day or- 
dained. " Previous to the solemn and interesting occasion, a day of 
fasting and prayer was observed, a practice still followed for the purpose 
of devoutly seeking the divine blessing on such transactions." 

Besides a settlement of £ 100 O. T. , i. e. about $44, the town promised 
Rev. Mr. S. a salary of £75, i. e. $33.33, and to increase it to £85 on 
the addition of 20 more families to the Parish. In 1742 it was raised 
to <£150 or $67. The salary of his successor was equally humble in 
amount. 

" Rev. Mr. Stone, pursuant to ye choice and election of ye Church 
and Town of H., and with ye concurance and assistance of a council of 
neighbor Churches having accepted ye Pastoral office in said town and 
received ordination, it was resolved that Jona. Whitney and George Fair- 
bank make conveyance to him of their interest in the land given in trust 
by Hon. Samuel Sewall and children." This conveyance they accord- 
ingly made Jan. 2, 1729-30 ; and the same year was built as is pre- 
sumed for Mr. S. the ancient house still in repair and so long known as 
the Stone Tavern. 

May 16, 1729, voted thatDea. Tho. Marshall andDea. Timothy Lea- 
land be a committee fully empowered by said town and desired to pro- 
cure and provide £100 in bills of credit and then forthwith to pay it to 
ye Rev. Mr. Stone according as ye Town have voted. Also that they 
go to ye Hon. Samuel Brown, Esq., for money and take up £100 upon 
interest on ye town's account if his Honr. pleases. Col. Brown died 
June 19, 1731, and the town by a vote acknowledged their obligations 
to his heirs for the aid they had received, and instructed a committee to 
remind them of " hit promise to make it up £100." 

t This 11 acre lot was a corner of their farm of probably 200 acres. Upon it now 
stands the Winthrop House and most of the S. W. quarter of the village. It was 
bounded S. (or S. E.) by the road, 94 perches ; W. by Adams alias Sheffield's land 
56 rods, and N. by Col. Brown's farm 60 rods. 



HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 327 

1737-8. The town was divided into 3 districts, viz. : the North, 
the West, and the Central, and it was resolved that three school houses 
should be built, viz. : one for the N. between John Haven's and Lt. Isaac 
Bullard's, 14 ft. by 18 ft. with 7 ft. posts ; one of the same dimensions 
for the W. between Joseph Brown's (now Messinger's), and Hoppin 
River; and another for the central district, 16 ft. by 20; that £100 be 
assessed upon the inhabitants to defray the cost, and that each man have 
liberty to work out life part of the assessment : That Gershom Eames, 
Ephm. Biglow and Sol. Park be the building committee for the N. ; 
Ebenr. Littlefield, Benj. Bullard and James Perry for the W. ; and 
Ephm. Twitchell, John Death and Jacob Foster for the Central district. 
The latter house was built in the street E. of the graveyard, the deed to 
the town of 3 acres adjacent not allowing even a school house to be 
placed upon it. This house continued to be used by the central district 
until about 1805. The No. of Districts have since been trebled, and 
education liberally promoted. But the most important event in the 
history of education in H. has been the erection of Mt. Hollis Academy 
on the S. side of Mt. Jasper. [See p. 250.] 

1739 voted to raise £8 to make the stocks and to fence in the bury- 
ing ground ; and chose a committee to put the law in force for prevent- 
ing the destruction of deer. 

1742 voted £60 to defray the expense of Rev. Mr. Stone's funeral. 

1746-7 voted to remove (vacate) 2 rods of the S. side of a road laid 
out 3 rods wide by Sherborn in 1683 from the further side of Parker's 
Farm (grant) now E. of Maj. Goulding's in S. across (around) Jasper's 
Hill to the cedar swamp ; and to accept it at the S. end of said hill, so 
that the inhabitants on the W. side of H. might have a convenient way 
to the meeting house. The narrowing or discontinuing of the western 
part of this road has been the occasion of much uneasiness and trouble to 
individuals and the public. 

1748. The families residing in the S. W. extremity of the town be- 
tween Medway and Milford, petitioned to be incorporated as a part of 
the W. Parish of Medway. While their petition was pending, the town 
forwarded a remonstrance to the G. C. without effect. 

1749. The town was fined £5 for not keeping a school as required 
by law. » 

Until this date the meeting house had been furnished only with tem- 
porary seats. This year it was internally completed and the town chose 
a committee " to dignify the seats." This committee reported that " the 
fore seat below should be considered the 1st in dignity, and the 2d be- 
low do. the 2d in dignity ; and the 3d below and the front seat in the 
gallery do. equal, and the 3d in dignity, &c, assigning to the seats 7 
degrees of dignity. Whether seats built for the colored people were 
dignified, or they required to sit upon the stairs, has not been discovered. 
The committee proposed that " the invoice taken in 1748 should be the 
rule " for seating the meeting, " having a proper regard to age." Their 
report was accepted by the town ; but Geo. Fairbank, John Lealand, John 
Twitchell, Stephen and Jona. Foster protested, 1st, that the meeting was 



328 HISTORY OF IIOLLISTON. 

not regularly carried on ; 2nd, that it was not opened according to law ; 
and 3d, that the rule of seating the meeting was not according to law 
or reason. Capt. John Goulding by a vote of the town was allowed to 
build a pew next to the pulpit stairs ; and Ebenezer Lealand, the father 
of Dea. Timothy, to build a second remove from that point of honour. 
Two other pews were probably allowed on the other side of the pulpit, 
and the one next to it given to the minister. Joseph Johnson was 
permitted to build on the right, and Isaac Bullartl on the left of the 
great doors. These pews probably accommodated most of the nobility 
who did not occupy the deacon's seat, or act as clerk and chorister. 

1753-4. From Dec. 18 to Jan. 30 of these years prevailed the 
great sickness unexampled in the history of the town, and probably of 
any other in N. England. Rev. Mr. Fitch, in his Cent. Serm. p. 32, 
says : — 

" The symptoms, which peculiarly marked the disease, were violent 
and pirceing pains in the breast or side ; a high fever ; and extreme 
difficulty of expectoration, which in some cases, — if not in most, — 
resulted in strangulation. Some, it is said, apparently in the last stages 
of the disease, were evidently relieved by administering oil, who event- 
ually recovered. No derangement of mind usually accompanied the 
disease. The sick generally survived their attack only from three to 
six days. From notes taken during the prevalence of the sickness, 
by the Rev. Joshua Prentiss, and which were found among his papers 
after his decease, we learn that on the 31st of December, 7, and on 
the 4th of January 10 lay unburied ; — that during the week on which 
the last date occurred, 17 died ; and that from 2 to 5 were buried in a 
day for many days successively. The whole number who died of this 
fatal malady was 53 ; — more than one-eighth of the population. Of this 
number 27 were heads of families — 15 males and 12 females ; — 12 
were unmarried persons of adult age — 8 males and 4 females ; — 7 
were children ; — and 7 were inhabitants of other towns, all of whom 
were males, with one exception. — In the fearful desolations produced 
by this disease, the church of Christ was bereft of 15 of its members. 
Few families escaped ; and four were entirely broken up by the removal 
of both the husband and the wife. — For more than a month there were 
not enough in health to Sttend the sick and bury the dead, though their 
whole time was employed in such services. The sick suffered, and the 
dead laid unburied, notwithstanding charitable assistance and personal 
attendance were furnished by people in the vicinity. A most remark- 
able circumstance attending this sickness is its being almost wholly 
confined to a small town, without the smallest apparent natural cause 
for its existence at all ; especially for its restriction within so narrow a 
compass. [See p. 300.] To those, however, who are disposed devoutly 
to trace whatever effects are discernable in the natural world back to 
the Great First Cause of all things, and to view every event as ordered 
and directed for some wise and righteous purpose, by his controlling 
hand, there will appear something, at least, remarkable in the facts, — 
of which there is little doubt, — that previous to the breaking out of 



HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 320 

this desolating sickness, the people were violently engaged in fierce law 
contentions, which seemed to have originated in the proceedings of the 
town upon the subject of roads ; — that two of the principal men in 
town were engaged against each other in a lawsuit about a most trifling 
matter, and were tbe first seized with the disease while on their return 
from Court, both of whom fell its speedy victims — one of them before 
he could reach home, and the other soon after, — and that immediately 
upon the removal of the scourge with which the people had been most 
sorely visited, their contentions ceased ; their tumults'were hushed, and 
peace and concord prevailed. Since that afflictive season no tow r n has 
been more noted, probably, for the little its inhabitants have troubled 
themselves with disputes in law. May the children continue to profit 
by the lesson which the sorrowful experience of their fathers furnishes 
them." 

1768. — Voted, that this town will endeavor to raise more hemp, flax 
and wool, and take all prudent and legal measures to encourage the 
produce and manufactures of this province, and to lessen the use of 
superfluities : that we accept from Mr. Daniel Mellen the gift of his 
workshop [offered for the encouragement of manufactures by the town ;] 
that we will not give more for rhum, sugar, molasses and rasons than 
what they can be bought for at Boston ; that the representatives in 
G. C. be desired to use their influence to promote a suitable encourage- 
ment for raising wool and flax in such a way as to prevent importation 
of the same : that we will not have any gloves at funerals but what are 
made in this province ; nor procure any new garment on such occasions 
but what are absolutely necessary. 

1769. — Voted, [for the first time] to send a representative to the 
G. C, and elected Mr. Joshua Hemenway, and gave him instructions 
agreeable to those given to the representatives of Boston. He then 
presented to the town 13s. 4d., which they voted to accept. 

1770. — Voted, not to purchase any European goods of John Bernard, 
James Mc Masters and other importers who had been posted, nor to 
have any dealings with any country shop-keepers who shall purchase of 
such importers ; that we will use the utmost of our endeavours to 
encourage and assist those applauded merchants of Boston in their non- 
importation agreement ; and that the Moderator, Dea. James Russell, 
communicate to them our sincere and hearty thanks for those late 
measures pursued by them for the good of their country. 

1774, March 23. — Alex. Marsh, Joshua Heminway, Aaron Phipps, 
Mathew Metcalf and Edward Durand were chosen a committee of cor- 
respondence with Boston and other towns. 

Sep. 12. Voted unanimously, to accept the report of the congress 
of Middlesex Co., at their late meeting at Concord, and chose James 
Russell to agree with a founder for two cannon, and to procure 3 half 
blls. of powder. 

1775, Jan. 9. — Voted, to adhere to the advice and association of 
Continental Congress, and that Joshua Hemingway, Timothy Rockwood, 
Joseph Bigelow, Samuel Whiting, Jacob Miller, Aaron Phipps and 

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330 HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 

Abner Johnson be a Committ. to inspect the inhabitants of the town in 
their observation and conforming to the aforesaid obligation. 

1775, March. — Voted, that no man shall serve in any town office 
who shall refuse or neglect to subscribe consent to, and compliance with 
the advice of the late Continental Congress. 

With such promptitude, decision and energy did the inhabitants of 
this town engage in the awful conflict that achieved our independence; 
and during the whole of its continuance " they bore a decided and 
honorable part. They sacrificed their property, hazarded and several 
lost their lives in the cause of liberty ; and their reward is in the 
grateful remembrance of their posterity. May we never, by our ingrat- 
itude and degeneracy, forfeit the inestimable blessings purchased for us 
at such a sacrifice." 

The number and names of officers and soldiers who served in that 
war, it may be impossible to ascertain. Among the former should be 
mentioned Col. Abner Perry, Maj. Jacob Miller and Capt. Daniel 
Eames, who were conspicuous. The remainder of such civil and eccle- 
siastical transactions, and changes, as are deemed most w.orthy of 
publication, may be gathered from pp. 69-70, from notes on the several 
pastors, and from the ensuing lists of town officers. 

PASTORS. 

•James Stone from 1728-1742. 

•Joshua Prentiss, do. 1743-1788. 

•Timothy Dickinson, do. 1789-1813. 

•Josephus Wheaton, do. 1815-1825. 

Charles Fitch, do. 1826-1832. 

Elijah Demond, do. 1832-1836. 

•JohnStorrs, 1836-1812. 

T. D. P. Stone, 1843-1849. 

Joshua T. Tucker, do. 1849-to the present time. 

GRADUATES. 

* Solomon Park, H. C, 1753 

* Jacob Foster ? H. C. 1754. 

* Nahum Marshall, gd. H. C, 1755. 
*Tho. Prentise, H. C, 1766, 
*Appleton Prentise, H. C, 1781. 
*JohnMorse,f B. U.,1791. 

* Elisha Fiske, B. U., 1795. 

* Roswell Messinger, H. U., 1797. 
*Drury Fairbanks, B. U., 1797. 

* Jason Chamberlain, B. U. 1804. 
John Goulding Thayer, 1804. 

* Luther Lealand, M. C, ab. 1806. 
Timothy Fisk,H. U., 1801. 

* Elijah Morse,f B. U., 1809. 

t T5orn in a part of Medway, since annexed to H. 



HISTORY OP HOLLISTON. 331 

Joshua P. Dickinson, B. U., 1811, and M. D. Harv., 1816. 
*Amos Whiting, B. U., 1812. 

* Martin Whiting, H. U., 1814. 
Abner Morse, t B. U., 181G. 

* Edward Dickinson, II. U., 1818. 
Sewall Harding,! U. C, 1818. 

Wm. Chamberlain Mellen, B. U., 1836. 

Charles Chamberlain, B. U., 183G 

Sewall Fisk, Middletown. C, ab. 1839. 

Frederic Lyman Batchelder, B. U.. 1839. 

George Cutler, B. U., 1839, and M. D., Harv., 1845. 

Francis Ide Wheaton, B. U., 1840. 

Roswell Cutler, M. D., Harv., U., 1847. 

Elbridge J. Cutler, II. U., 1854. 

TOWN CLERKS OF HOLLISTON AND TIMES OF SERVICE. 

John Goulding, 1724-'33. 

Solomon Park, 1734-'44. 

Daniel Emerson, 1745-'5G ; 'G0-'65, and Treasurer, 1747. 

Joseph Underwood, Clerk and Treasurer, 1757-59. 

John Stone, Clerk and Treasurer, 1766, '68-' 74. 

Joshua Heminway, 1767. 

Aaron Phipps, Clerk and Treasurer, 1775-'77. 

Joseph Mellen, 1778-'79. 

Samuel Bullard, 1780-'9G. 

James Mellen, 1797-1804. 

Jason Chamberlain, 1805-'08. 

John Fairbanks, 1809-'16. 

Elial Littlefield, Clerk and Treasurer, 1817-'30. 

Thomas Dickinson, 1831-'34. 

Elihu Cutler, Jr., 1835-'37. 

Thomas T. Rockwood, '44 and '48. 

Elias Bullard, Esq., Clerk and Treasurer, 1831-'32 ; Cl'k, 38-'39. 

Alden Leland, Clerk and Treasurer, 1833-'34. 

William E. Rockwood, 1835. 

Elijah B. Craig, Clerk and Treasurer, 1836-'37 ; Cl'k, 40-42 ? 

Hiram A. Morse, 1838, '56. 

Ebenezer H. Currier, 1840-'42 ? 

Otis B. Bullard, '43-'44. 

Abel Pond, Clerk and Treasurer, '45-'46. 

William R. Thayer, '47 and '49. 

D. Bucklin Fitts, '50. 

Edward W. Blood, '51. 

Augustus N. Currier, 1843 ; '49-'54. 

Thos. C. Andrews, '53. 

Orrin Thompson, '54. 

Geo. E. Johnson, '55. 



332 HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 

REPRESENTATIVES AND TEARS OF THEIR ELECTION. 

Joshua Hemenway, 1769. 

Abner Perry, 1775-'6-'7-'8-'9. 

Samuel Park, Esq., 1787-8. 

Dea. Moses Hill, '91. 

Capt. James Mellen, 1795~'6~'7~'8 ; 1800. 

Ephraim Littlefield, 1801-'03--'04. 

Jason Chamberlin, 1806-' 7-9-' 10-11. 

Dea. Jesse Haven, 1808. 

Lt. Timothy Rocket, 1812-'13-'16. 

Col. John Mellen, 1821. 

Elihu Cutler, Esq., 1827«'28. 

Abner Johnson, 1830-'31. 

Elias Bullard, 1 833-' 34. 

Eben. H. Currier, 1833~'34. 

Nathan Leland, 1836. 

Benjamin F. Batchelcler, 1836-'37. 

Alden Leland, 1837-'38-'42-'51. 

Daniel Perry, 1838. 

Wm. S. Batchelder, 1840. 

Sam'l Payson, 1839. 

Calvin Rockwood, 1839. 

John Nichols, 1849. 

Simeon Fisher, 1850. 

Geo. Batchelcler, 1854. 

SELECTMEN. 

John Goulding, 1724, '25, '26, '27, '28, '29, '30, '32, '33, '40. 

Wm. Sheffield, Dec. 21, 1724, '25. 

Jona. Whitney, Dec. 1724, '25, '26, '27, '28, '32, '36, '37. 

Dea. Thos. Marshall, 1724, '25, '26, '27, '30, '31, '32, '33, '34, 
'36, '37, '38, '39, '40, '41, '42, '48, '54. 

Isaac Bullard, 1724, '25, '32, '34, '36, '38, '39, '40. 

Eben'r Hill, 1724, '25. 

Joshua Underwood, 1726. 

Joseph Johnson, 1726, '28, '29, '31, '33, '36, '38, '39, '40, '42, 
'43, '45, '46. 

Isaac Foster, 1727, '31, '34, '35. 

Timothy Leland, 1727, '28, '29, '30, '31, 32, '34, '38, '39, '40, 
'43, '44, '45. 

Thos. Jones, 1728. 

John Lealand, 1729, '33, '35, '45. 

Jason Chamberlin, 1729. 

Aaron Morse, 1730, '33. 

Isaac Cozzens, 1730, '37, '46, '50. 

Benoni Adams, 1731, '34. 

Nathaniel Sheffield, 1735, '37. 

Jason Chamberlin, 1735. 



HISTOHY OF HOLLISTON. 333 

John Twitchell, 1735. 

Solomon Park, 1736, '37, '38, '39, '41, '42, '44. 

Ephraim Twitchell, 1741. 

James Perry, 1741, '43, '45, '47, '49, '51, '53. 

Jacob Foster, 1741, '43, '46, '47, '48, '49. 

Gershom Eamcs, 1742. 

Capt. Eben. Littlefield, 1742, '46, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54. 

Lieut. Eben. Marshall, 1743, '46, '47, '55. 

Joseph Hill, 1744. 

Dea. James Russel, Esq., 1744, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '66, 
'71, '73. 

Jona. Jones, 1744. 

Dea. Joseph Brown, 1745, '47, '54, '61, '62, '04. 

Ephraim Biglow, 1747. 

Daniel Emerson, 1748, '56, '65. 

John Haven, 1748, '59. 

Eli Jones, 1748, '57. 

Moses Johnson, 1749. 

Aaron Morse, Jr., 1749, '52. 

Capt, Ephraim Littlefield, 1750, '57. 

Curtis Goulding, 1750. 

Benj. Bullard, 1750, '56, '60. 

Stephen Foster, 1751, '53, '55. 

Capt. Samuel Bullard, 1751, '56, '57, '59, '61, '65, '67. 

Theodore Rider, 1751, '61. 

Lieut John Lealand, Jr., 1752, 1755, '60, '61, '65, '68, '69, '76. 

Asa Fisk, 1752, '55, '58. 

Isaac Johnson, 1752, '56, '58, '62. 

Moses Johnson, 1753. 

Jona. Jones, 1753, '55, '57. 

John Haven, 1754, '60, '62, '69. 

Joseph Underwood, 1754, '58, '59. 

Mr. John Goulding, 1756. 

Lt. Samuel Daniels, 1758. 

Daniel Jennings, 1758, '73. 

Joseph Hill, 1759 

Isaac Hill, 1759, '64, '71. 

Daniel Millen, 1760. 

Timothy Rockwood, 1761, '64, '65, 'Q6, '68, '69, '75, '76, '79. 

Col. Abner Perry, 1762, '64, '66, '68, '71, '74, '77, '78, '80, 
'82, '86, '98. 

Asa Bullard, 1763, '72, '76, '82. 

Joshua Hemingway, 1763, '71. 

Staples Chamberlin, 1763, '67, '69, '71, '75, '76, '78, '80, '81, '83, 
'84, '87, '95. 

Joseph Rider, 1765, '84. 

Isaac Bullard, 2d, 1766, '71, '80, '85, '95. 

Moses Hill, 1766, '68, '75, '91. 



334 HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 

Asa Adams, 1767. 

Daniel Mellen, 1767. 

Asaph Leland, 1767, '83, '86. 

Joseph Biglow, 1768, '74, '76, '78. 

Capt. Samuel Whiting, 1769, 1778, '80, '81. 

Jesse Adams, 1769, '77. 

Alexander Marsh, 1770. 

Joseph Gibbs, 1770. 

John Chamberlin, 1770. 

David Fisk, 1770. 

David Laaland, 177 1. 

Hachaliah Bridges, 1771. 

Dea. Aaron Phipps, 1773, '77. 

Maj. Jacob Miller, 1773. 

Enoch Chamberlin, 1773. 

John Stone, Esq., 1774, 1795. 

Lieut. Joseph Mellen, 1774, '85. 

Sam. Daniels, 1774, '79. 

Drury Fairbank, 1775. 

Simeon Newton, 1775. 

Benj. Bridges, 1777, '96, '99, 1801, '05. 

Dea. Jesse Haven, 1777, '91, '93, '94, '96, 1801. 

Jona. Wiswell, 1778, '81. 

Josiah Hemenway, 1779. 

Timothy Twitchell, 1779. 

David Johnson, 1780. 

Timothy Lealand, 2d, 1780. 

Eben Hill, 2d, 1780: 

Lieut. Joseph Johnson, 1781, '84, '86. 

Abel Smith, 1781. 

John Steadman, 1782. 

Capt: Ezra Eames, 1782, '88, '89, '90, '92, 1802, '05, '12 

Samuel Park, Esq., 1782. 

Capt. James Perry, 1779, 1783, '86, '92, '94. 

Robt: Mellen, 1783, '87. 

Aaron Pond, 1783, '85. 

Thaddeus Lovering, 1784, '86, '91, '93. 

Samuel Bullard, Jun., 1784, '85. 

Capt. Tim. Rockwood, Jun., 1785, '88, '89, '90, '93, '95, '96, '97, 
'98, '99, 1800, '04, '10, '11. 

Dea. Esek Marsh, 1787. 

Nathan Bullard, 1787, '94. 

Andrew Watkins, 1787. 

Ephm. Littlefield, Esq. 1788, '89, '90, '96, '97, '98, '99, 1800, '03, 
'05, '06. 

Capt. James Mellen, Esq., 1788, '89, '90, 1807, '08. 

Joshua Underwood, 1789. 

David Whiting, 1790, '92, '93, '94, '96. 



HISTORY OF IIOLLISTON. 335 

John Haven, 1794. 

Henry Bui lard, 1791. 

Lieut. Aaron Eames, 1791, '97, 1800, '07, '08, '15, '16. 

Capt. Jason Chamberlin, Esq., 1792, '93, 1802, '04, '09. 

Lieut. Jona. Adams, 1792. 

Ezra Brown, 1797* '99, 1801, '03, '08, '10, '11, '12, '13. 

Japhet Daniels, — . 

Israel Smith, 1798, 1800, '01. 

Asa Fisk, 1798. 

Nath'l. Johnson, 1798, 1805, '06, '12, '13, '17, '18, '19, '24 '25 

Aaron Phipps, 2d, 1799, 1800, '01, '02, '04. 

John Fairbanks, 1802, '06! 

Aaron Pond, Jun., 1804, '10. 

Col. John Mellen, 1802, '03, '10, '13, '14, '15, '20. 

Daniel Ileminway, 1802. 

Lewis Fisher, 1803, '07, '14, '27, '28. 

James Wight, 1804. 

Eleazer Bullard, 1805. 

Asa Lincoln, 1806, '07, '08. 

Elijah Watkins, 1806, '07, '11, '13, '14. 

Capt. Obed Miller, 1808, '09, '16. 

Aseph Leland, Jun., 1809, '10, '11. 

Timothy Hill, Jun., 1809, '12. 

Isaac Cozzens, 1809, '14. 

John Daniels, Jun., 1812, '16. 

James Curtis, 1812. 

Nathan Bridges, 1815, '17, '22, '23, '25 '27 '28 

Nathan Leland, 1814, '15, '16, '24. 

Elihu Cutler, Esq., 1815, '17, '18, '19, '20, >26, '27, '28 

John Haven, 1816. 

Stephen Adams, 1817, '21. 

Abner Johnson, 1818, '19, '23, '29, '30, '31, '32,34, '35. 

Timothy Rockwood, 3d, 1818, '23, '29, '31, '32 

Levi Adams, Esq., 1818, '19, '20, '22, '23, '24, '25, '26. 

Asa Fisk, 2d, 1818, '19. ' ' 

Aaron Eames, 2d, 1820, '21. 

Col. William Rockwood, 1820, '21, '22, '26, '29, '30, '36, '37. 

Dr. Timothy Fisk, 1821. 

Capt. Tim. Mellen, 1821, '25. 

Col. Asa Whiting, 1822. 

William Phipps, 1822. 

Capt. Luther Rockwood, 1823. 

William Claflin, 1824, '25. 

John Death, 1824, '26. 

James Adams, 1826, '27. 

Col. Ichabod Hawes, 1827, '28, ''29 '30 

Lemuel Adams, 1828, '29. 

Martin Cutler, 1830. 



336 HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 

Capt. Sam. Bullard, 3d. 

Elial Littlefield, 1831, '32, '33. 

Wm. S. Batchelder, 1832, '33, '39, '40, '53. 

Ebenr. H. Currier, 1832, '38. 

Elias Bullard, 1833. 

Calvin Rockwood, 1833, '38. '39. 

Elijah B. Craig, 1847. 

Lauren Leland, 1848, '49. 

Abner Fisk, 1848. 

Benjamin W. Colburn, 1849. 

Abel Pond, 1850. 

William H. Blodgett, 1851. 

Cyrus Houghton, 1852. 

Appleton Bullard, 1852. 

Orrin Thomson, 1852. 

Sydny Wilder, 1853, '54. 

Warren L. Payson, 1853. 

Gaius Thompson, 1854. 

George Batchelder, 1855. 

William Jones, 1855. 

DEACONS. 

* Timothy Lealand, 1728—1748. 

* Thomas Marshall, 1728—1766. 

* James Russell, 1748—1777. 
** Aaron Phipps, 1766—1792. 

* Joseph Brown, 1777 ?— 1789 ? 

* Jesse Haven, 1789—1816 ? 

* Esek Marsh, 1793— ab. 1847 ? 

* Asaph Leland, 1816—1827. 

* Jesse Haven, 2d, 1827 ? 

* Timothy Rockwood. 
* Partridge. 



Timothy Daniels. 



POPULATION. 



In 1724, Holliston contained about 100 souls. 

In 1748, there were " about 90 families. " 

In 1753, there were " about 400 [pr. 500] inhabitants. 

In 1765, there were 705 ditto. 

In 1790, there were 875 ditto. 

In 1800, there were 783 ditto. 

In 1810, there were 989 ditto. 

In 1820, there were 1,042 ditto. 

In 1830, there were 1,304 ditto. 

In 1840, there were 1,782 ditto. 

In 1850, there were 2,428 ditto. 

In 1856, there are probably 3,100. 



HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 337 



GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY AND SOIL. 

Of these, little beyond a bird's-eye view has been taken. The geo- 
logical formation in general is primitive, and mostly covered at very une- 
qual depths with a coarse drift of similar mineral character. In this oc- 
cur huge boulders of sienite, valuable to be quarried, whose parent bed is 
to be explored at the North. Overlapping this in small depressed areas 
are deposits of the same mineral composition, reduced to a good degree 
of comminution, whose origin was probably alluvial. These are some 
times deep enough for the subsoil plough, and well adapted to tillage. 
Upon Phipp's Hill, and in the S. W. part of the town, occurs the pecu- 
liar loam that results from the disintegration of mica slate, and proba- 
bly also in other places. A quarry of soapstone was opened many 
years ago, immediately E. of the site of the upper R. R. depot, but it 
proved too pyritiferous to be wrought, and is of no economical value ex- 
cept as a dressing for orchards. No mine, except one plough-share deep, 
has as yet been much explored, but there is another immediately beneath 
this to be reached by the subsoil plough. Rocks in place upon the high- 
est land are embossed as if by the action of a former sea and rasped by 
icebergs with stone teeth, many of which were knocked out and dropped 
upon the ledges against which they struck. Several of these, if not 
quarried, appear upon the hill 1-2 mile S. of the R. R. deep cut : but 
when thus dislodged they were commonly carried by the force of the 
sea over the hills and rolled down their S. declivities. A remarkable 
instance of this occurs on the S. side of the hill, N. of Mrs. Abigail Cut- 
ler's. Other signs of the presence of icebergs during the glacial period 
appear in the formation of the basins of the Cedar swamp and Winne- 
kening Lake. The beautiful islands embosomed by the latter, and still 
belonging to the proprietors of Medfleld and Sherborn, might have ori- 
ginated in loads of gravel, brought hither in an iceberg that was stranded, 
or have been washed into fissures in the same ; and the hill on the N. side" 
of the Lake may be composed of no other materials than such as currents 
from the N. would have piled up against it ; while the hills on the S. 
side are of such form and composition, as eddies in the sea would have 
deposited on the leeside of an obstruction, whose form like that of an ice- 
berg frequently varied. 

STREAMS. 

Bogistow Brook rises in Medway, flows through Winnekening Lake 
and the central and S. E. parts of II. receiving Jar and Dopping 
Brooks from the N. and affording two mill-sites of inconstant power. 
Deer Brook, one of the head branches of Charles River, forms part of 
the W. boundary of H. Iloppin River and Chicken Brook cross the 
W. parts of the town, supplying power available for mills during part 
of the year. Were the crowns of the intervening hills plumed with 
towering evergreens, more vapor would be condensed, and the size of 
10 



■<■)■ HISTORY OF HOLLI6ION. 

these streams augmented : and if the farms located within their basins 
were sub-trenched, and all the surplus water by a system of sewerage de- 
livered af their banks, they would be less variable than at present, and 
perfectly constant in midsummer. The land, moreover, thus treated, 
would absorb most of the rain which now escapes upon the surface,' ex- 
tract therefrom all its ammonia, converting it into spring water, and be 
further enriched by a deeper chemical action of the atmosphere upon 
its mineral constituents. The trenches, kept open at their extremities, 
would condense vapor charged with another supply of ammonia out of 
the subterranean air, sure of motion while the breeze above is lulled, and 
full of water in the driest time as a cellar wall or ice-charged pitcher 
report. This, by capillary attraction, would spread and ascend to the 
drying surface, vegetable life and growth be sustained in droughts, crops 
be rendered certain and far more abundant ; and the country in midsum- 
mer would be robed in living green, and the terraced acclivities of sterile 
Jasper's Hill might become like the hanging gardens of Babylon. 

LAKES AND SCENERY. 

WinnekeningLake, [seep. 324] alias "Winthrop's Pond," half a mile S. 
E. of the Common, is a beautiful sheet of water, of rather triangular form, 
being from N. to S. about lm. in length, and fromE. to W.upon the S. shore 
if m., and upon the N. do. %m. in width. It once extended from Med- 
way line to the foot of the hill N. E. of the Common, where its outlet ex- 
cavated a channel and drained it to its present dimensions, redeeming 
the site of a part of the village. Its ancient banks are still visible, 
and their base is on a water level.- Upon the S. side it is indented 
with several points, consisting of so many shovel loads of drift thrown 
down by nature, as if to serve for wharves to the Indian town of Mucks- 
quit. It embraces, in the broadest part, 3 islands, varying in size from 
£ to f of an acre. These were formerly covered with wood, which no 
wood'thief dared'molest ; and no lover of the beautiful could do so. On 
the N. side stood a long row of ornamental trees, planted by Dea. E. 
Marsh, who ought to be remembered for his intended gift to posterity, 
and the barbarian forgotten who cut them down. On the E. is 
Mount Goulding, a rocky eminence, created, not to expose sterility, but 
to grow wood, reflect heat, and produce showers. This, until recently, 
was covered with a tall forest, and looked like a mountain : so that the 
Lake, viewed from the S. W., was truly winne ; and whenever these 
groves shall be restored, it will not fail to attract the pencil of the artist. 
It receives two inlets from the S., one of which, at little expense, might 
be materially increased by the drainage of a marsh in Medway, whose 
waters are now mostly evaporated. It formerly abounded with perch, 
pout, and pickerel, and was the meat tub of many poor families, supply- 
ing probably as much food as an equal area of pasturage and meadow. 
The economical regulation of its fishery seems worthy of legislative 
action ; and the rebeautifying of its shores and islands, as an enterprise 
of benevolence and laudable distinction, solicits the attention of gen tlewen 



HISTORY OF HOLLISTON. 339 

of wealth and taste. For if the desolations complained of were repaired, 
some small marshes diked and lifted,* and either cultivated or stocked 
with dark cedar groves, it would vie in beauty and attractiveness with 
any other lake in Massachusetts, and contribute to health and rational 
enjoyment. The trees would render the air damper and cooler, check 
evaporation, and secure an increase of water for its outlet. H. has much 
pleasant scenery. Upon the hill S. W. of the upper or Mcdway depot, 
and upon Mt. Jasper, extensive views may be had of the beautiful val- 
ley of Chicken Brook, and of the neighboring villages and country. 

CnURCHES. 

Besides the enlarged Orthodox Church, built in 1823, and lately fur- 
nished with one of the finest organs in N. Eng., there are also Metho- 
dist and Universalist meeting-houses of neat appearance, in which reg- 
ular services are conducted by stationed and settled ministers. 

CEMETERIES. 

Of these there are several, all hitherto reverently protected ; and all, 
save one, of comparatively modern establishment. The central yard was 
laid out soon after the incorporation of the town, and contains the ashes 
of its founders, whose sacred memories it was designed in the conditions 
of the gift and acceptance to preserve ; and can we who owe them so 
vast a debt of gratitude endure to see their monuments removed and the 
hallowed place of their repose desecrated at the bid of a sickly taste or 
thirst for speculation ? Land set apart for a public burying place vir- 
tually becomes perpetually leased in lots of 6 ft. as fast as the dead are 
interred and monuments erected. 

See Rev. Stat, of Mass., Ch. 130, Sec. 20. " If any person shall wil- 
fully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, 
gravestone, or other structure or thing, placed or designed for a memo- 
rial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, or other thing, intended for 
the protection, or for the ornament, of any tomb, monument, gravestone, 
or other structure before mentioned, or of any enclosure for the burial of 
the dead, or shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, remove, cut, break, or injure 
any tree, shrub or plant, placed or being within any such enclosure, the 
person so offending shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred 
dollars, nor less than ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, 
not more than one year." 

Lots containing headstones in the original part of the central yard 
have been sold to individuals ; but could the town or any district Com- 
mittee give valid titles to such lots, and authorize the removal of monu- 
ments without a previous enactment of the legislature, had after the ac- 
tual or tacit consent of every individual interested, and this at the close 
of a process of years in duration ? But it is not ascertained that the 
town has acted in this matter, and it is confidently presumed that they 
will never compromise their honor in obliterating the graves of their 
fathers, or peril the interest of the town or posterity by a forfeiture of 
the ground. It is sacred : and if ever profaned, let it be by barba- 
rians of another race. 

* Rocks in abundance, hard by, and already dug, exist for the purpose. 



340 HISTORY uF HOLLISTON. 

BUSINESS. 

See p. G9. Since 1814 manufactures have been introduced and 
during the last 25 years have engaged a large proportion of the inhabi- 
tants. Combs are extensively manufactured by,Houghton and Daniels ■ 
cotton goods by Drury Fairbanks ; straw goods by Lewis Slocom, and 
by Richardson & Slocom ; copper pumps by Joslyn & Wilder ; but the 
principal manufactures are of shoes, and conducted most extensively by 
Wm. Benj. and John Batchelder, Daniels & Blood, Hawkes & Co., 
Perry & Travis, Alden Leland, Claflin, Bemis & Co. 

Nearly half of the population are more or less devoted to agricul- 
ture and the growth of fire-wood, fruits and garden vegetables. 

stores, &c. 
Of these, there are 9, viz. : — 
1st by Andrews, Thompson & Co. 
2d, by Pond & Thayer. 
3d, by J. S. & J. Gill. 
4th, by Hiram A. Morse & Son. 
5th, by William Jones. 
(1th, by Caleb Steavens. 
7th by Ambrose Sanger. 
8th by Stephen Metcalf. 
9th, [Book] by Lorenzo Parker. 

A Printing Office is here conducted by E. G. Plimpton. 
The Winthrop House, a spacious and commodious hotel, is kept by Mr. 
George H. Frances. 

physicians. 

Timothy Fisk, A. M. and M. D., Sewall G. Burnap, M. D., and 
Doct. Jewett, M. D., are the present practising physicians. 

LAWYERS. 

Elias Bullard, A. M., the only lawyer ever permanently settled in 
H., has continued here in the practice of his profession for above 30 
years, receiving from the town ample testimonials of their confidence 
and esteem. Litigation, for the present business and population is as 
uncommon as formerly. 

Addenda for 2d paragraph on p. 288. 

G. C. Rec, Mar. 17, 1681-3. In answer to a petition from the in- 
habitants of S., alleging that they had been deserted in the late war, 
to their great impoverishing, but had become resettled with about 30 
families, who through the favour of God had procured a minister and 
undertaken to build him a house and also a meeting-house, both at a cost 
of above .£200, the court allowed them their country rates for 2 ys. 
towards the expenses of the same. 

For p. 326, A. D. 1729. Much as H. needed more inhabitants, its 
selectmen, as well as those of S. 5 were accustomed to warn out of town 
any intruders who were corrupt or liable to become a town charge. 



247 



TWITCHELL. 



Tins name occurs rarely in the directories of London and Dublin; and is, 
doubtless, a corruption of Tucliel, an English name of local origin and high 

antiquity \t the introducti if the feudal »ystem by N illmm the Conqueror, 

„,,d the division of the kingdom among Ins followers, A. I>. 10&5, 96 district* 
W ere assigned to "Alvercd de Ispannia," one of which, in Devonshire, was 
called " Tuchel " * No local nam.- in England, thus early introduced, bos failed 
to fix itself u,m,u some family. Thai this manor was held by the descendants of 
lh ,s ennobled Spaniard until the introduction of lower or m names, am that one 
of his race thon received Ins name from it, is highly probable ; lor, in 1309, men. 
tion is made of William Tuchel. Later than this, I have not found the name 
thus spelled i.. English history. But, in books of here dry, occur fwo coats o< 
Brms -lboth very simple, and, therefore, very ancient; the one, «7 sheldrakes 
or " and the other with "the field replenished with marlets or., by the name 
of'Tuchct both Gu. Neither of these arc the arms ol the present Karl ot 
nven alias Lord Audlcy, whose family, lor four hundred years, have 
I their names Touchet, having, probably, altered the orthography to get rtd< 
Saxon name,and publish a Norman French origin.t Ihomas [Whet was 
of Whitley in the reign of Henry VII. John roucliet, as Lord Audley, received, 
in 1461 of Edward IV., the manor of Shcre,Vachery and Cranley, in Surry, and 
1 191 ■ but he was nol the first who bore tins title and had a manor. From 
1105 to 1631, the family of Touchet held the baronage of Audley, which became 
led The title, however, has continued, or been recorered ; for, in 1838, 
it belonged to Thickness Touchet, to winch Hon. George E. Thickness Touchet 
was heir apparent, and, possibly, possessed of such family history as might 
connect the New England Twitchella with them and Alvared,the founder of the 
nee The manor Tuchel is supposed to be now called Twitchin, a parish of 
Devon The ancestor of the New England Twitchella was, no doubt, from that 
Dart of the kingdom where ancient Tuchel was situated. His name was first 
registered Twitchel, and his son's "Tuchel;" but afterwards, with Blight ran* 
tions, both modes of spelling their names were practiced .ndiscrmmiately-and, 
even at this day, in Dublin, the names of Twitchcll and " Iouchel, the name 
of a Huguenot, arc, bv the common people, invariably pronounced alike— 
Twitchcll,— which indicates their original identity with Touchet' and Twitchet'. 

Joseph Twitchel, or Tuchel, the common ancestor of the race in this 
country, was probably from Dorsetshire, adjacent to Devonshire, as 
early as 1633, and perhaps 1030. He settled at Dorchester; and. 
being recognized as a member of some chh., was admitted to the free- 
man's oath May 1 1, 1634, and had land assigned him Feb. 18, 1635-G 
On 8 (1; lb 11, he or his son Joseph was admitted to the chh. of D. 

1. i. Joseph,' who died at Dorchester 13 (7) 1657, pr. urn. 

2. II. Bern.,' who removed from 1). ab. 1GG3 to Dogistow, having, it 

is presumed, bought 100 acres of Kaine's grant, and built bis 
house ab. 80 rods S. W. of Death's Bridge., in Sherborn, where 



♦ "Alveredde Ispannia In I. mans, que voealnr Alferdiniona huic c I man*, que xorainr Tmh.l.' 
id in another place ii is called "Tuichel," aad ... another, - terra Alvcrcdi Ispaniewia in Deven- 




M 
h 
not been upon tl.c throne. 



HOI IM-VIl II M»II IIM- III1VUII . , . c ... 

t \s surnames were nol iniroduce<l unlil lone after the conqoeal, ihe occurrenee ol rouebet 
Chronicles ol Normandy, and on ibce/«n«Vw« Uallle Al.bey Roll, have lilUsei He weight again*! the pro',.- 
biliiy al.ovc si emed. Lord Audley derives hw »umanic from <)r..n.s lornhei. a personage ol a later 



a ff e 



, ;.e. 3S( CLj 

248 TWITCHELL. 

the cellar-hole is yel to be seen. 1 1 < - soon after re'moved, and 
was dismissed from the chh. in Dorch. to the chh. in Lancaster. 
Here he is supposed either to have died, or, in 107 .">-<>, to have 
been killed by Indians, and his house burnt. Immediately 
afterwards, Ins family reappeared at Shcrborn, and s. in the 
vicinity of Ins former home. Joseph t"<>k possession of the 
100 acres, w Inch was afterwards sold to Samuel Morse, of Med- 
field. Benj. 1 had by wf. Marv — 

B, :; Joseph, 8 who in. Lvdia [pr. IV. Lancaster?] and d. Oct. '24, 

1710. 
n. Marv,- I., s 1) 1658-9, at D., m. May 9, '77, Joseph Rocket, 

and d. '99. 
in. Hannah, 9 who m. Nov. 1. 1679, Samuel Hill, of S. 
(i:{. 4. iv. Beni., a m. April 5, 1683, .Marv White, of Medfield, and d. about 
17-jj'»-:h). 
v. Bethia," whom.Jly I'd, 1688, John R cket,and d. Jan. 1,1706-7. 
.">. vi. Abiell,' I). Nov. 1663, at Bogistow, tin' presumed father of 
251. »>. 1. Benoni, 3 b. ab. 1684, supposed to have early been left an 

orphan, and adopted by Josiah Rocket, of M., with whom and 
his cousin, Joseph R., ho became a proprietor of Oxford, and, 
at the age of ah. 60, attended the expedition to Louisburg, pr. 
as commissary to the army ; in. Hannah Allen, April IN, 170.">, 
and had, besides 1 children that d. young — 
254. ~. 1. Seth, Nov. 0, 1711, who m. Dorothy Bishop, Jan. 7, '.'*."»-(;, 

at Wrentham. 



'.I. 8. Joseph, 1 as the owner of 100 acres of the first grants in S.. united, 
with others, to extinguish the Indian claim, Juno 12, 1682, and was 
rated, 1 * » — > * > , to extinguish the Indian claim to the rest of the hinds in 
S. As early as l(i><>, he rented ami mowed the Pond meadows in 

Hoi. lie in. Lydia , who d. 1715—30, s. at \V. Sherborn, and 

built his house a few roils N. VV. of Royal Stone's, where home lots 

had been assigned him and his br. Benj. He had, 

i. Patience, Doe. 2, 1678, m. Samuel Eamcs, April 21, 1698; 

n. Content, Jan. 25, '80 ; in. Charity, D« c 7, '82 ; IV. Sarah, No\ 

15, '84 ; v. Lydia, Oct. 11, "Mi, d. 1810 ; 

11. !>. vi. Joseph, Sept. 3, '88, d. Jan. 31, 1728, m. Elizabeth Holbrook ; 

11. 10. vii. Ephraim, Oct. 24, '95, m. Sarah Millen. 



!>. 11. Joseph, 3 by wf. Elizabeth Holbrook, Pt. n. Ch. i. Xo. 19£,) had at s - 
L8. 12. i. Joseph, Esq., Feb. 13, 1718-19, m. Deborah Fairbanks ; 
27. 13. ii. Jona., Dea., July 22, '21, d. prior to 1781. 



10. 11. Ephraim, 3 bought March 19, 17 19-J0, for £45, of Daniel Morse :."> 
acres, drawn in the right of his f., Daniel M., sen., hounded \V. hy 
Hoppin's farm, N. by a highway, (Milford road,) E. by Med. former) 
line, S. by Lodwick Dowse, which, with additions, his s., Tun., sold 
Feb., 1796, for $3,000, to Maj. Jacob ami Obed Miller, lie m. Sarah 
Milieu, who d. Aug. 28, 1725, and, 2d, Hannah Sanger, Feb. 9, '26-7, 
d'_ r . of Richard S., by wf. Elizabeth Morse; had at Hoi. 

50. 15. i. Tho.,Sep.29, 1722, d. Feb.25, lMO.at Wboro, m. Susanna ; 

Id. ii. Ephraim, Oct. 25, '23, m. Patience Eamcs 1752,he then of Men- 
don ; in. James, Aug. 7, '•~ , ~>, d. May 5, '52 : iv. Hannah. June 7, 
'•j:>, m. Tun. Lcland ; v. Sarah, Sept. 1, '.'51, d. Nov. 9, '34 ; VI. 
Lydia, Dec. 6, '33 ; 



TWITCH ELL. 249 

52. 17. vii. Timothy, June 11, '88 ; vm. Elisabeth, Nov. 20, \'tN. 



12. IN. Joseph, 4 Esq, Tradition has brought down a high character of this 
man, and the records confirm it. He nraa Capt. of the militia, com- 
a> missary for the army in the war of *76, town clerk, representative and 
magistrate, and the leading man of the town, until succeeded by Ins 
junior half-brother, the Hon. Daniel Whitney. By appointment from 
the G. C. he acted for years as an associate guurdian of the Nalick 
Indians. !!<■ m. Deborah Fairbanks, June 28, l?:i!», dg. of Cap*. 
Eleazcr F„ of S., and was, with her, received into the chh. July 27. 
17 in He in. 2.1, Deborah (Sangor) Fasset, Jan. 1, 1786, and d 
with the apoplexy, March 12, '92. 1 1 < - had 
i. Samuel, Capt., Aug. 24, 1740, m. Alice Wilson; 
ii. Joseph, jun., Nov. 27, '11, m. Marry Hoi brook : 
in. Elizabeth, July 27, ' 13, m. Joel White, Maj :m>. '<i7. r. Dublin, 
iv. Eleazar, Jan. 22, '44-5, m. Martha Mason, April I, '68; 
V. Ezra, June 2.'5, ' 1<>. m. Susanna Rice ; 
vi. Martha, Dec. 1U, '17, in. Nathan Bixhv, of From., Oct. 3, *71 ; 
vm. Deborah, March 26,'49, d. May 13, '52 ; 
•11. -j:{. vm. Abel, May 28, '51, m. Sarah Adams; tx. Deborah, Dec. 23, 

'52, m. Joseph Maynard, of F., May ">, "75 : 
\. Molly, May 17, '55, m. Moses Rider, of Jeffery, N. H., Jan. 18, 

'84, and had Ezra, Aug. 30, '86, of Kecne; 
xi. Amos, Dec. 28, '.">(), who d. in the armv ; 
xn. Eli, Feb. 17, '59, m. Rhoda Leland, Sept. 23, '84 ; 
xiii. Peter, June 13, "•>•) or '61, m. Sarah Bui lard ; 
xiv. Jule, Mar. 18, '•><>, m. William Tucker, of Fram. 



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25. 


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26. 


230. 


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13. 27. Jona., Dea., m. Debomh Bullard, March 1, 1743-4, dg. of Benj. B., 

of S., by wf. Miriam Morse. She was killed by a fall from a horsi . 
July 23, '81. lie was a member of the chh., had, i. Miriam, Dec. 
17.'' 1 1. in. ( lapt. Isaac Bullard, of Hoi, April ">, '87 ; n. Jona., April 
7, '47, d. Vug. 7, '49; in. Kezia, April 13, '49, m. Benj. Kendall, of 
Sh., April I, '67; iv. Anne, May24,'51, m.Jabez Partridge, of S., 
M i\ 19, '72, and had Henry, of Medfield ; 
v. Jona., April (I, '54, d. yg. ; vi. Peter, Aug. 11, '57, d. yg. ; 
vn. Jcnnctt, Nov. 5, 'do, m. Silas Stone, Jan. i>, '81, s. on homestead, 
vin. Deborah, Dec. 15, '64, d. yg. ; ix. Jona.. Sept. 2. 'ti7. d. yg. 

1!». 28. Samuel, 5 united with the chh. in S., Mar. IS, 17*. I. m. Alice Wil 

I b. 2, 17(iti, dg. of Dr. John and Mary W., of S. ; 2d, Elizabeth 

Young, Nov. 2, 1807, and was among the firsl planters of Dublin, 

and resided on the place now occupied by I larvey Learned. He had, 

I. Hannah, July 7, "<i7 : 
29. ii. Ephraim, A.ug. 7. '68; in. Mary, Jan. 2:?, '71, m. Samuel Fisl . 

of I).; tv. Betty, April 18, '73; v. Samuel, June 13, '75, d. Sept. 1, 

'77 : vi. Samuel, Nov. 13, "77, d. April H, '84 ; 
.'10. vn. Amos, M. I)., April 11, '81, d. May 26, 1850, m Betsey Good- 

hue, r. Kerne, was q |>li\ siei.ui ami surgeon of great eminence, - e 

Bowditch's life of him] ; 

vm. Timothy, Jan. 's;{. ,-. Mobile, Ala. ; 

ix. Samuel, Feb. 2<>, '85, s. on the homestead at D. 



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31 


•jo. 


33 



Joseph, in. Marry Holbrook, Nov. 13, '66, dg. of Nath'l II., of S., 
bywf. Sarah Sanger, settled very early at Dublin, and had, i. Joseph, 



l'^m 3 



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249$ 



'I w ITCHELL. 



119. 31. 

■:■:. 35, 

30. 

226. 37. 

292. 38. 

.':.:. 31). 

2 10. 1(1. 

23. 1 1 . 

286. 13. 

287. n. 
•jo:'. 15. 

291. 16. 

26. 18. 



Nov. 21, 1767, d.yg.; . \ iv. 24, '67, I. vg. ; m. Jona., 

2' . *ii!». |>r. «l. j g. : iv. Murcj . June 1, '72, il. j ■_•. ; \ . Joseph, 
V .. 12, '7 I, d. yg. : \ i. Moses, Jan. 6, '" ; 

vii. Mnrcy, Feb. I, '79, m. John Snow ; vm. Joseph, June 21, '81, 
in. Sally Taggart; ix. Persis, May 1. '84, m. Daniel Twitcholl ; 
\. Reuben, May 1",, '86, in. Sally Wilder. 

Ezra, m. Susanna Rice, fr. Pram., r. Dublin, Nelson, Bethel, 

i. Susanna, Nov. 9, '68, d. '76 ; n. Hannah, Nov. 9, '68 ; u \ 

Dec. 15, '70; iv. Calvin, June 1,*7.>': v. Susanna, Nov. 27, '77 ; 

vi. Calvin, Nov. 2, '79 ; 

vn. Ezra, Nov. 24, '81 or '63, in. Betsey Collin ; 

vm. Eli, July 26, '85, m. Betsey Gould ; 

i i. Thaddeus, June <i. '88, m. Sukej Barker ; 

\. Nathan, I lea., m. I larriel El ill. 



Abi !. ii). Sarah Adams, -mad in Dublin, and had, 

i. Sally, April 9, 1775; n. Deborah, Aug. 14, '76 ; 

in. Cyrus, Mar. 13, '78, m. Eunice Belknap; iv. Polly, Feb. ;">, "s0 ; 

v. Peter, July 10, '81, m. Hannah Belknap, Dec. 22, 1803 ; 

vi. Abel, July 13, "*<{. ,1. July 15, 1834, in. Ala-ail Greenwood; 

vn. Bctsi \ . i >ct. 18, '8 1 : 

vm. Timothj Adams, May 29, '92. 



Peter, was for 15 years a vegetarian indict; was accustomed, at the 

age of 90 \ cars, !.. walk live mile-, to chh. and back on the Sabbath ; 
in. Sarah Bullard, d. Sept. -JO. "ill ; and, 2d, Amy Perry, Jan. 10, 
'93, dg. of Edward West Perry, of S., had 

;. Almond, who d. Nov. 18, '92; n. Eli, Feb. 8, '86, d. Sept. 26, '92 : 
in. Jona., May 20, '88 ; iv. Eli, July 22, '94; v. Julia, April 10, "97, 
see N'>. 21 1, p. 'A IT. 



1"). :>(). Thos., in. Susannah, who .1. Dec. 12, 1809, had at IT., i. Sarah, Jan. 
'j:>. 17 is-!) ; ii. Joshua, Nov. 13, '50; in. Mary, May, 2, '."»1 ; 
iv. Thos., July 2, '57, at W'boro, f. of Nahum, of W., b. '86. 

Timothy, inherited the homi stead, m. Sarah Adams. Feb. 25, '62, had 
i. Joseph, Jan. !>,'(!.'{. rm. to Wardsbury, Vt. ; n. I lannali, July 4, '64; 
in. Sarah, Sept. 2, '66 : iv. Mary, Jan. -JO, '<i!> : 
v. Timothy,Oct. 1,'70; vi. Lun ,Dec. 13, '72; vn. Ruth, Oct. 9, '74; 
vm. Uriel, Feb. 2, '72, m. Ruth Wright. 



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122. 


53 


157. 


51 


158. 


59 


1. 


63 



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64 


73. 


65 


76, 


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64. 


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68 



Benj., drew a home lot of 11 acres, at YV. Shcrborn, 13 (3), 1(57!), 

s. immediately W. of his br. Joseph, and left all his real estate in S. 

t<> Ins s . Ebenezer ; had, by wf. Mary White, grd. dg. of Thos. YV., 

of ( 'harlcstow n, 

i. Benj., Sept. 15, 'si, d. 1722-30; 

ii. John, Jan. 1, '88 : 

in. Ebenezer, Dec. 10, '91, .1. June II, 177S ; [V . Mary, Aug. 28, 

'1)1, in. John Wallis; v. Abigail, Juno .">, '«.)!>, in. Nath'l Wallis. 

Benj., in. Mary , and had, i. Daniel, Nov. 11, 1711 ; 

a. Daniel, Feb. 22, '11-15; 



TWITCHELL. 250 

>0. G9. ni. Bcnj., Dec. 2, '16 ; [Abijah, '55; 

70. iv. Jonas, May 15, 'lit, m. Lydin , p. W'boro, had Samuel, '68, 

7-J. v. Abigail, March 24, »21-22. 

<;:>. i:\. John, m. Esther Sanger, Feb. 2, 1720-1, who d. nb. '-J* : and, 2d, 
Hannah Perry, March 10, 1728-8, d. of John P., jun., of S., by irf. 
Sarah Hill, and had al II. 

62. "3 I. i. David, Murch, I'll, m. Sarah Marsh, May 21/47; 

B4. 75. ii. Mosi , Mar. 18, *23-4, m. Mary Foster; m. Miriam, Feb. 27, *38. 

ijG. 7G. Ebenezer, m. Sarah Pratt, of S., Dec, 1717, who was received to 

the chh., April 7, '54, r. S., had 
BS. 77. i. Ebenezer, Dec. 20, '18, d. A.ug. is. 1800, m. Mercy Sawin; 

78. ii. Sarah, June 12, '20, m. Seth Bullard ; 
99. 7'J. in. Gersham, Oct. 6, '25, in. Hannah Sawin, fr. Watertown. 

69. B0. Benj., m. LydiaFisk,Nov.25,'40,ai Med.,had t. Lydia, June7,'41 ; 
81. ii. Isaac, Feb. 9, '42-3 ; in. Lois, Dec. 20, '44. 

71. 82. David, m. Sarah Marsh, May 21, 1717, dg. pr. of Joseph M., of S., 
s:{. by wf. Sarah, had, i. Esther, Sept. 29, '48; n. Joseph, Sept. 10, '50. 

75. 84. Moses, m. Mary Foster, Nov. 24, 17 19, dg. of Jacob P., of Holl., and 
85. had at Holl., i. Rachel, Aug. 19, '50 ; u. Jacob, Feb. IN, '5G, at 
87. W'boro; in. Moses, Nov. 14, V> s ; iv. Jeremiah, Feb. 21, '61. 

77. 88. Ebenezer, m. Mercy Sawin, d. Jan. '-ii', 1771, r. S., .[ m. S. of the 

W., had, i. John; Aug. 2 I, 17 13, d. ( tet, 28, * l<; ; 
101. 89. ii. Ebenezer, Ens., Aug. 15, '45 ; m. John, April 7, '48 ; 
112. 91. iv. Abijah, Aug. .'{, '">0, d. July 11, '77, in the army ; 
103. 92. v. Joshua, Mar. (, '53, r. Fitzwm., Dub., Andovcr, Vt. ; vi. Mercy, 
!»:{. Mar. 1, '55, m. Mosea Leland, of S., May 26, '74 ; vn. Elizabeth, 
94. I»i». Mar. *JG, '58, m. John Goulding; vim. (Join fort, bp. June 8, 'GO; 
96. 95. ix. John, l>|>. Jan. 30, *(!:{, m. Catharine Tucker, June 1, 'bG ; 
x. Julia, bp. Mar. "J."), '<>."> ; 
II. Sawin, l))>. Oct. 7, "<»!>, r. Fitzwm., ami nil. Andover, Vt. 

!•."). 96. John, m. Catharine Tucker, June 1, '86, inherited his father's farm 

in S., had, i. Abigail, Oct. 1, 17<s7, d. num.; 

l'^O. 97. ii. John, Mar. 6, 1789, m. Lucy Mctcalf, dg. of Philip M., d. where 

his son, Ben. Twitchell, r. in S. ; in. Clary, Oct. ">, '92, m. Daniel 

lis. Mctcalf, r. Mod.; iv. Calvin, b. Feb. -•">, '99, m. Mary Greenwood, 

r. Fram. ; v. Polly, bp. Juno 5, 1803, d. yg. ; vi. Chas., Oct. 20, '05, 

•,J7G. 9N.\. vn. Chas., 2d, m. Joanna Cuzzens, r. Ashland ; 

viii. Mary Ann, bap. April .'$, '09, in. Gardner Edmunds, r. Boston, 

79. 99. Gersham, red. to the chh. in S., 17 is, m . Hanh. , rm. to Dub. ; 

10."). 100. i. Gersham, Sept. l:J, " In ; n. Sarah, Nov. 12, '50; 
111. lOO^. 111. Stephen, June 25, '.">:} ; iv. Hannah, Dec. 20, '55; v. Isaac, 
Mar. 'J!>, '58 ; n. Isaac, 2d, Sept 27, 'G7 ; vn. Sawin, Oct. G, 'G9. 

89. 101. Ebenezer, Ens , m. Waiistill Greenwood, June 4, 17G7, d^ r . of Wm. 
C., of S., who d. June 11, '88, s. in Dub , had, 1. Sarah, Jan. 9, '68; 
111. 102. 11. John, Juno 2, "70, in. Dorcas Twitchell ; 111. Mary, Jan. M, '71 ; 
#• iv. Eli, Oct. 29, "72, r. Unity, N. II. or Vt. ; 



251 TWITCHELL. 

117. 102$. v. Daniel, April 3, '75 ; vi. Lydia, April 2, '81 ; vn. Miriam, April 
7, "s:i ; vim. Waitstill, Jan.21,'86, m. Aaron Brooks, Mar. 13, ]*<>»; ; 
ix. Julia, .May 28, '8N. 

92. 103. Joshua, m. Sarah Cousens, Jan. 1, 177s, had at Dublin, 

i. Abijah, April 10, '78, m. Rachel Hogg, Dec. I, L800, r. Maine; 
ii. Sally, March 21, 'SO, m. Benj. Wilder, r. Plymouth, Vt. ; 
in. Joshua, Aug. 26, '82, r. Jackson, Mo., in. Julia Cozzeus; 
iv. Ebenczcr, July 7, '84, m. Polly Cozzcns, r. J,; 
US. 101. v. Joseph, Si pt. K», '86, m. Hannah Greenwood, r. Dublin; 

vi. Timothy, Mar. 23, '89, in. Sally Bullard, and s. in Shcrborn : 
vn. Patty, March 28, '91, d.uin. ; vm. Betsey, June 12, '93, r. Dub., 
urn.; ix. Asa; x. Hannah, in. Crombe Chadwick ; xi. Moses, r. urn., 
Dublin; xn. Aaron, r. Harbour Or., Pa. 

100. 105. Gersham, m. Prudence Adams, Sept. 12, 1771: 2d, Priscilla Holt, 
Oct. 2, '79, settled at Dublin, ami had, i. Luther, Sept. is, '73 ; 
ii. Hannah, May 20, '75 ; in. Prudence, April 19, '77 5 iv. Josiah, 
Mar. 14, "71); v. Daniel, Feb. 21, '81 ; vi. Prudence, June 10, '88, 
in. John Minot,Sept. 15,'05; vn. Polly, April 22,'85; vm. Dorcas, 
. June 1, '87 ; ix. Gersham, April 10, '89 ; x. John, April -JO, *9v>. 

100). HI. Stephen, m. Lucy Norcross, May 22, 1779, r. D., had, 1. Elizabeth, 
Dec. 7. '80; 11. Sarah, July 8, '81 : in. Julah, Oct. G, '82; 
IV. Hannah, Oct. 13, '94. 



91. 112. Abijah, m. Lydia A. lams, Feb. 27, '72, d. Mar. 10, '76, r. D., had, 
115. 113. i. Thaddcus, Jan. 23, '73, reared by his grd. father, T. ; n. Dorcas, 
Oct. .">, "7 !, in. John Twitchell ; in. Lydia, Mar. 2, '7G, d. yg. 

102. 11 1. John, m. Dorcas Twitchell, bad at D., i. John, Aug. 20, '98, d. Oct. 
11, '98; n. Oilman, July 28, 1800, d. Oct. 1!>, 1800; in. Matilda 
O.. July MS, '01 ; iv. Silvia, March 23, '03; v. Lcandcr, Nov. 16, 
"01, d. Oct. M0, '05; vi. Emily, Feb. Ii), '06, d. Oct. 31, '07. 

113. 115. Thaddcus, m. Nancy Fairbank, of Mend., Nov. 25, 17!'."). r. Dublin, 
i. Abijah, Feb. 3, '97; n. Han'h, Ap'l 5, '99 ; in. Mary, July 6, 1801 ; 
iv. Nancy, Aug. 20, '03 ; v. Mira, July 31, '06 ; vi. Lucy,Sep. 1,'08. 

102J. 117. Daniel, m. Pcrsis, r. D., had, i. Adalinc, May 30, 1^07 ; n. Almira, 
July 15, "OS; in. Darius, June 25, M0; iv. Persis A.. June 25, Ml: 

V. Joseph, d. Oct. 5, '16. 

101. 118. roseph, m. Hannah Greenwood, Dec. 29, 1814, r. D., had, i. Rufus, 
Oct. 9, '15, d. yg. ; n. Horace, Nov. Ml,M(i, r. Med.; in. Julia 
Ann, Feb. 9, '19, d. yg., and others. 

31. 11!>. Reuben, m. Sally, had, i. Orlando, Feb. 6, 1808 ; n. Reuben W., 
Sept. 17, M0. 

97. 1-20. John, wf. Lucy Metcalf, had, i. Benj., Jan. 23, 1817, m. Mary Chap- 
man, has Harriet N. ; ii. Abigail, m. Sylvester Eames, r. 11.; 
in. Lucy E., in. Luther E. Lcland, r. Ashd.; iv. ('has., m. Catherine 

Hearth, r. Fram. : v. Susan, m. John Allen, r. I loll. 

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Continued from page 261. 
52. 121. Timothy Twitehell, sonr., s. of Ephm. s and grd. s. of Joseph,* and 
as I now believe gr. grd. s. of Joseph, 1 sen. of Dorchester, d 
at Barre "a<:d ab. 1(1" ys. His wf , Sarah Adam*, d. of a cancer." 
58. 122. Joseph Twitehell* d. it Wardsbury, Vt, Apl. 5, 1885, a. 72. He 
m. Lucy Rice, 1). May, 13, 17»iA. dg. of Jotham B.,of Darre, and 
d. Apl. 20, 1849, at Jamaica, Vt. They had 

i Malinda 6 Dec. 2 1798, d. June 1C, '95. II. A son, Apl. 5, 
(1. Apl. 15, 1795. 
128. in. Hollis 1 Mar. 28, 1795, rs. at Jamaica, Vt., m. Charlotte Rugg, 

and had 1, Harriet, 7 d. um. ; 2, Lorenzo/ 3 Strah, 7 m. 

Luinprey. of Boa., and d. without issue; 4, Adam's ■/ 5, 
.Maliinla ;'" 6, Nathaniel Franklin 7 , and 7, Eliza Frances 7 , 
twins ; 8, Lucy. 7 
130. it. Appleton* Dee. 10, 1 Ti>< », rs. at Jamaica, m. Ducretia Kugg. 
and had 1, Hannah, 7 m. Anson Bice, r. Darre; 2. Nancy, 7 
tn. Stone, r. B. j 3, Edith f 4, Olive Ann/ 5, Mari- 
on, 7 in. Bailey, r Hinsdale, N H. 

134. v. Joseph,' Sept. Di, 17'.)* rs. in Boston, in. Pbebe Gray, b. at 

Tiverton, R. I., a!.. 1802, d. 1H37 ; and 2d, Betsey Moore, 
Feb. 22, is:}'!, dg. of lVter M., of Stratham, N. H. ; and 
had 1, Lucy Ann, 7 Jly. 17, 1831 ; 2, Philip Henry, 7 Dec. 
18, 1833, d. a. ab. 7 yrs. ; 3, Joseph Augustus, 7 Mar. 3, 
1*:S5, d.yg. ; 4, Sarah Frances, 7 May 23, 1839, by 2d 
wife; 5, Joseph Henry, 7 Jly. 7, 1840 ; 0, Mary Jane, 7 Feb. 
(i, 1842, d. Sep. 15, '42 ; 7,' Charles Augustus, 7 July 4, 
1*4:; ; 8, Mary Jane, 7 Jly. 2, 1845; 9, Addaliza, 7 Nov. 25. 
1847, d. Dec. 28, , 51 ; 1«>, Albert Munroe, 7 Jly 21, 1852. 
138. vi. MicbV May 27, 1800, d. Jan. 1, 1*5.'}, r. Jamaica, m. 

Sophronia My rick, and 2d, Tony, and had 1, Elon, 7 

m. Doct. Win. Maynard ; 2, Hannah, 7 m. Stodard ; 

3, Joseph ;" 4, George;' 5, Philena ; 7 (», Eunice, 7 by 2d 
wife. 

141. vn. Lucy, ,J Feb. 22, 1802, m. Dwight Pendleton, and 2d, John B. 
Gates, rs. at Bennington, Vt., had 1, Clarissa 1). Pendle- 
ton, 7 m. Morse, and d. in Bos., no ehd. ; 2, Polly 

Gates, 7 m. Stephen Thies, fr. Germany ; 3, I) wight Gates, 7 

4, John Gates j 7 5, Oscar Gates; 7 6, Lewis Gates; 7 7, 
Henry Paul Gates. 7 

147. vm. Adams, u b. Dec. 22, 1803, rs. at Boston, m. Lucia Allen, dg. 
of Sylvester A. (who d. agd. 92), by wf. Mary Col, from 
Sterling, Ct, (who also d. agd. 92,) and grd. dg. of George 
Allen, who emigrated from Eng. and s. in Bchoboth, and 
from wdiom distinguished families of the name in Providence 
have descended. They had 1, Emcline, 7 Oct. 9, 1883 ; 2, 
Edward, 7 Oct. 9, '33 ; 3, Wellcome Allen, 7 Oct. 30, 1835, 
d. Sep. 14, '40. 
ix. Hannah, Oct G. 1805, d. Jly. 25, 1827, um. 

150. x. Jotham, 6 b. Jly 30, 1807, rs. at Boston, m. Hannah Godfrey, 

from Hamjiton, N. H., and had 1, George W., 7 June 22, 
1*37 ; 2, Sarah T., 7 d. agd. 6 mo. 



: M4 rwH m.i.i . 

152. xi. David," b. Feb. 25, 1809, rs. at Jamaica, Vt., m. Louisa Wood. 

and had I, Joseph f 2, Melisna^ 3, Henry;' 4, Laura/ 
5, Florindn ; ; ('>. Louisa ; r 7. David Fremont.' 
160. xn. Timothy,* b.Sop. -J."., 1810, d. Oct. 17, 1845, r. Wardsbury, 
\'t , in. Eliza Ami Cuahing, dg. of Warren C, of Newfane, 
hud 1. Fiances; 1 2. Lucy Ami; 7 :t, Aliliy ; r 4, Sarah.' 
xni. Sarah, 8 b. Sep. 11, 1813. d. Oct. 14, '44, m. Ira Young, had 
no issue. On j». 249 No. 01 & 01^ erase v. Timothy 
ami vi Uriel. 
54. 157. Timothy T./jun., d. May 'J!'. 1843, at Lyden, Lewis Co., N. Y. 
He was married at Barre, Feb. 24, 1801, by Rev. W. Dana, to 
Hannah Farrar. b. Sept. 00, 177'J. at Concord, Alas?., d. Deo. 10, 
1851, at L. They had 

i. Almira,'' Apl. ."», 1802, at li., m. Christopher Irvin, at 
Demark, X. Y. Mir. 10, 1827, who rs. a farmer at Os- 
wego, N. Y., had M<»it«jomery Irvin, 7 Jan. 8, 1832. 
ii. Jerome, 6 Oct. 11, 1803, at B.,m.at I).. Dec. 11, 1834, Eliza 
Spalding, b. Apr. 15, 1810, at Dover, Dutchess Co., N. Y., 
rs. as a farmer at 1)., had 1, Albert S.J Aug. 18, 1835; 2, 
John IT., 7 Juno 30, 1838 ; 0, Emily J'J., 7 Oct. 25, 1843, d. 
May ii."., 1845; 4, Sarah Ji. 7 Sep. 19, 1S40, all at D. 
in. Isabella," Sep. 22. 1805, at B. m. Apl. 1:5, 18.",:!, at D.. Aaron 
W. Porter, a druggist, who d. Apl. 30, 1846, at Rutland, 
N. Y., where she rs. 
IV. Eliza Ann, Aug. 18, 1808, at B.,d. Aug. 29, 1851, m., at I). 
Solomon D. Fisher, farmer, who resides at Lyden, Lewis 
Co , N. Y.. had Willard Fisher,' Aug 10, 1840, at L. 
v. Sam icl 11.,*' Jan. 12, 1815, at Denmark, m. at Whitehall, N. 
Y.. Jan. 1»>, 1850, Phebc Judd, b. Nov. 17, 1823, at 
Warrensburgh, Warren Co., X. Y., and rs. as a dentist 
at Williamsburg, L. I.; had 1, Emma L., 7 Nov. 2, 1851, 
at W. ; 2, James 11. ■ Apl. 7, 1852, at W. 
vi. Willard," Oct. 6, 1817, at D ,m. at Syracuse, N.Y., Nov. 14, '48 
■Theda Rcdelia Fillmore, b. Aug. 0, 1826, at New York, 
rs. as a painter at S. had 1, 1)'///. //./ Dec 27, 1850, at S. 
vn. Sabrina, Dec. 17, 1820, at D. rs. Rutland, Jeff. Co., N. Y. , 

59. 158. Uriel Twitchell 4 d. Nov. 19, 1850, at Copenhagen, Denmark, Lewis 
Co.. N. \' , m. Ruth Wright, b. Apl. ."JO, 1781, m. Feb. 14, 
1804, had 

i. Charlotte M.,' ; b. Jly. 6, lsml, m . Jan. 25, '30, Richard Tay- 
lor, r Watertown, N. Y'., and had 1. Dunne J)., 7 Jan. 
23, 1837 ; 2, (ieonjc A.,' Nov. 10, 1838; '•'>, Emma Jan* 
A. 7 Oct. 20, lS4.->." 
n. Arattausa, b. Aug. 18, ISO'.), d. Jan. 20, 1845. 
159. in. Erastus F.,' b. June 14, 1811, rs. C, m. 1844. Jael Clark, 

1.. Oct. 17, 1812, and had 1, Chs. E., 7 Dec 29, 1845; 2, 
Levant D., 7 June 1."), 1847; 3, Dealton 7 Mar. 15, and d. 
Mar. 19, 1849; 4, Jul/, 7 Sept. 1 .">, 1850; 5. George A. 7 

Nov. 30, is:>:;. 

165. iv. Uriel A ," b. Sop 9, 1822, is. ('. m. Sep. 2:;, 1847, Catharine 

Spalding, b. June 17, 1827, had Arathusa //April 10, 

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21. 1GG. Elenzcr Twifchell, 6 one of tho original pr o pri etora and first settlers of 
Bethel, Me., removed thither in the winter from N. H., about 
1780, while the willernos around abounded with Indians, many 
of whom were hostile to the settlement of the whites and to the 
cause of the colonies then struggling for independence. This ren- 
dered the situation of Mr T. and company peculiarly dangerous and 
perplexing, and required of then great caution and forbearance. 
Several of the inhabitants were toon leiied by Indians, and carried to 
Canada and kept us prisoners until the close of the war Among the 
number was Mr.T., but through great presence of mind and determi- 
nation of will he foiled tho attempt of bis captors and made his es- 
cape. With this exception be ever lived at peace with his Indian 
neighbors, won their confidence, and by his energy and per- 
severance contributed much to tho settlement and prosperity of 
tho place. He m. Martha Mason, b. May 28th, 1751, dg. of Moses 
M. of Dub. by wf. Lydia Knap, d^. of Jesse K., of Boston, and 
found in her a companion every way qualified to counsel, aid, and 
encourage him in all the trying scenes through which they passed. 
Ucr generosity, kindness, and affability secured the esteem and 
friendship of her Indian neighbors, and contributed much to 
the good understanding between the infant settlement and those 
with whom they mingled. They had — 

107. I. Simeon, b. Feb. 11th, 1770, d. 1845, m. Hannah Abbot, fr. 

Andovcr, and had a large family, 
ir. Deborah/ Feb. 1, or 8, 1772, m. Isaac Adams and was drowned 
soon after. 

108. hi. Martha,* May 0, 1774, m, Ephm. ttowe, had 1. Lucina Rowe 7 ; 

2. Caleb Rowe, 7 b. Aug. 17, 1707, m. 1826, Abigail I'lummer, had, 

1. FraneinaM.'July 19,1828. 2. Harriet I., 8 Aug. 8, '30. 
3. Leander l'. s Dec. 25, '33 1. Almon IV Apr. 0, *35. 5. 
Ceylon," Apr. 1, '37. 0. Sabra Ann, 8 Oct. 10, '42. 7. Octa- 
via>Mar. 22. '45. 8. Edwin C., s Apr 11, '48. 0. Edward 
C., M Apr. 11, '48. 

3. Eleazer Rowe; 7 4. Martha Rowe; 7 5 Mary Rowe ;' 6. Eph- 
riam Rowe; 7 7 Asa Rowe f 8. Joanna; 7 ami !». Lucia Rowe. 7 

100. iv. Amos," Aug. 22, '76 (d. ) m. — Stearns; has no descendants. 
170. v. Moses, 8 Mar. .'», 78, is. III., m. Miss. Harris, fr. Lcwistoo, Mo. 
175. 171. vi. Joseph, 6 Mar. 12, '82, m. Mary Abbott. 

1"'J. vn. Lydia, 6 May 28, '84 (d.), m. Jesse Cross, of Andover, Mau. 
and bad — ■ 

1. Moses T. Cross, 7 m. 1833, Rebecca Staples, of Hanover, Mo., 
who d. Sept. 30, 1844. 2d, Caroline E. Smith, of ditto, and 
had— 1. Celestine," Feb. 10, 1834; 2. Anstress, 8 Mar. 25, 
'35 ; 3. Altbea Augusta/ Jan. 21, '39; 4. Abbie, 8 Nov. 10, 
'41 ; and 5. Erra, s Sept. 3. '55 ; 2. Aaron 7 twin br. to M. T. 
3. Abigail f 4. Lydia ; 7 5. Franklin ; 7 6. Jona f 7. Caroline. 
200. 173. viii. Eleazer, 8 Nov. 28, '80, m. Lydia Mason, 
ix. Sylvanus,' ; May 11, '89, d. yg. 
174. x. Asa, 1 ' June 15, '91, rs. Shawncetown, 111., m. — Gorham. 
xi. Cynthia, 'July 14, '93. XII. Adalinc, 6 Apr. 2, '97. 
171. 175. Joseph,' 1 in. Mary Abbot, dg. of Stephen A., of Concord, N. II., I. in 
J>. and had — 



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I. Deborah Adams/ Dee. 8, 1805, d. 1844, m. Leonard Whit- 

man and left no children. 
ii. Martha, 7 Nov. 12, 1*07, d. 1881. 
in. Mary/ Jly. 8, 1800, d. Aug. 1810. 

181. 170. iv. Almon/ Sept. 14, 1811, m. Phebo M. Buxton. 
177. v. Albert, 7 June 25, 1814. 

18G. 178. vi. Alfred, 7 June 25, 1814, m. Martha Stevens. 

193. 179. ( vii. Joseph Abbot/ May 29, 1817, m. Orinda L. Mason. 

204. 180. vi ii. Ozmon Mason/ June 29, 1819, m. Kosalba Chandler. 

176. 181. Almon Twitehell/ M. 1)., like many of New England's sons who 
have attained professional eminence and elevated positions in socie- 
ty, was brought up on a farm, and accustomed to manual labor. His 
early opportunities for the acquisition of an education were con-, 
fined to district schools of the humblest character and the shortest 
annual terms, seminaries of a higher order being then too remote 
and expensive for the limited means of his father. He seems there- 
fore to have early set about educating himself, so that at the age 
of 18 years he commenced teaching, and made it his annual winter 
vocation until he commenced the practice of medicine. In Apr. 
1837, he began the regular study of his profession with Dr. Kuel 
Barrows of Fryeburg, and continued with him for three years. In 
1840 he graduated at the Medical School of Brunswick, Me., and 
immediately commenced practice at Paris, Me., from whence, after 
three years of successful labor, he removed to Bethel, his na- 
tive place, where he now resides in the enjoyment of a wido 
practice and the peculiar confidence of his fellow-citizens. In 
1856 he was elected from the Co. of Oxford to a seat in the 
Senate of Me. He m. Jly., 1843, Phebe M. Buxton, dg. of Capt. 
Jeremiah B. of N. Yarmouth, and had — 

1. Alice G, M b. Jly. 18, 1844. 

2. Cornelia Buxton, H Sept. 10, 1845, died, 1S47. 

3. George M. 8 Sept. 17, 1847. 

4. Mary Jane, 8 Sept. 10, 1849. 

5. Edward Almon," Nov. 22, 1853 d. Apl. 1854. 

6. Anna Buxton," May 1, 1856. 

178. 186. Alfred Twitehell/ m. Martha Stevens, dg. of Ebenezer S.,ofSwe 
den, rs. B. had — 

1. Mary Elizabeth,* Apr. 27, 1840. 

2. Ozmon Mason," Sept. 2, 1842. 

3. Austin Frisbie," Apr. 13, 1845. 

4. Alfred Eugenc, M May 11, 1848. 

5. Horace Q. B., 8 Apr. 27, 1*51. 
G. Fanny Perly," Jan 27, 1 855. 

179. 193. Joseph A. Twitehell/ in. Orinda L. Mason, dg. of John M., of Oil- 

ead, rs. B, and had — 1. Albert S* Sep. 16, 1840; 2. Virgil V.* 

Aug. 27, 1842; 3. Wm, E* Aug. 17, 1844 ; 4. Charles E* Jly. 

29, 1848. » 

'80. 198. Ozmon M. Twitehell/ M. 1)., spent his minority with his father upon 

a farm, and 2 ys. afterwards at the Academy now established at B. In 1842 

he began the study of medicine with his br. Almon, with whom he remained 

until 1846, when he graduated at the Med. School in Hanover. Since then 

he has resided as a practitioner at Milan, N. II., sharing largely in the confi- 



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deoce and esteem <>f lier citizens, which thej have manifested in his repented 
election to the Legislature of N. II. He m. Rosalba Chandler, dg. ofHaatn 
C of M., and had, i. Milton Chandler," Jly 1850. 

Eleazer," s. in I,., served as an officer in the war of 1812, m. Lydia 
of Moses, II. of Dub., and b. Jlj. 21, 1751, m. Jly. J:i, 1S12. 
Susan, 1 in. Henry Tuttle, r. 15. 
Charlotte, 1 m. Samuel Walker, rs. B. 

W'm. Amoa/b. Au;'. 23, 1823, rs. :i shipwright st Boston, n. 
Rosanna McGratb, IV. the N. of Ireland, had 1. Wm. Eleazer f 
J, Margaret E ;' •'!, Lydia E f 1, ('/is. Woodbury^ 

Martin \ .in Buren/ rs. Bos., m. Sarah , 1856; 

Martha, 7 d. agd. 18. 
. .1 Jly. 15, 1834, in. Abigail Greenwood, b. Apl. 28, 1786, m. 
1806, d. 1854, dg. of Joshua ('<., jun, by wf. Abigail Bird, fr. 
Need., b. Feb. 22, 17(17, d. Aug. 9, 1830 ; and bad 
I. Klvira.'Apl. 25, 1809, d May 18, '45 um. 
ii. Elbertson,' Feb. 23, '11 (d.); in. Che, M. Adams, d. yg. 
J'» v . 210. iv. Charles Mansell Adams. 8 !). Feb. 22, 1819, m. Oct. 8, 1845, 
Eliza Fay Bliss, d^ Levi B., Esq., of Bos. by wf. Harriet 
Jeffs fr. Ulocester, rs. a trader iii Boston, had 1, Linette Fran- 
ce*, 1 Dec. 15, I849j 2, Cltarlcs Edwin, 7 Sep. -•"', l^.VJ; 3, 

Levi Eliss, 7 Feb. 1, 1856. 



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2G. 214. Peter Twitchell * Capt., b. June 13, 1761, (see p. 248) d. Nov. 18, 
1855, a. 94 ys. ."> mo., from injuries received in good health by being run over 
by a horse and vehicle. His wife, Amy Perry, d. Oct. 9, 1835. Capt. T., 
previous to bis removal to Me., kept a tavern at 8., served the town as an 

\--ossor, and bad the command of ber militia at tbe funeral of Washington. 
In 1816 be united with the Cong'l chb in B., with which he walked through 
life. He was of a philosophical turn of mind, and many years ago published 
the following Kiddle, which has not yet received a solution : — 
• The Earth and the Moon travel around the Sun. If they travel one way, 
every time they go around the Sun there will be one day more than the Earth 
revolves on its axis, and one Moon more than the Moon travels around the 
Earth. If they travel the other way, the Earth will revolve on its axis once 
more than we have days, and the Moon will travel around tlie Earth once 
more than we have Moons. 

Question. "Which way should they travel to have tbe extra day and extra 
Moon ? 
Besides his children named on p. 249, he bad 

ii. Jona., b. May 20, 1798, rs. um. at Bethel, Me. 

v. Julia, (p. 24i>) m. Hollica Greenwood, of B., Aug 25, 1818, 
had 1, Fanny E., Dec. 3, '20 ; 2, Aliemina P., Jly. 1, '23; 



JIG. vi. Jo! 



3, Harky E., Sep. 3, '25, d. dune 21, '27 ; 4, Hurley E '., 
Sep. 1, '27, d. Mav D>, '41 ; 5, Mia Ann li., dune JO. 
'30, d. Dec. 81, '32 ; 6, Geo. //., Aug. II, '33. 
hn Adams,'" b. Sept. 7, 17 ( .'S, m. Koxana Howe, June 17. 
1S23 ; rs. Bethel; a bouse carpenter ; had 1, Tho. Emlyn, 
May 15, 1824 ; rs. a wholesale merchant at Portland, Me. ; 
m. Dolly (i. Barker, June 1. '54 j had Frith Henry. 1 Nov. 
15, '55 ; 2, Mary Amanda, 7 Dec. 5, 1825, d. Apl. 6, '46; 



•54S 1 wit HE] I . 

3, Salome Greenwood, 7 Oct. 4, 1828, grad. at Female Semi- 
nary, at Bradford, is."),"); 4, Daniel Alphin 7 Feb. 25, 
1831; rs. a merch't at 15. ; 5, Roxana Althea, 1 Feb. 15 s , 
1836; 0,John Quincy Adams, 7 May is, is^s ; 7, Zyrfta 
Lucinda Frost,' Aug. 8, 1840. 
VII. Harriet,' 1 b. .Jane 1, 1805, m. Chs. W. Farwell. 
vin. Sural) Perry,' 1>. Sep. 6, 1811, m. Nov. 27. '34, Amasa Bean, 
of Bethel, had 1, Amy P. Perry, Oct. 29, ':>">; 1, Julia 
Ann (.' ., I'M). 28, '-'i7 ; 3, Sarah J. A., Sep. IG, '39; 4, 
Peter Twitchell, Dec. :5, '41 ; 5, Adelmer ./., Mar. lit, '11 } 
*;, /avow A'., Oct 12, '47 ; 7. Arthur /•;., ,)]y. 20, '50. 
221. iv. Eli Twitchell," Col., (p. 249) in. Dec. .">, 1822, Sopbrooia Bar- 
ker, 'i'_ r . nt' Dea. Samuel 15., of Bethel, and had 1, Edward 
Perry, 7 h. Aug. 17, 1823, d. Feb. 11, 1*2 1 ; 2, Aim Johnson? 
Nov. 12, '25, in. Jarvis Chapman- Oct, 17. '49, and had 1, 
Fordyce G., M Sep. 2, 1850, d. Feb. 2:5, '51 ; 2, Claranee 
E., 8 June 27, '51; ami:;, Adelaide Josephine, 8 Jly. 11, 
'53; :;, Edward Perry? 1'. Jly. is, 1^27; 4, 11'///. Parker, 
1). Oct. 1, 1829; 5, George Henry Greenwood 7 b. Mar. 2 1* 
1832; C, Chs. McLellen, 7 Jan. 11, 1834, d. Dec. 5, '34; 7 
Ellen Maria: Apl. I."), IS.'!;"); s, C/iS. Jenkins,' b. Nov. 8 
1838 ; !', Alice Amelia, 7 Mar. 2 1. Is41 ; 10, Fanny liar 
her, 7 Mar. 25, 1844, d. Nov. 21. '45; 11, Caroline Little, 
Feb. 21, 1S47. 
37. 202. Ezra," b. Nov. 24, 17s:5, m. Betsey Coffin, r. Bethel, had 
i. Daniel, 7 Mar. 5, lso:5, <1. Aug. !», ';;:; ; 
ii. Alphin/ Dec. 27, 1804, m. lloxanna A. Twitchell, July 5, '35, 
r B., had 1, Adelbert P: Dec. 1 !. '36 ; 2, Adeltha, s April 13, 
'40; :!, Amelia J.» Sept. 2. '42 ; 4, Adelia P.; May 7, '47, 
d. Feb., '4s ; :>, Mary Ella,* April 23, '49. 
in. Nancy/ Oct. 2, IOC, d. Oct. 21, 1826; 
iv. Cyntha, 7 Mar. 11, '09, in. John Russel, r. B. 
v. Abiah H./ April 27, '11, d. Dee. 5, '26 ; 
vi. Samuel/ Feb., and d. Mar., 1813 ; 

vii. Samuel 15./ A. M. and M. P., May 27, '16, d. July 25, '55, 
m. Sarah E. Swasey, of Wakefield . N. U., where he prac- 
tised medicine six years previous to his death ; 
VIII. Richard E., 7 Feb. 10, '19,8. in Portland, Me. ; 
ix. Betsey 0./ June 1, '21, in. Edward Godard, r. P. ; 
x. Lucien/ July 29, '23, d. Oct. 2, 'lit ; 
!'. 247. No. 2b.V. Julia Twitchell, d. Oct. 4, 1790, at Fram., bus. Wm. Tucker, 
d. July 27, 17«J7, at F. They bad 
i. Win. Tucker, Esq., b. Feb. 17, 17s7, rs. at Boston, a commis- 
sion merchant, in. Mary Ann Kirk by, b. at London, Eng., Oct. 
10, 1788, has the arms and Genealogy of the Tuckers from the 
reign of Henry I. ; m. Pec. 10, 1S0S, d. Nov. 5, 1848, at Bos- 
ton ; had 

1. Two sons, twins, b. and d. Oct. 23, 1809 ; 

2. Win. Kirkby, Oct. 1, 1810, d. on board the Bombay, 
Aug. 5, 1849, on bis return from Manilla to Bostons m. 
Emily .lane, who d. at Brooklyn, N. V., Oct. 2;!. 184G; 

3. Julia Ann, Aug. 4, and d. Dec. 12, 1812; 



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I Charles Loveland, Mar. 2, 1811, ra. Mary Gibbf, who d. 

Sept. 8, 1853 ; 

5. Mary Ann, Oct. 13, 1815, d. Jan. 1, 1H34 ; 

6. Elizabeth, Mav 3tt, 1H17 : 

7. Henry Wadsw'orth. Jan. 28, L819,d. Mar. 22, 1821 ; 

8. Sarah Maria, July 9, and d. Jan. 24, 1821 ; 
:•. Maria, April 15, and d. Aug. 2<>, ls-j:} ; 

10. Maria Henrietta, May 27, 1824, d. Jan. 14, 1831 ; 

11. Caroline Matilda, Aug. 81, 1826; 

12. Sarah Wadsworth. July 27, 1*28 ; 

13. Francis Henry, Feb. 28, 1^30; 

14. Edgar, April 24, 1831. 

30 283. Thaddeus,' June G, 1788, m. Suky Barker, 1813, r B., had 

i. Abigail B., 7 who m. Oct. 17, '35, Kob't G. Wiley, M. D. fr. 
Fryburg, Me., r. B., had 1, Leland R; June G, 1837, d. 
May 12, '30; 'J, J'hlenthias Clcaveland,* Feb. 21, '40; 3, 
Philelius Ltland* dan. 20, '43, d. Oct. 20, '50 ; 4. Goodwin 
Robert; Jan. 18, '46 ; 5, Thaddeus T.,* Jan. 10, '48, d. Oct. 
12, '50 ; G. Lawson Ruckminstcr,* May 26, '52, d. Jan. 8, '5G ; 
7, Mary Elizabeth* Jan. 28, '5G ; 
ii. Boxanna A, 7 Dec. 20, 1816, m. Alphin Twitcbell, r. B. ; 
III. Mary Elizabeth/ Jan. 1<>, 1821, m. Bev. David Carland, Sept. 

17, '49, fr. Newfield, Me., now pas. of 2d Cong. Ch., B. ; 
iv. Susannah B., 7 May 30, 1824, m. Bev. Javan K. Mason, of B , 
Mar. 7, '49, now pas. of a Cong. Ch. at Hampden, Me., had 
1, Fannie; Oct. 12, '51, d. Sept. 18, '54 ; 2, Herbert,* Mar. 
26, '55 ; 
v. Samuel B., r Mar. 16, 1820, m. Melvina A. Chapman, Dec. 11, 
'53, r. B., had Marion R.; Nov. 4, '55. 
4(1. 240. Nathan F., H Dea. and Capt., m. Harriet Hill, and 2d, Sarah J. Bur- 
bank, rs. B., had 
i. Harriet H, 7 by first wife; n. Nancy 7 , by 2d wife, m. Asa P. 
Knight ; m. Maynard, 7 um., rs. Boston ; iv. Somerville, 7 m. 
Adaline Farrington ; v. Ester A., (d.) ; to. Chester L., 7 um. ; 
vii. Anna F., 7 um. ; vin. Preston, 7 uni. ; ix. Nathan,' um. ; x. 
Fordice 7 ; xi. Sarah Emily. 7 
0. 251. Benoni " Twitchell 3 " was evidently a man of character and considera- 
tion, distinguished for courage, energy, and enterprise. He was 
one of the 30 grantees to whom Wm. Taylor, Peter Sergent, John 
Nelson, and John Danforth, heirs of Joseph Dudley, Wm.Stougbton, 
and Maj. llob't Thompson, tho original grantees of Oxford, convey- 
ed that grant July 8, 1713, on condition that they settled upon 
it within two years, the samo having been relinquished and forfeited 
by " the 30 French Protestant families whom they had brought 
over" and settled conditionally upon it. Jan. 14, 1722-3, he was 
•tyled on Oxford records Innholder ; and between Jan. 1, 1720-1, 
and April 15, 1740, he was largely engaged in the transfer of real 
estate in O. and vicinity. In 1727 he purchased of John Chan- 
dler, of Woodstock, 100 acres, containing a mansion house in 
Oxford village, which ho had previously owned, and which, May 
10, 1733, he, then living on Manchaug farm, near Oxford, sold to his 
son Seth, of the aforesaid place, for £40, and £120 of Seth's portion 



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oi the 100 acre?. lie became the proprietor of lands at Poquiog, 
now Athol, anil July 16, 174(», lor the tender love he bore towards 
bis son Jeremiah, gave him :i deed of lot No. 10, on the E. side of 
the river, and \V. side of a highway in P. " March 8, 17 H--.">, 
Benoni T.. of Thompson Parish, in Killingly, Ct., being l>\ Pi- 
vino Providence, engaged in the expedition against Cape Britton," 
made a " deed," or rather will, giving all his lands at Oxford, to 
daughters Abigail and Hannah, and after the deatli of bis wife, 
Hannah, all the household goods left to her, and all his "debts, 
money and dues" to Seth. He lived to return to Oxford, where, 
May Id, 1748, he acknowedged the above named deed. Suf. Deeds, 
P 27, p. 174 ; 39, 281 ; Wore. Deeds, L. 1, p. 221 ; 2,70: 2, 
369, 37, &c. II. had 
-•'-• '• Seth, 4 in. Dorothy Bishop. [will. 

'•'P "■ Jeremiah, 4 owned land at Athol, 1741, not named in the above 

III. Hannah, 4 in. Dana, and r. in Oxford in 1748. 

iv. Abigail, 4 m. -John Buship (pr. Bishop) of Attleboro'. 
'-•>l. Seth Twichell, 4 a husbandman, was of Thompson Parish, in Killing- 
ly, in 1717, where he purchased for £7 of Richard Morton, lot No. 
25 at Lyon's Hill, in the new town, Poquiog, (Athol,) on Miller's 
liver. Aug. 26, 1748, he bought for £365 O. T., of John Vin- 
ton, 70 acres in Dudley, bounded on the S. by Woodstock. lie 
subsequently lived in Sturbridge, and afterwards removed to Athol. 
He had 

Jeremy, 5 vi. Sally 5 , m. "Ward. 

Knos. 5 vii. Dolly,"' Pay. 

Benoni."' vm. Abigail, 5 m. Pay. 

Abner. ' 

Seth,' who in. Huldah Eaton, fr. New Salem; '2d, Phebo 
Goddard, r. Athol, had 

I. Wm., a who is. in Athol. 
ii. Francis, who rs. in A. 
in. Edward,' 1 by 1st wf., who rs. in Alab. 
iv. David Goddard, who d. at Athol. 
v. Seth, who rs. in A. 
VI. Chester, 1 ' who r. and d. in A. 
vii. Elvira,' 1 by 2d wf., who rs. in Winchendon. 
261. 2GG. Francis Twichell," ('apt., settled upon the homestead in Athol, where 
he now resides in the enjoyment of perfect health, in his 73d 
year. He m. Sally Fish, of A. and had 
-67. i. Sylvanus Twichell, who rs. a landlord at A. ; m. Masylva 

Barnard, has only Charles F. 
268. ii. Ginery Twichell, 7 Esq. b. Aug. 26, 1811, rs. Brookline. He 

was formerly engaged extensively in the forwarding business 
at Norwich, Ct., but has for years discharged the duties of 
Superintendent to the Boston & Worcester Kailroad with 
such vigilance, energy, and courtesy, as to command the en- 
tire confidence and secure the peculiar respect and gratitude 
of the public. Long may he continue in a station of such 
responsibility, lie m. Theolotia 15. Buggies, b. at Ilard- 
wich, Apl. 26, 1S20, dg. ofCapt. Creighton Ii. of Barre, and 
gr. grd. neice of the famous Brig. Gen R. of II., and had 



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i. Delia* Oct. 4, 1N17. II. Julia,' b. also Oct. 4, '47, 
d. Jan. 'J'), »51. hi. Callu* May lt>, '49 j d. July I, '50. 

iv. Frankf Dec. 20, '50; d. Feb. 18, '56? v. Edward 
Gineryf Jan. 1, '52 ; vi. Alfred Dwigktf Feb. .">, '.">:}, d. 
Sept. 16, '66. 
170. in. I'ri Twichell, 1 (d.) iii. Samantha Eaton, r. Athol, had 

i. .Vary, 8 and n. Caroline* d. yg. ; m. Ella*; iv. Charles'; 
v. Hettic*. 
17'J. iv. Francis, 1 m. Arramintha Barnard, rs. a landlord al A. 

v. Mary Ami, 7 d.) m. Clark El lis, of New Salem ; had 3 child. 
vi. Harriet, 7 died in 1827, a. 12 yean. 
17."{. vn. Amaziah, 1 rs. a landlord at Northboro', has 

i. Emma* \ n. Frank 6 ; in. Celia* ; iv. lizza* \ v. George*, 

vin. Lucinda, m. Crighton Rugglcs, of Lawrence, III., lias Calla*. 

17.'». i.\. Simeon Fish Twichell, 1 l>. July vJ7, 1827, rs. a landlord ai S. 

Fram., in. in 1H50 Lucinda F. Howard, dg. of Wm. II., of 

Winchester, N. II., had 

i. Kirk Albert* Jan. 21, lNo;>, d. Sept. 16, '52; n. Jennie 
Alice* April 2, '53. 

98i. \"iG. C'liarlcs Twitchell, 1 rs. Ashland, in. Joanna Cousins, had 

i. Maria, 7 May IN, lH.'jo, d. May 24, '32; ii. Edward Payton,' 
April 30, '32, rs. Cal. ; in. Justin Edwards, 1 Jan. 20, '35, at 
S., now memb. of Ainh. Col. ; iv. George H., 7 April 19, '45, 
at Hoi.; v. Abby L., 7 Jan. "J(>, '47, at Ash. 

•J."> 181. Eli Twitchell, 1 Esq. in early life removed to Bethel, on Andros- 
coggin R., Me., then an entire wilderness, with only ten white in- 
habitants. The place was still occupied by Indians. He was a 
man of genius, and the wants of the settlement drew it out. He 
became blacksmith, carpenter, cooper, watch and elock-maker, and 
manufacturer of all his own tools and of every article required by 
the farmer, mechanic or tradesman. There are still preserved in 
the family, many relics of his workmanship, among which arc a 
compass and chain. He imbibed the spirit of '76, and was among 
the first to resist British oppression in the field, as his noble father 
had been in the General Court. In the battle of Hunker Hill he 
received a wound in his arm, which always troubled him to the day 
of his death. He became a member of the first court of session* 
for Oxf. Co., and represented B. in the house, and ( >.\f. Co. in the 
senate of his State. He was of a kind, generous, charitable and 
forgiving spirit ; a man of daily fumily prayer, an efficient sup- 
porter of an evangelical ministry, and one of the pioneers in the 
cause of temperance. He inherited a strong constitution, which, 
by regular industry and strict temperance, he preserved to the age 
of almost S7 years. He d. Nov., is ir>. 

He in. Rhoda Leland, b. 1758, d. 1794, dg. of Wm. L M of Sher- 

bom, by wf. Jemima Daniels, (dg. of Joseph I), of Med way., by wf. 
Mary CJroec, and grd. dg. of Joseph 1)., and gr. grd.dg. of Joseph D., 
of Medfield, and gr. gr. grd. dg. of Joseph D., of If., by wf. Mary 
Fairbanks,) and grd. i]^. of Dea. Wm. Leland, of S., by wf. Me- 
hitabel Brcck, (dg. of John B. and grd. dg. of Thomas B., also grd. 
dg. of Capt. Joseph Morse, of S., by wf. Mehitabel Wood, dg. of 



352 TWITCHELL. 

Nicholas W.,the first plainer of S.,) and gr. grd. dg. of Dea. Ilope- 
still L., by wf. Patience Holbrook, (dg. of Thos. H., of S., by wf. 
Margt. Bowkcr fr. Weymouth, dg. of a Swede,) and gr. gr. grd. dg. 
of Henry Leland, of S., by wf. Margaret Badcock, and gr. gr. gr. 
grd. dg. of Hopestill Layland, the Puritan. He m. second, Lucy 
Segur, who died 1 8-1-1, and had by first wf. 

i. Julia Twitchell,* Jly 7, 1778, m. Barbour Bartlett, of Bethel, 
** Nov. 26, 1812, and had 

1. Julia Ann, 1 July 2, 1813, m. May, '42 Geo. E. Smith, a 
farmer of Hanover, Me., and had Henri/ B. 9 Aug. '43 ; 
John B. 9 Jan.,'41; Mary S. 9 June, '46 ; Ezra S. 9 Nov., 
'47 ; George 9 May, '49 ; Edwin Porter 9 Sept., T>0 ; Chs. 
Frost 9 Sept., '51. 

2. Eli Leland, 7 July 25, 1814, d. April, '36, was prepared 
for college, and a young man of great promise. 

3. Curatio Twitchell, 7 April, 1816, m. Jan., '39, Laura A. 
Presscy, of B., rs. on the home place of his grdf. T., had 
Eli L., 8 May, '42 ; James C., 8 April, '11 ; Frances Jane 9 
March, '46. 

4. Alison Barbour, 7 July 12, 1818, grad. at Bowdoin Col., 
Bruns., '12, road law, opened an office at Norway, where 
he practiced with great success, and for years served as 
one of the board of education for Oxf. Co. In '55, he re- 
moved to Boston, where he continues his professional la- 
bors. He m. June 18, 1845, Sarah E. Thompson, of Bruns- 
wick, Me., and had 1. Edward Leland 9 Oct. 21, 1847; 

2. Mary Eliza 9 April 12, 1854. 

5. Sylvanus Porter, 7 Feb. 1, 1820. d. Aug. 24, '23. 

6. Lucia Kimball, 7 June 7, 1821, m. Oct. '45 Isaac Adams, 
merchant of Rockton, 111., had Ella Cornelia* Sept., '48. 

7. Miranda Jane, 7 Nov. 14, 1822, d. Aug. 31, '23. 

8. Sylvanus Porter, 7 July 24, 1824, rs. unm., a merchant in 
Boston. 

9. Edwin Wallace, 7 Sept. 12, 1829, grad. '48 with distin- 
guished honors at Bowdoin Col., devoted himself to teach- 
ing, and d. Feb. 20, '55. j) 

10. Thomas Spencer, 7 Jan. 20, 1830, rs. a farmer at Bethel, 
m. Mar. 21, '53 Caroline P. Adams, of Bruns., and had 
1. A son, 8 Mar., '51, d. Aug., 54; 2. Lucia 9 June, '55 ; 

3. Isabella B. 9 Sept. '56. 

11. Jane Cornelia, 7 Nov. 13, 1831, d. July 21, '33. 
u. Lucia, 6 m. John Kimball, of Bethel, had 

1. Belinda, 7 m. Dea. Elbridgc Chapman, trader, of B. 

2. John Eli Leland, 7 M. D., rs. Saco, Me. 



43. 186. Cyrus Twitchell,* w. Eunice Belknap, fr. Dublin, b. Mar. 8, 17?,s. 
m. Jan. 16, 1801, d. April 4, 1856, rs. Milan, N. EL, had 
i. Ransom, 7 Oct. 31, 1801, m. Aug. 20, '24 Julia E. Swan, of 
Bethel, Me., had 1. Mehitabel S. 9 July 20, '25, in. Ormando 
Lary, of Milan, N. II. Dec. 29, '44, and had Ilanh E., 9 Mar. 
24, '46 ; Julia A., 9 Mar. 25, '49 ; Wilard B., 9 Oct. 29, '51 
Frank E., 9 Feb. 2, '54 ; Mary B., Oct. 14, '56. 2. Paulina 
A.? Sept. 1827, d. July 1, 1831; 3. Julia A. 9 Nov. 1829. 
d. July 3, '31; 4. Ransom T. 9 Jan. 16, '32 ; 5. Jonathan 



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C. S., 8 Jan. 7, '34 ; 6. Timothy A.,' May 10, 36 ; 7. O'Neil 
R., 8 Oct. 3, '38 ; 8. Clarinda £.," Feb. 2, '41 ; 9. Lucy A.' 
I >.•«•. 26, '46. 

II. Oilman, 7 Dec. 27, 1802, m. Lucy Harris, of Milan, Nov. 
14, 1831, had 1. Eunice B.* Nov. 8, •», d. Mar. 6, '52, 
m. Jacob E. Ellingwood, of M., Jan. '48, had Cynflia ('., 
Nov. 31, »49, Eunice M.,» Oct. 15*, '51 ; 2. Afford A," May 
28 '37: 3. Lucy A.* Mav 18, '40, m. Nov. 27, »66, Stephen 
P. Fuleom, of M. ; 4. Richard E.' May 20, '43 ; 5. Julia 
A 8 Dec. 20 '51. 

in. Ocorgc'sv April 18, 1*04, m. Emily Harvey, of Provi- 
dence, R. I., and 2d, Emily Skinner, of Philadelphia, rs. 1 ., had 
1. George S. 3 ; 2. Emily C l ; 3. Selden* j I. Marxela A. ; 
5. Oscar*. 

iv. Cyrus. T Aug. 10, 1805, d. Oct. 9, '06. 

v. Cyrus, 1 Mar. 26, 1807, d. April 7, '5 1, m. Rebecca B. Heath, 
of Harrington, R. I., Nov. 9, '36, had 1. Julia T., 8 June 17, 
•37, in. Horace C. Sawyer Nov. 3, '55; 2. Geo. M.,' Dec. 

12, '38. 

vi. Harvey, 1 Nov. 21, 1808, d. Feb. 16, 1814., 
vn Hannah B., 7 July 4, 1810, m. Nathan Bickford, of M., Sept. 

13, 1828, had 1. Sylbia F., 8 Mar. 4, »29, m. Larkin Petten- 
gill, of M., May 21, '49, had Alpheus W., 9 Aug. 26, '50, 
Auriler M.,» Nov. 28, '53, Oeo. P.,» May 23, '56 ; 2. Suliran 
T., 8 Dec. 27, '30, m. Susan M. Hamlin, of M., Sept. 10, '54 ; 

3. Charles P., 8 May 11, '33, m. Amanda A. Folsom, of M., 
Aug. 23, '54, had Han'h L. Jan. 13, '57 ; 4. Lucy AT., 8 Feb. 

4, '35, d. Nov. 18, '38; 5. Betsey A., B April 14, '38, m. 
Franklin Wheeler, of M., Mar. 6, '55, had Albert,* April 23, 
'56; 6. Nathati B.,* Jan. 29, '40; 7. Harlan P.* Sept. 21, 
'42 ; 8. Hannah S.f July 20, '45 ; 9. Adaline H., 8 July 4, 
'47 ; 10. Luclla S., 8 Jan. 23, '51, d. Oct. 22, '51 ; 11. Al- 
phonso B.* Feb. 21, '54. 

Wli. Adams, 7 Jan. 27, 1812, m. Lusylvia T. Bartlett, of Bethel, 
Me., Oct. 31, '43, had 1. Claudius A.," Mar. 25, '45; 2. Vir- 
tue T., 8 Nov. 5, '46; 3. Lois A., s May 31/48; 4. Helen 
AT., 8 Aug. 14, '50; 5. Cassias M. C,, 8 Oct. 12, '52. 
ix. Clayton, 7 Jan. 13. 1814, m. Mary Phipps, of M., had 1. Eli- 
jah P.," May 4, 1831, m. Frances A. Ellingwood, of M., 
• Sept. 16, '55, had II. Clayton, 9 Oct. 9, '56 ; 2. Cyrus," Aug. 
31, '40 ; 3. Mary," Sept. 9, '41 ; 4. Clayton,' June 2, '43, 
d. Mar. 18, '48 ; 5. Eudora* Aug. 8, '44 ; 6. Charles AT./ 
Dec. 28, '45 ; 7. Clayton, 3 Nov. 4, '47, drowned Mar. 17, 
'51 ; 8. Hazen C., 8 Dec. 15, '49. 
x. Lucy, 7 Nov. 15, 1815, d. Jly 5, '16 ; xi. Harvey, 7 2d, June 
21, '17, d. Mar. 21, '52; XII. Lucy, 7 2d, April 4, '21, d. 
Sept. 2, '23. 
I \ 1H7. Peter,* m. Hannah Belknap at Dublin, N. II. He s. in Bethel, Me., 
rm. to Pctcrboro', N. H. next to Swanzcy. He also r. at Mid- 
dlebury, Vt. and Saratoga, N. Y., where he d. He had I. Mel- 
vin 7 ; it. Calvin 7 ; III. Louisa 7 ; iv. Eliza 7 ; v. Winslow 7 ; 
vi. Pamclia 7 . 
16. 191. Timothy Adams, 6 m. and r. in Dublin, N. H., where he d. Feb. 
1816, leaving only a dg. 7 who m. and rs. in Hinsdale, N. H. 



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38, 192. Eli. 1 (s. of Ezra,) in. Feb. 13, 1807 Betsey Gould, b. Dec. 13, 1786, 
d. Mar. 24, 1821, dg. of Jona.G.of Military, Mass., and 2d, Abi- 
gail Russell, Nov. 21, 1822, who was b." Mar. 3, 1786, dg. of 
Jacob R. fr. Andover r r. a landlord and trader at Bethel, Me., 
but 20 ys. ago mi. to Rushville, N. Y., and is engaged in horti- 
culture and the meat trade- ; had 

I. Clarissa, 7 Mar. 22, 1M)8 at Bethel, in. Sept. 23, '27 Jesse 
P. Wilson, is. Topsham, Me., had 1. Frances J. 8 ; 2. Al- 
mini*; 3. Eliza A." .1. ; 4. Eveline" ; 5. Albion D** 
6. Henry C. 8 (d.) ; 7. Frederic //. 8 ; 8. George E.* 
u. Jona., 7 April 14, 1801), rs. Rushville, m. ab. '33 Hannah 
(Page) Steele, d. '51, 2d, Almena (Wiman) Gates, '55, 
had 1. Mary, d. '54, a. ab. 19 ; 2. Henry, d. '53, a. 16; 
'A. Eli, (d.); in. Almira, 7 Jan. 8, 1811, (d.|, m. Horace 
Wilson, had Ellen M., rs. Bath, Me. ; IV. Eli, 7 Aug. 6, 
1812 ; v. Freeman, 7 Mar. 20, 1814, m. and had 3 chd. ; 
VI. Betsey, 7 Jan. 28, 1816, d. April 3, 1818. 
VII. Nathan F., 7 b. Jan. 7 or 18, 1818, rs. Rochester, N. Y., a 
carpenter, m. Eliza Steele, dg. of Wm. S. of Notting- 
ham, N. H. and b. June 3, '18; had Royal C., 8 June 
18, '42 ; Henry C., 8 July 5, '44, d. Sept. 24, '45 ; Ori- 
son T/., s Nov. 14, '46; Samantha A.,* June 15, '52. 
viii. Ezra, 7 Sept. 10, 1819, d. Jan. 3, '20. 
tx. Leander, 7 Nov. 30, 1820, d. Aug. 19, '23. 
x. Philomela,' Oct. 25, 1823, d. Aug. 26, '37 ; bv 2d wf. 
xi. Wm. L., 7 M. D., h. Feb. 17, 1825, at Bethel, Me. The 
first fourteen years of his life were passed in his native 
town, in which time he was favored with the usual ad- 
vantages of common schools, and had the additional 
privilege of spending a few months at the Academy on 
Bethel Hill. In the fall of 1839 he removed, with his 
father's family, to Rushville, Yates Co., N. Y. The fol- 
lowing winter he commenced attending school at the 
academy of that place ; and, being extremely fond of 
study, soon began to cherish the idea of obtaining a 
liberal education ; and, as a consequence, he then, and ,' 
subsequently, whenever he had an opportunity to attend 
school, pursued a course of study preparatory to entering 
college. When about nineteen years old, an unfavorable 
combination of circumstances compelled him to relin- 
quish his hopes of entering college. However, in the 
spring of 1846, being then of age, he resolved to engage 
in the study of medicine ; and, in the fall of that year, 
he returned to his native State, and soon commenced his 
studies under the instructions of Dr. John D. Lincoln, of 
Brunswick, Me. In May of 1850, he graduated at the 
medical school in Brunswick, and in July of the same 
yeap went to California, where for three years he devoted 
most of his time to gold mining, attending to the practice 
of medicine only when he could not well avoid it. In 
July of 1853 he started on his return to the Atlantic 
States, and arrived in New York on the 10th of August. 
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Russell, only (laughter of Mr. Jacob Russell, of Rich- 
land, Oswego Co., N. Y. A part of the fall was spent 
in visiting triendi in western New York and in Muinc, 
mill for the remainder of (he time he was employed in a 
drug ntore in Brunswick, Me. About the first of Dccom- 
ber h" w < n t to New York, where he spent the winter, as 
;i member of the class at the medical college on Thir- 
teenth itn et, and in attendance upon clinical lecturei at 
Bellevue hospital. < >n the first of March, 1654, he moved 
to Benton Centre, Yates Co., N. Y., where he settled and 
engaged in the practice of his profession, and where lie 
-till continues to reside and practice at the present time, 

May 18th, 1857. 
xn. Betsey, Mar. 25, 1N27, d. July 26, '27. 
xiu. George Washington, June 16, 1838, m. April .30, '51 
Caroline E. Twitchell, dp of Renfew T., of R. 

xiv. Martha A., Aug. 13, 1N30. 

U>. 19^. Ephraim Twitched, 4 s. in Mendon, now Mil ford, m. 1752 his cousin. 
Patience Eames, b. May 5, 1728, dg. of (Jershom E. by W, 
Patience Twitchell, and had 

201. 199. i. Gcrsham,* July 17, 1754, d. agd ab. 70 ys., m. Mary . 

ii. Ephraim,* who r. Milf. and pr. Harrc, m. Lydia (pr. John- 
son , had 1. Lydia/ Feb. 2, 1770 ; 2. Mercy, Sept. 22, '73 ; 
3. Mary, Oct. I, '76; J. Olive, Mar. 14, '80, and pr. others. 

199. 201 » in-sham,* r. at Milford and had by wf. Mary who was b. Sept. 

•J*!. 17f>r>, and d. aged 86. They had 

i. Martin,' Jan. 18, 1779, d. Aug. 31, 1834, m. Eleanor Lamb 
Jan. 25, 1807, r. M., had 

I. Emmons,'' Nov. 6, 1807, who rs. ut Brookfield, *a gent. 
of enterprise, shrewdness and prosperity in business, re- 
spected for his morality and intelligence, and prompt 
public services ; m. Sarah Ann Draper, of B., Sept. 26, 
1832; and 2d, Jan. 7, \35, Adeline Wight, dg. of Alpheus 
W. of Sturb. by wf. Miriam Belknap, and grd. dg. of 
David W. by wf. Catharine Morse (see memorial of the 
Morses, p. 41), had 

I. Sarah Ann, 8 Sept. 23, \33, d. Oct. 23, '33 ; 2. Nancy 
Ann, 8 Nov. 18, '35; 3. Eleanor Maria, 8 Dec. 19, '38; 
1. Geo. Levins, 8 Dec. 31,' 10; 5. Julia Adeline,* Sept. 
I, 17. «!. Feb. 26, '53; 6. Emmons Wight,' July 21, 
'49? 7. Alice Evelina, 8 April I, *53 j 8. Emma Rice,' 
Dec. 3, '54, d. Aug. 13, '56. 

2. Otis, 1 June 10, 1809, rs. a landlord at B., m. Lydia 
( >lds, and 2d, Sarah W. Morris, had 

1. Sarah Ann," Feb. 6, '10; 2. Frances Amelia,* Jan. 

2, '47. 

3. 1 fairy Martin, 1 Feb. 21, 1829, rs. B. 
ii. Levi,* Sept. 12, 1780, d. agd. G2. 

in. Ella,* Mav 18, '83, r. urn. ;»t Milf. 

iv. Betsey, Sept. 18, 'n:>. 

v. Polly, Dec. 25, '90 (d), m. Nathaniel Paine. 

vt. (Jersham, Jan. 20, '95, r. Milf. 



